Are you a novice dry fly tyer? Improve your skills while incorporating traditional materials to tie three practical dry flies which float from low to high on the water; Renegade, Seven-Turn Sulfur Cripple and Skittering Caddis. This class will provide tips for wrapping hackle, forming parachute posts and creating deer hair wings, techniques that can be applied to many dry fly patterns.
This is NOT a beginner class – but if you can tie a Crackleback or Elk Hair Caddis and perform a whip finish you can take this class.
Students should bring their vise, basic tools, including a hair stacker, and 70 denier or 8/0 thread in olive or black; and tan or yellow. Materials to tie the fly will be provided.
NOTE - this class is in the Commercial Bldg, Rm. C-3 (up the hill from the main building)
Susan Parsons is a retired pathologist who lives in Lakeview, Arkansas and has been fly fishing and tying for seventeen years. She has earned the Fly Fishers International Bronze and Silver Tying Skills Awards and has won several categories of the Sowbug Roundup Fly Tying contest. She serves on the Board of Directors of North Arkansas Fly Fishers and regularly writes articles for the NAFF and FFI Women Connect newsletters. Susan truly enjoys spending time at her vise developing her skills and discovering techniques to tie practical fishing flies.
The class has a $20 fee and is limited to 8 people. REGISTRATION is REQUIRED.