Patterns – Trout Unlimited Canada – Northern Lights Fly Fishers Chapter

Tak Shimizu – Dragonfly Nymph – spun deer hair

Posted on March 7, 2011 by KenM

At our last club meeting, Tak demonstrated his mastery of spinning deer hair with a dragonfly nymph.

Mikulak Sedge video posted

Posted on February 6, 2011 by KenM

At last week’s meeting, Florin tyed the Mikulak Sedge. The video is now posted on YouTube.

This 2004 demo is of a great little caddis pattern that I often fish suspended under an indicator on potholes. It comes with a history, with the form and function of the caddis patterns developed by Continue reading Demos: Diving Halo Caddis→

Demos: The Doubleback Chironomid

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Scratch

Demonstration of the tying of the Doubleback Chironomid. Pattern by Greg Scratchley. This video was taken from a live presentation to the Northern Lights Fly Tyers and Fishers in 2007. Several edits were required to fit Continue reading Demos: The Doubleback Chironomid→

Kids Can Catch is a program facilitated by the Alberta Conservation Association (ACA). There are several events throughout Alberta each year. At each event, volunteers are on on-hand to help kids learn angling skills. Our chapter has provided volunteers at events, as well as supplied casting bobbers and flies. The bobbers are easy to cast and allow for a presentation of a fly or chironomid using a spinning rod.

This year, we would like to increase the number of flies available to new anglers at the Kids Can Catch events. We are looking for donations of flies that would work well in a lake under a bobber.

So tie some flies, or cull some fly boxes. We’ll collect the flies and pass them on to ACA for use at the events.

Our goal is 500 flies! Let us know how many you collect by sending an email to flies@nlft.org, and we’ll keep the results tallied here.