Only a few scheduled Saturday demos left! Stop by this Saturday for James Ushiyama, who will be tying his favorite patterns.
James has been a guest tyer at local TU tying expos, and we are looking forward to having him here at Elkhorn.
Elkhorn hosts a guest tyer each Saturday at 10AM all winter, starting in September and through April and beyond. It’s free, and all are welcome. Drop by for coffee and fly tying and fishing talk!
Phil Iwane
Phil is an outstanding tyer of the smaller sizes so important to us on the tailwaters of the front range. Join us Saturday when he demonstrates his “No Mercy” midge, and shows us how to get that extended body that turns your Blue Winged Olive dry into a fish magnet.
This year he has a bonus for us – he will demonstrate a useful dropper rig for nymphs in both rivers and stillwaters.
Click here for a preview of Phil’s Nymping Rig illustrated.
And recipes, with color images Page 1, Page 2
Elkhorn hosts a guest tyer each Saturday at 10AM all winter, starting in September and through April and beyond. It’s free, and all are welcome. Drop by for coffee and fly tying and fishing talk!
DEER HAIR BASS BUG BASICS
-STACKING, SPINNING AND WORKING WITH HAIR
Participant cost: $175.00 Max participants: 4-6
Dates: SESSION 1 -MAR 26 4:30 to 7:30
SESSION 2 – April 2 4:30 to 7:30
To reserve a spot, call Elkhorn Flyshop at 970-227-4707
This multi part course will be aimed at taking the student through the basics of working with different types of hair in order to tie a variety of useful patterns for everything from trout streamers to bass bugs.
Each participant will be taught the following skills
Session 1
Selecting hair by type/species
Hair selection- appropriate application for each hair type
Hooks-how and when each hook type should be used
Tools-bobbins, hair stackers, scissors, hair packers, razor blades and more will be covered. The pros and cons for each style/brand as well as safely using them to get max results.
Threads-selecting the best thread for each type of hair and why
Weed guards-materials choices and how to appropriately attach multiple styles.
Foul guards-cover multiple styles and placement for use in tails
Tying steps-basic spinning, stacking and packing skills to culminte in the production of one to two basic hair bass bugs.
Session 2
Building on session 1 skills and adding the following
Building a dense deer bass bug-step by step in two colors
Stripes-how to both spin a stripe of hair to build a banded bug and how to stack hair to create a banded bass bug
Spots-how to insert spots of color in any place from sides to belly to spots within spots
blending/mottling-this covers how to fold together colors of hair to create shaded areas/spots
Shaping-the use of a double edge razor blade to cut various shapes of heads and bodies.
Burning-cautery tool will be used in order to make sockets for items such as eyes and so on
Legs-we will cover how to thread legs through a body once it’s finished and how to apply them during the stacking/spinning process.
Participants will need to provide the following items for this course
Vise, basic tying tools, hair scissors, 200 denier gel spun tying thread, basic 140 denier white tying thread, deer hair packer-cohen fugly packer jr or dyna king packer
Instructor will provide the following items for the course
Deer body hair, deer belly hair, samples of alternate hair types, handout, cautery tool to share
Weed guard material, glue, razor blades, hair stackers
This Saturday we welcome back Jake Ruthven, our annual reminder of how fast time flies! Seems not that long ago he was just a talented kid promoting a high school flyfishing club! Now, he’s a talented young adult, with a pile of credentials, from magazines to flyshows and patterns in books like Modern Terrestrials.
This Saturday is a perfect time to see how Jake has expanded his tying talents.
Elkhorn hosts a guest tyer each Saturday at 10AM all winter, starting in September and through April and beyond. It’s free, and all are welcome. Drop by for coffee and fly tying and fishing talk!
There won’t be a recipe sheet for Mark’s tying demo. He never knows what he’s going to tie until the director yells “Action!”
Instead, we are going to play Mark McMillan Bingo. Download a playing card here.
Elkhorn hosts a guest tyer each Saturday at 10AM all winter, starting in September, running through April. Drop by for a coffee and tying and fishing talk!
The term “innovative” is insufficient to describe Mark’s tying. He’s talented and accomplished with modern patterns, but just can’t limit himself to coloring between the lines. He finds materials anywhere – JoAnne’s, WalMart, roadsides, and probably even an auto parts store.
Join us on Saturday for the William Wallace of fly tying!
Big, Big Brookie
Download Jim Rose Demo recipes 010717
Jim is a northern Colorado/southern Wyoming veteran with a world of experience fishing these waters. You may remember his previous demo featuring “Bob’s Average Nymph”, one of my top five favorite fly names. This season he will be tying distinguished flies from his history figuring out the North Platte:
“These flies include several of my old favorites from decades of fishing the upper North Platte in Wyoming and a couple of excellent, lesser known patterns for Front Range streams. The old favorites are my variations on some classic patterns that don’t get used much today. I threw the rainbow smelt in for fun. It’s a great fly for really big brook trout in the Nipigon River, where the world record brook trout was caught.”
Eric Pettine
Join us this Saturday! Eric will by tying dry flies, from classics dating back a hundred years to modern patterns.
Eric is a down to earth type of fly fishermen who makes it a point to spread the gospel of fly fishing through his story telling and demonstrations in a light hearted and humorous manner. Don’t be fooled – this Fort Collins resident is one of the most recognized names in the fly fishing industry not only for his fly pattern designs but for the many books he has written on destination fly fishing, fly tying and fly fishing tactics. He is a Signature Fly designer for Umpqua Feather Merchants, has been a demonstration tyer and presenter at the Denver Fly Fishing Show, West Denver TU Fly Tying Clinic and has presented programs on fly fishing and fly tying throughout the United States. His patterns have appeared in Rick Takahashi’s books “Modern Midges” and “Modern Terrestrials”
Elkhorn Flyshop presents a fly tying demonstration each Saturday at 10AM, from September through at least April, featuring some of the most talented and notable tyers in Northern Colorado. It’s free! Join us for fresh coffee, a donut or cookie, and some amazing demonstration tying.
It’s open to the public. The speaker is Robert Younghanz – The Bug Guy. (Fly fishermen should never pass up a chance to listen to an entomologist!) It starts with a social half hour beginning at 6:30 PM, featuring a beverage and probably a snack, a live demonstration fly tyer, and an opportunity to join Trout Unlimited for a measly $20!
Follow the link to the website for more information and to learn about this organization!