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Deep Dive into Fly Tying Techniques with Al Ritt

Date and Time

Friday, March 27, 2026, 12:30 PM until 4:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada) (UTC-06:00)

Location

Baxter County Fairgrounds
Commercial Bldg, Rm C-3
1507 Fairgrounds Drive
Mountain Home, AR  
USA

Event Contact(s)

Patty Lueken

Category

Sowbug Roundup

Registration Info

Registration is closed - Event is full
Payment In Full In Advance Only

Capacity

8 Total Slots
Event is full - Waitlist available

About this event

A great opportunity to learn new fly tying techniques from an expert - Al Ritt. Techniques and materials will be demonstrated while tying a classic - the Parachute Adams multiple ways. No better way to cement new techniques into your tying!

The class is limited to 8 students. The students should bring their own vise, tying tools and 70 denier black thread. This is NOT a beginner class, but if you can tie a woolly bugger, you can take take this class.

NOTE - this class is in the Commercial Bldg, Rm. C-3 (up the hill from the main building)

Al has fished as long as he can remember and has been fascinated with flies for almost as long.  Growing up in southern Michigan he fished primarily for warm water species but remembers feeling magic in trout and trout flies. Al recalls making “flies” including forming his own “hooks” out of pipe cleaners. He took his first formal tying class in 1983 after moving to California. Since then, he’s tied flies and fly fished for trout, grayling, bass, pike, panfish, catfish, carp, steelhead, salmon, bonefish, permit, snook, tarpon, redfish and other species.