Success!

It was a sad day when we lost Evan Ritchie, one of the founding members of our fly tying group. Tonight we had a massive fly tying materials give away. The fly tying materials were Evan's. Doug, Karen and I packed up all of the fly tying materials and brought them to our tying place. Once there, Adam organized all the tying material. That took a lot of time! After getting the word out, the big day arrived. We had a tremendous turn out to say the least! I would estimate that 85% of the fly tying material went out the door. That made me smile. There is going to be a bit of "Evan" in all of our tying areas!

...and we as a group, donated almost $1200 to Freshwater Conservation Canada on behalf of the Ritchie family!

Next week, Rick Miyauchi is our guest tyer. We will be examining how to add wing pads to chironomids. It will be an excellent tying session. Rick asks everyone to bring a black and red sharpie, UTC black thread, UTC 140 black thread and rusty brown UTC 70 thread. Also, bring your favourite thin resin and UV light (e.g. solarez).  I will bring extra of all the things Rick wanted you to bring for next tying session just in case you cannot locate the above items. This will be a very educational tying session. 

See you next week!

 

Getting Set Up for the BIG Fly Tying Material Giveaway on Monday January 12th starting at 5:30 pm at Reliance Oilfield Services learning Centre

Adam has started organizing all of the give away tying material from Evan Ritchie's tying area! The massive amount of tying material is all free. Please come and help yourself. Bring your tying friends. Bring shopping bags to carry all of your tying material home!

....please make a donation to Freshwater Conservation Canada on behalf of the Ritchie Family!

 

The Great Fly Tying Materials Give Away Starts on Monday January 12th at 5:30 pm

 This is going to be epic and you do not want to miss this event!

Monday January 12th starting at 5:30 pm at Reliance Oilfield Services Learning Centre!

Evan Ritchie was one of the founders of our fly tying club! Sadly we lost Evan a year and a half ago. His basement was full of fly tying material that he gathered, sold and used for the last 50 years. Hooks, hackle, dubbing, feathers, tools, and so much more.

So far we have two truckloads of tying material. Yep two truck loads.

We are giving it all away but we are asking everyone to make an appropriate donation to Freshwater Conservation Canada (previously Trout Unlimited Canada) when you pick up the tying material. 

Bring shopping bags (several) and you are welcome to take what you want! We want it all gone!

If there is time after, we will pack the material up and have a continuation of our pheasant tail workshop.

Our first priority is to give away the material to our club members first!