Fly Tiers
We had 103 fly tiers on our table assignments list. They did a fantastic job of educating people on the art of tying flies. When you look at patterns tied by members of the Northwest Atlantic Salmon Fly Tying Guild you must agree they are works of art. However, every style of fly pattern from the most complex to the simplest was represented. People who came to the Washington Fly Fishing Fair learned to tie new and traditional patterns, use new and old materials even how to use the patterns to catch their favorite fish. Most people also went away with a sample to copy (except for the full dress salmon flies that took hours to tie).
Sam Matalone photographed many of the flies tie at the Fair and put them
on his website. You can take a look at them but clicking on the following
link:
Click Here
(Note: There is no copy protection on these files so they can be downloaded.
Please do not use any of these pictures for commercial use unless you have
written permission from me. Sam
Matalone The
pictures make great screen savers or background images on your computers.
All these tiers had somebody in front of them, but the distance between them was too much for web use so many of the viewers were cropped out. Most of these picturres were taken during the fair. However, some were added from last year's Fly Tying Conclave and other shows to include some of the tiers who were not photographed during the fair. Picture credits: Bob Bates, Dick Lang, Mike Clancy, Pat Herdt and Harry Calhoun.
An overview of one of the demonstration tying areas
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 Gary Barnes |
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 Bob Bates |
 Al Beatty |
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 Danny Beatty |
 Gretchen Beatty |
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 Pat Blackwell |
 Steve Brocco |
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 Bruce Clark |
 Chuck Collins |
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 Jack Cook |
 Aaron Culley |
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 Randy Diefert |
 Paul Dieter |
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 Vickie Eagle Elk |
 Dan Ferguson |
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 James Ferguson |
 Jim Fisher |
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 Bud Frasca |
 Tim Gavin |
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Joe Fitzpatric and Paul Jacobsen were tying tube
flies, and they had a water tank set up between them. |
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 Joe Fitzpatrick |
 Paul Jacobsen |
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 Moving water made the tube fly wiggle |
 Leonard Gross |
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 Rockwell Hammond Jr |
 Mike Hardouin |
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 Pat Herdt |
 Jim Higgins |
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 Vickie Hoagland |
 Henry Hoffman |
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 Tim Irish |
 Misako Ishimura |
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 Paul Jacbosen |
 Vern
Jeremica |
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 John Jones |
 John Kimura |
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 Adam Koenig |
 Joe Kristof |
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 Harry Lemire |
 David Londeree |
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 CheyAnne Maley |
 Rocky
Maley |
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 Rocky Maley's Son, The whole family ties flies |
 Sam Matalone |
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 Jim Maus |
 Jim McAlister |
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 Loren McAllester |
 David Millard |
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 Willie Morrison |
 John Newbury |
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 Bob Newman |
 Larry Nicholas |
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 Dick Nicholas |
 Ring Nishioka |
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 Trevor Nowak |
 Wally Nowak |
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 John C Olschewsky |
 Wayne Orzel |
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 Scott Peters (I left this one big bcause the youth seems most interested in something.) |
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 John Patton |
 Marlon Rampy |
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 David E Roberts |
 Mark
Romero |
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 Karen Royer |
 Janet Schimpf |
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 Carolyn Sells |
 Norm Shively |
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 Tak Shimizu |
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Tak Shimizu's hook making demonstraton became an informal
workshop.as several joined in to learn.
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 Preston Singletary |
 Terry Spindler |
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 Bruce Staples |
 Walt Swanson |
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 Mike Telford |
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 Cameron Thomas |
 Michelle Tuengel |
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 Lory Watkins |
 David Williams |
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 Michael Williams |
 Glenn Wilson |
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 Steve Worley |
 Don't have a name for this tier |
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