Fly Tying Mondays Schedule

 Hi Everyone!

We are set up at City Chapel at a large gathering space. City Chapel was the old Moose Hall. It is just east of the new Petro Can at the bottom of the north hill off of Gaetz Avenue.We have access to both tables and chairs. We will set up at 6 pm and our tying sessions will be 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. We ask that you contribute $5 to help offset the costs of the tying materials for the evening!

New members are welcome of any fly tying skill level

Bring the Following:

• tying vice

•scissors

• bobbin with basic thread colours (black, olive, red, etc)

• whip finishing tool

•hair stacker

•dubbing twister

•crazy glue and or UV resin

We will need other tools on occasion. I will have extra tools that we can share.

City Chapel is right on the corner

I am looking for presenters for fly tying. You need not be an expert, just willing to show us how to tie a fly or two!

Here are the dates for Fly Tying Mondays:

November 23rd-Bob Vanderwater- leeches/Slumpbusters

November 30th-Doug Pullan- Honouring Joan Wulff's 100th birthday- tying Royal Wulffs/Grey Wulffs

December 7th-Bob Vanderwater-Lance Egan's-Blow Torches

December 14th-Dr. Bill Young

December 21st-Bob Vanderwater

Christmas Break

January 4th-Bob Vanderwater

January 11th-Rick Miyauchi-Stillwater observations/water boatman

January 18th-

January 25th

February 1st

February 8th-Doug Pullan-Klinkhammers

February 15th Family Day -No Fly Tying

February 22 Rick Miyauchi-Caddis

March 1st-Garnet Clews-river flies

March 8th

March 15th

March 29th

Fly Tying Mondays Start November 23rd at City Chapel (Old Moose Hall)

Hi Everyone!

Well wintery weather has reminded everyone that Fly Tying Mondays will be getting going right away! Thanks to Jon Spijksma we will be having our tying evenings at City Chapel. It is the old Moose Hall behind Canadian Tire at the bottom of the North Hill. I will post a map shortly! We will continue to run our sessions from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. I will post a map and schedule very soon!

I am looking for guest tyers to share a fly or two for an evening! Please let me know if you would be kind enough to run a session!

Dust off your tying tools. We will get started on Monday November 23rd!

 

Long Shadows and Frigid Water Temperatures

Karen and I were able to get out for 6 hours today! We were supposed to be in a meeting today that was cancelled. All our gear is in the garage and it can be loaded into the car in just 5 minutes. We checked the weather forecast and were quite shocked to see the low last night was close to -10C in places. Burr. I wonder what the water temperatures are going to be? We decided top head east of Red Deer. We didn't arrive until late morning. That was perfect because the air temperature was just above freezing. As we walked to the water we laughed at our long shadows. The sun is now quite low on the horizon as we head towards the shortest daylight of the year. We also do not shift back to standard time this year in Alberta. That will make mornings rather dark. 

Well the sounder told us that the water temperature is just above 40F. That is cold. There was not a lot of activity in the water either. Eventually I caught 2 beautiful tiger trout on Tokaryk 2.0s. Followed by several browns. Karen tangled with mostly rainbows today. We downsized our Tokaryks today to size 12, balanced. That seemed to make a difference. Stripping flashbacks, and leeches got no action for me today. Fly fishing in less than 10 feet of water is where we found feeding trout!

Keep in mind that some bodies of water will turn over soon! Not all will. Once the top layer of water gets to about 38F, it is more dense than the water below and the water will mix or turn over. At times, wind will help with this process too!

Karen and I wondered if today was our last stillwater day of the year. I hope not! Get your warm winter jacket on and get out one last time!

Get your fly tying gear dusted off. Fly Tying Mondays will be gearing up for the third Monday in November! More details soon!

Wow that is cccold water!