Date: February 5th, 2011
Guest Tier: Matt Erny
Location: Elkhart Conservation Club Main Building (Map)
Cost: $50.00
Matt is a smallmouth junkie his class will push your creative abilities in tying effective patterns for smallies.
A place for everything and everything in its place – that’s well and good for your rods and 
reels, waders and even your socks; but what about your left over monofilament? While fishing in Montana, I came across a very simple idea that Michiana was in desperate need of – monofilament recycling tubes. These are simple PVC tubes that allow people to properly place excess monofilament instead of leaving it on the banks, in the weeds and streams that can cause injuries to wildlife as well as people.
SJRVFF conservation has implemented up to 34 monofilament recycling tubes and placeed them in fishing spots all over Michiana. St. Joseph
County Parks, Potato Creek State Park and others have embraced the idea.
We want to thank Niezgodski Plumbing of South Bend and Homan Lumber of Elkhart
Indiana and North American Pipe of Bristol for pipe, fittings, elbows and post. We need your help. We are looking for volunteers to clean out the tubes once a month or as needed. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Brandon Rasler.
This is a great excuse to get out and fish as well as help the environment. Here is a list of sites. Please collect the monofilament and we will properly recycle through Pure Fishing, the parent company of Berkley.
LOREN WILLIAMS – FlyFishing Team USA
Loren Williams currently resides with his wife Heather, daughter Mickayla, and son Ryan in Westvale, NY where he is a prominent and respected full-time fly-fishing guide and guest speaker specializing in salmon and steelhead tactics and teaching top-level trout fishing skills. You can learn more from his website www.flyguysoutfitting.com. Loren was born and raised in northeastern Pennsylvania, where he was the youngest of three boys. In addition to the guiding career he so loves, Loren is a long-standing member of FlyFishing Team USA and the current head coach of the US Youth Fly-Fishing team. Not only has this rekindled his passion for the sport, he has become a better angler and, therefore, a better teacher.
KELLY GALLOUP – Owner of Galloupʼs Slide Inn, Madison River Montana
Kelly has been a fly fishing guide for 27 years. He started guiding in Michigan at the age of 16. He started his fly shop The Troutsman in Traverse City, Michigan, in 1981. He continued to run The Troutsman until the spring of 2002 when he moved to Montana. He is an author and lecturer. His books are Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout (co-authored with Bob Linsenman) and Cripples and Spinners. Kelly has been published by virtually every major fly fishing magazine in the business and is Editor-at-Large for Fly Fisherman Magazine. Kelly is also one of the hosts of Fly Fish TV (www.flyfishtv.com) on the Outdoor Life Network.
Kevin Thomason – KVCTU
So Many Choices, So Little Time – Targeted Fishing “Out West” The immensity of Yellowstone Park and Southwest Montana alone leads to some head scratching about where to go? when? how long? big water or small water? can I wade? when’s runoff? dries, nymphs, streamers? Are they easy? We’ll take a whirlwind tour in commentary and pictures then take your questions. And…I have no commercial interest in a particular river or area so the remarks will be straight up.
Learn to tie 17 best-selling patterns for trout, bass, and saltwater flats species such as bonefish and permit.
Whether they use one or not, most tiers do not understand the full potential of a rotary vise–including many of the leading fly tiers in the industry. Most tiers are still just using them to see the bottom of the flies they are tying, but their uses and advantages go far beyond this. Now with this book, the Beattys share their decades of experience and knowledge to unlock the mystery behind this type of vise and you won’t believe what you have been missing. Rotary Fly-Tying Techniques main objectives are to explore a sampling of true rotary vises currently available on the market, guide tiers through the sometimes frustrating adjustments needed to use their rotary vise to the fullest, share tying tips and tricks for quickly tying effective flies, and tie 36 flies–for fresh and saltwater species–with clear instructions and step-by-step photography. There is no other book that explains everything you need to know about rotary vises and their many advantages, you will be amazed at how a rotary vise will improve your fly-tying.
Readers will discover the most effective, most original, and most historic flies published in the 30-year history of Fly Rod & Reel magazine. The book is filled with fly-tying tips and fly-pattern designs straight from Fly Rod & Reel, contributors such as Darrel Martin, A.K. Best, Ted Leeson and many others; all make this a must-have or perfect gift for a fly tier of any skill level.
Strategies for selective trout in clear water. New patterns designed for spring creeks and how to fish them. Simple explanations of the major hatches on spring creeks across the country
Spring creeks, those rare waters that flow right out of the earth–in whole or in part–are both a blessing and a curse for anglers. They are a blessing because the clear, cold, nutrient-rich waters grow abundant insects, which in turn grow and sustain large populations of healthy trout. They flow free of ice in the winter and run cool during the hottest parts of summer, providing year-round angling. In many ways, this bounty becomes a curse, because the abundance and steady supply of food can spoil the trout, making them less likely to take a piece of fluff and feathers. Many spring creeks are also small, their challenges enhanced by weed-choked runs and tricky currents.
Fishing the Film still holds the greatest attraction for the fly rodder in any water type. Fish feeding at the surface film are not necessarily eating “dry flies”; they might be feeding on emergers, nymphs, minnows swimming near the surface, mice or frogs swimming in the film, and other organisms utilizing the uppermost layer of the water. In this book, Gary Borger covers the skills necessary for successfully fishing the film, including an understanding of what fish see when feeding at the surface. There’s a thorough look at the food organisms of the film zone and Gary reveals the secret of the Universal Emerger, hatch types, rise forms, and much more. The book contains a host of tactics for fishing the film, including both dead-drift and action-packed presentations. A chapter entitled, “What, When, Where, Why, and How” details the presentation tactics for fishing stream and lake situations. Throughout the book, the “how to” is animated with stories that stretch back over half-a-century of Gary’s fly-fishing life. Complementing all of this is a collection of black-and-white illustrations by Jason Borger.