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Join us on Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10am for breakfast and an afternoon of Fly Tying at Ten Mile River Preserve in Dover Plains, NY. Although learning to tie your own flies won’t save you any money; it will make you a better angler! And the fact is, it’s just plain fun. Tying your own flies makes you a better angler by requiring you to think about what and where in the water column fish eat, and how best to imitate it. Are they eating sculpin or scuds on the bottom? Catching nymphs tumbling along? Eating emergers as they sit in the surface film, or duns as they dry? Or even spinners as they float spent along the surface having completed their lifespan. The answers to all of these questions become more clear when you sit down at the vise and gather your materials.
We’ll meet for breakfast in the Bison Barn and then head over to the main lodge for fly tying. We will sit around a large round table in front of floor to ceiling windows with a beautiful view, so that we can sit together and share. This class is a chance for beginners to sit at a vise and actually tie a few flies before investing in their own set up. There will be multiple stations (vise, tools, materials) set for new tiers to use. Tiers with their own equipment are encouraged to bring everything along and join us. Materials to tie several different types, and levels, of flies will be provided for all participants.
This is also an opportunity to warm up your fingers for our winter zoom fly tying program. And to start filling your fly boxes for next season. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate and snacks will be available throughout the day.
Cost: $45 per person covers breakfast, tying station use, materials and snacks.
Join us on Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10am for breakfast and an afternoon of Fly Tying at Ten Mile River Preserve in Dover Plains, NY. Although learning to tie your own flies won’t save you any money; it will make you a better angler! And the fact is, it’s just plain fun. Tying your own flies makes you a better angler by requiring you to think about what and where in the water column fish eat, and how best to imitate it. Are they eating sculpin or scuds on the bottom? Catching nymphs tumbling along? Eating emergers as they sit in the surface film, or duns as they dry? Or even spinners as they float spent along the surface having completed their lifespan. The answers to all of these questions become more clear when you sit down at the vise and gather your materials.
We’ll meet for breakfast in the Bison Barn and then head over to the main lodge for fly tying. We will sit around a large round table in front of floor to ceiling windows with a beautiful view, so that we can sit together and share. This class is a chance for beginners to sit at a vise and actually tie a few flies before investing in their own set up. There will be multiple stations (vise, tools, materials) set for new tiers to use. Tiers with their own equipment are encouraged to bring everything along and join us. Materials to tie several different types, and levels, of flies will be provided for all participants.
This is also an opportunity to warm up your fingers for our winter zoom fly tying program. And to start filling your fly boxes for next season. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate and snacks will be available throughout the day.
Cost: $45 per person covers breakfast, tying station use, materials and snacks.