Our February meeting will be on the 13th at 9:00am. Hunter will be the demo tyer and he will be tying the McIntyre. See below. Hopefully everyone participating in the meeting can tie along and if Hunter has any special tricks he can take a little extra time to explain so nothing is missed by anyone. I will get the Teams link out as we get closer to the date.

The pattern for our January meeting will be the Thunder and Lightning. A wonderful Irish fly. It looks easy but it’s not. Nothing but bronze mallard over the wing.

Thunder & Lightning
Hook: Gaelic Supreme, Harrison Bartleet, blind eye 4/0
Tip:  X-fine oval silver tinsel
Tag:  Golden yellow floss
Tail: Golden pheasant crest with Indian crow sub as veiling
Butt: Black ostrich herl
Rib: Medium oval silver tinsel
Body: Black floss
Hackle: Fiery brown from second wrap of the rib
Throat: Jay (blue dyed guinea fowl substituted)
Wings: Married strips of yellow scarlet and blue dyed turkey tail: speckled bustard and golden pheasant tail with bronze mallard as roofing
Horns: Blue and gold macaw
Head: Black ostrich herl and black thread

Thunder and Lightning

Normally our December meeting is filled with good eats, Linda’s Cookies and pastries and many other good treats from members. This December won’t be the same as far as that goes. On the flip side we are rewarded with members new and old that can participate virtually. I look forward to this December’s meeting and hope to see all of you. Linda’s fly that she will demonstrate is below. This will be a great learning opportunity that you won’t want to miss. December 12th is the date. 9:00 am Pacific time. I will get the teams link out later this month. Don’t forget to pay your dues if you haven’t already paid.
Dareld.

I picked a fly to tie for the December meeting- the Gladswood. It is in the big Classic Salmon Fly Compendium by Carne/Grewcock. A forgotten Malloch pattern, known only from catalogues and salesmen’s frames.

I will do the variation like in the photo, using yellow for the tag, gold body tinsel instead of silver and red throat hackle. It is fairly simple, but bold and Christmas looking 🙂

The recipe and photo are below.

Thanks!
– Linda

The September 2020 Meeting will be virtual on September 26, 2020 from 9:00am – 2:00pm.  It will be hosted via Microsoft Teams:

Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
+1 949-522-5848   United States, Irvine (Toll)
Conference ID: 510 667 128#

This is a great opportunity to make a meeting even if you live far away.  

The fly will be the Irish Duke as described in the Hardy’s Salmon Flies book. The fly photoed looks like it has a Grizzly hackle tip in the wing as a side instead of guinea for those who might want to change it up.

I apologize for waiting so long to do this. I did not want to give in. I wish the best for everyone and hope you are all surviving extremely strange times. Unfortunately our April meeting is cancelled for obvious reasons. I will push this meeting to May if things are normal enough by then. We’ll see…. Chins up! The auction will be pushed to next year no matter what. 

Our next meeting will be at the King County Library in Issaquah on March 7th at 9:00 am Breakfast is at the Egg and Us, also in Issaquah at 8.00 am. The fly will be the Baker As described in the Hardy’s Salmon Flies book. Also thanks for the turnout last Saturday it was great to see so many tying. It was a lot of fun and I hope everyone learned some things. See you in a couple of weeks.

Baker