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2007 Flytying Archive

03-31-07 - Joe Calcavecchia taught Saturday's jamboree class how to tie two striper flies. Joe has tied commercially for us for years and has tied thousands of our saltwater flies. Joe taught his class how to tie a white Joe's Bunny Fly and a chartreuse and white Big Eyed Deceiver. Remember that if you are signed up for Wayne Bickford's atlantic salmon fly class that it has been moved to Saturday April 14th due to our Open House April 7th. There are still open spots left remaining for Wayne's class, contact us by email or telephone to reserve a seat.

03-24-07 - Travis Johnson was our featured tyer last Saturday. Travis is well known throughout this area for his outspoken advocacy in helping expand and protect our local fisheries in Maine and New Hampshire.  Travis taught a full class how to tie three of his favorite trout and landlocked flies. Travis tied a bead/cone headed woolly bugger, an olive leach, and a simple little caddis larvae.  Next week, commercial tyer Joe Calcavechiaa will be tying a few striper flies.  We have only a couple spots left remaining for this class, so if you are interested, please call, email or stop in as soon as possible to reserve a seat.
Tom G.

03-17-07 - Captain Dave Beattie taught today's class how to tie some of his favorite flies for targeting baby bluefin tuna. These flies have also been proven to be successful for catching striped bass. Dave guides locally for striped bass, bluefish, and sharks. He has had much success when targeting baby bluefin on a fly and to date has landed them up to 80 lbs.
Jim

03-10-07 - Jeff Faulkner taught our jamboree class again.  He tied four sand eel variations that have been found to be effective for striped bass, blues, false albacore, bonito and even sea-run trout. Next week Captain Dave Beattie will be tying bluefin tuna patterns. Seats are still open for this class, contact us as soon as possible to reserve a spot if you are interested.

03-03-07 - Kevin McKay was our class instructor today. Kevin is a guide who focuses primarily on smallmouth bass in the Penobscot River and surrounding area.  As many of you know, Kevin is also the creator of www.maineflyfish.com a website devoted to fly fishing in Maine.  Kevin is a great guy and the best guide I have ever had.  He demonstrated to the class how to tie the following flies; chartreuse bonefish slider, red and yellow Clouser minnow and a black Chernobyl ant.

02-24-07 - Jeff Faulkner taught several striper flies in class today.  He tied a herring grocery fly, a white snake fly variation (hamster) and a black flat wing eel.  As many of you probably know, Jeff is a commercial tyer for the shop and can occasionally be found behind the counter here or out guiding for us. Jeff and his dog Chester put a lot of time on the water and these flies are some of his most productive.  Chester approves of them too.

02-17-07 - Wayne Bickford taught a full class how to tie three of his favorite streamer flies. He tied a 9-3 feather wing streamer, and two marabous; an Adie's Hat and a Peacock Ghost. The 9-3 is an old favorite used by many throughout the Rangeley region and beyond. The Adie's Hat is a variation of a Montreal streamer substituting a white marabou wing with a fluorescent blue one.  The peacock ghost is a black ghost with a twist, peacock herl used as a body and a red throat and tail instead of yellow.   Next week, Jeff Faulkner will be teaching a full class how to tie striper flies.
Classes are filling up fast so if you would like to reserve a spot, please contact us as soon as possible.

March 3rd-Smallmouth flies for the Penobscot with Kevin McKay

March 10th-Striper flies with Jeff Faulkner

March 17th-Bluefin Tuna flies with Dave Beattie

March 24th-Trout flies with Travis JohnsonFULL

March 31st-Striper flies with Joe Calcavechiaa

April 14th-Atlantic Salmon flies with Wayne Bickford

02-10-07 - Saturday's tyer was again, Tom Cormier. The regulars at the Jamborees have started calling him "Professor Tom" because of all the classes he's been teaching lately.  Tom taught a full class to tie two of our favorite striper flies, a guitar minnow and a white gurgler. Next week, Wayne Bickford will be teaching the class a couple of Maine streamers that are usually found in his boxes.
Tom G.

02-05-07 - Yesterday we hosted Kevin McKay and his friends from www.maineflyfish.com forum for their second annual Tie and Lie day. Jim Bernstein instructed the festive group on how to tie mini guitar minnows, dink poppers, and Dave Skoks Pflounder fly. It was great to spend a cold February Sunday tying with kindred souls.

02-03-07 - Saturday's tyer was our very own Tom Cormier. Tom has been fishing steelhead for three years and uses some very unique patterns.  He had the group tie 6 of his favorites; a Jim Juan Worm, Viagra Caddis, Sparkle Maggot, "Red Head", Oregon Cheese Glo Bug, and Egg Sucking Pheasant Tail.

01-27-07 - Tom Cormier taught our class how to tie the RM soft short "Lobster Fly" yesterday. John Kelleher was unable to teach due to exigent circumstances and Tom did an excellent job filling in. It is a difficult fly to tie, and some people had a little trouble mastering it, but all flies came out looking good.

01-20-07 - "Young" Tom Gagnon was our featured tier / instructor in todays fly tying jamboree. For the past few years Tom has been tying flies commercially for our shop. On most weekends during the winter he can be found at our shops tying bench turning out some beautiful creations. Tom now ties the majority of our custom ordered flies. He has been tying flies and fly fishing since he was thirteen years old and although he is only 20 years old, his knowledge of tying materials, patterns, and creative fly tying is well beyond his years. He recently achieved fame for his recent creation of the infamous Turd Fly.

01-13-07 - Eric Wallace was our featured tyer again this week. Eric taught the class to tie his versions of the Toad, a fly made famous by Andy Mills in the tarpon movie "Chasing Silver".

01-06-07 - Captain Eric Wallace was our featured tier / instructor today. Eric spends his summers guiding for striped bass in the Casco Bay area of Maine and his winters guiding in the Florida Keys for tarpon, permit, bonefish, barracuda, and snook.  Today Eric taught a full class how to tie some of his favorite and most successful version of flatwings. Several of the students came to me after the class and gave Eric high praise by saying, "I would love to do a guided trip with that guy".

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