Saturday, February 2, 2019
Woven Dragonfly Nymph
Pale Morning Dun Parachute
Want to push your tying skills to a high level, open up a bunch of fascinating new tying possiblilities (and spend a day of fun and discovery tying flies)?
If your answer is yes, here’s your chance.
In this workshop, Skip Morris—author of Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple II, Advanced Techniques; Tying Foam Flies; The Art of Tying the Nymph and several other fly-tying books (and a couple of hundred tying articles in the magazines)—will teach you how to tame those troublesome techniques of trout-fly tying that create so many deadly and intriguing fly patterns: making parachute hackles; spinning and shaping deer hair; using dubbing loops to create durable, shaggy fly bodies and durable splayed insect legs; weaving fly bodies. . . and there’ll be more.
You’ll get a handout with the fly dressings. You’ll also leave with a fly Skip tied.
The techniques you’ll learn in this clinic will serve you for a lifetime of tying great fly patterns.
Number of attendees is limited—call the shop now
to reserve your spot.
At the end of the clinic, Skip will present you with a gift:
a fly he tied.
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Actually, it's been back in print since November 2017—but after running out of print for two years it's now available again. That's exciting, right?
Skip's been fishing trout lakes since before he was a teenager, and that was a long time ago. Fisheries biologist Brian Chan is a legend for his understanding of trout-lake fishing. He's also a pioneer of Chironomid-fishing, with a floating line, a deep fly, and a strike indicator—the approach that today's sharpest lake fishers use more than any other.
Morris & Chan will teach you Chironomid fishing, the countdown method, trolling, how to time and catch rising trout, how to properly make up rigs of all sorts, all about the insects and other creatures trout eat in lakes and provide the flies that imitate them and those flies' patterns (along with closeup color photos, of course), about seasons and the effects of water temperature, and more, and more, and even more—this book is packed with information.
And that information is organized, so it's easy to absorb and use.
And the book is simply fun to read—clear, straightforward language, written to be enjoyed.
There's even a chapter that takes you out on a lake for a day, shows you how all the concepts and information play out in actual fishing.
You'll learn all about fishing trout lakes in Morris & Chan. And the learning will be fun.
Click here for an inside look at
Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes, and
to buy your copy...
Fly tying and fly fishing are equal parts fun, art, information, and fascination. Whatever tips and lessons Skip has learned at the vise or by the stream, you'll find them here.
We are Skip Morris, the down-to-earth author of eighteen books on tying flies and fly fishing (including the best-selling beginner's book, Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple), and
Carol Ann Morris, whose artful photography and detailed watercolors have been published in
major fly fishing magazines (ie, Gray's Sporting Journal, Fly Fishing & Tying Journal, Yale Angler's Journal, and others), and also in Skip's books and articles.
We're a husband-and-wife team who've been fishing together for over twenty years, and we love sharing our passion for fly fishing.
We'll provide you with clear and simple instruction to make your journey into this sport fun and informative.
If you want to learn how to tie the Turck Tarantula, you'll find instructions here. The Miracle Midge? It's here too.
So are the Articulated Leech and the Hackled Skip Nymph.
All are effective, intriguing flies, and there are many more.
Every tying step is explained with clear and simple instruction through detailed text and up-close-and-personal photographs, and that makes tying these flies easy to learn.
There is also instruction on how to use big attractor flies to motivate large trout to strike, how to catch salmon off of Washington's
wild coast, and how to work chironomid-pupa imitations deep in a lake where big trout live.
There are many other techniques we'll share based on our experience on the water, and these tips will help you hook
more fish and have more fun doing it.
Get an inside look at the secrets of this amazing sport, and find out more about the intriguing world of fly tying and fly fishing.
The information offered here gives you the chance to learn new skills and
enjoy yourself as you go.
The fly fishing and tying article links below (and in the left-hand navigation column) will take you to previously-published magazine articles (most of them written by Skip, and a few written by Carol).
These informational pieces span 25 years.
Other links take you to information about Skip's books, fly designs, fly tying lessons, talks and presentations, and the on-line magazine HookedNow (now published as two books by Stackpole, November 2014), that he contributed to (along with fellow fly-fishing writers Dave Hughes and Rick Hafele).
Would you like to contact Skip or Carol to do a talk for your
club meeting, conference, banquet, conclave, or sportsman's show?
For a list of Skip's Programs, click here:
For a list of Skip's fly tying clinics, click here:
Carol gives a 50-minute presentation on photography called
"Fly Fishing Photography 101: How to Capture What You See."
She'll provide more details on request.
Use the "Contact Us" form, or the "Contact us here" link above to get in touch with
Carol about her talk.
Check out Carol's Etsy store, CarolAMorrisFlyFish for original gifts for the fly fisher: