Fly Fishing School
Green Country Flyfishers have been contacting an annual Fly Fishing school since 1980's.
The School introduces both trout and warm water fly fishing and fly tying. No experience is required as this is an introductory school. The school covers fly fishing equipment, knots, reading the water, fishing techniques, fly casting, and fly tying. Each session includes a short presentation on fly fishing followed by a fly tying lesson. A student will have learned 6 fly patterns by the end of the school.
The only cost for students are for materials used in the class.
The 2008 class finished on March 13th with the cast lessons. If you are interested in learning to fly fish or tie flies the GCF has a monthly fly tying session on the third Thursday where new members are tutored in the art of fly tying. Anyone interested in learning is welcome at these sessions.
Contact: Bobby Donnell
This year's students working on tying the Adams dry fly
Green Country Fly Tying
School 2008
Preliminary Schedule subject to change
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Date |
Topic |
Activities |
Objectives |
Fly |
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Feb. 5 |
Met at
Arvest Bank 6:30 – 7:00 |
Introductions with |
Cover
outline and introduce the club |
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Feb. 7 |
Basic
Hooks And
materials |
Set up
equipment |
Add tail, weight, feather, chenille Finishing knot |
Wooly
Bugger |
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Feb. 12 |
Fishing
Strategies Warm |
Show
beads and the variety |
Add
dubbing, ribbing, wing case |
Hair’s ear |
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Feb. 19 |
Fish
foods |
Quick
outline of various flies and names |
Feather as dubbing, bead head |
Pheasant
Tail Nymph |
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Feb. 21 |
Rods and
reels with Gene Holland |
Q &
A on the various weights of rods |
Hair wing dry hackle |
Dry Fly
Elk Hair Caddis |
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Feb. 26 |
Knots
with Bob Cunningham |
Tie the
basic knots |
Feather wing and front hackle |
Dry Fly
Adams |
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Feb. 28 |
Fishing Strategies
Cold |
buck hair and eyes |
dumbbell eye |
Clouser |
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March. 4 |
Meet @
Arvest Where to fish |
Go to
the back of the bank and tie with foam |
Add foam, Tie in legs |
Foam
bugs |
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March 6 |
safety
and aux. equipment |
Give a hand out with a recipe for a zebra midge |
Test ability to tie on own |
Zebra
midge |
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March 11
& 13 |
Casting at the Dewey Girls Gym with Certified Casting Instructor |
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