Sep 19, 2024 @ 6:30pm:
Tying and Fishing the Isonychia by Henry Ramsay
Henry will do a tying demonstration and give tips on fishing the Isonichia.
Henry Ramsay is a fly fishing writer, custom fly tier, presenter and photographer. He is the author of "Matching Major Eastern Hatches, New Patterns for Selective Trout" and co-author of "Keystone Fly Fishing Guide, The Ultimate Guide to Pennsylvania’s Best Water”. He contributes to “Fly Fisherman” and “Eastern Fly Fishing” magazines and has appeared in a list of other books and publications.
His fly fishing career began more than 45 years ago on a stream in central Pennsylvania and his travels have taken him to many of the best streams and rivers across his home state of Pennsylvania, New York, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and other states. He conducts fly tying classes and presents at many shows, Trout Unlimited Chapters and clubs in the eastern U.S.
Henry is a contract fly designer for Umpqua Feather Merchants and is a member of the Pro Staffs for Daiichi Hooks and Regal Vise. His website is
2024 - 2025 Meeting Schedule and Speakers
Dec 19, 2024: Annual Auction & Christmas Party
Note: Early start time: 5:30 pm. The meeting will start early to allow for setup time, the auction and payments at the end of sale & cleanup by 9pm.
Our yearly Christmas Party will be at the Plymouth Community Center.
Please bring your itams in early the room will be open at 5:30pm so that they can be arranged for viewing and the auction can begin promptly at 6:00pm. Remember we need to clear the room at 9pm.
Items can be auctioned either as donations to the club or as consignments. Consigned items will be auctioned with 90% going to the club member and a 10% commission for the club. All consignment items need to be clearly labeled for consignment with your name on the item.
If you want to have a reserve minimum price on the item, be sure to state that on the label with the minimum you will accept.
All proceeds for a donated item go to the club. Those items do not have to be labeled. They should be placed on the donations table, separate from consignment items.
Payment for Auction Items by Check or Cash Only. Be sure to bring your cash and/or check book to pay for any items you buy. The club does not take credit cards, Venmo, Paypal, Bitcoin or any other electronic payment method.
Food and non-alcoholic beverages will be available.
Now go rummage around your house and find some gear you no longer use and please 'donate' the auction price to the club.
The Main Line Fly-Tyers are pleased to announce that live meetings will be held at the Greater Plymouth Community Center for the 2024-2025 season.
Join or pay your dues on-line:
Oct 17, 2024:
John Shanner - Spider Flies
John will cover the development and a brief history of Spider (Soft Hackle) Flies and then discuss materials and tying techniques. For tying demo I will dress a couple of the flies he will be discussing.
John Shaner grew up in a fishing family on the shores of Skaneateles Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. He was an avid angler even as a youngster and caught his first trout on a fly he tied himself in 1966. The gift of a fly-tying kit when he was eight set him on the road to becoming a fly tier. Although he is primarily self-taught, he has studied many different fly dressing techniques and has been privileged to have sat at the elbow of many famous fly tiers.
While he dresses many different fly styles to suit the rivers he fishes, he especially enjoys reproducing and using traditional trout patterns. Catskill style dry flies were his first interest, but in the past 25 years his focus has been on British wet flies. John has developed a profound interest in “Spiders”, which Americans call “Soft Hackles”, and he enjoys tying and fishing these simple, elegant, and deadly flies. While he likes to experiment with new patterns, he is a bit of a traditionalist in his use of materials and seldom incorporate synthetics into his flies, preferring to use natural silk, fur, and feathers.
Nov 14, 2024:
(This meeting is 1 week earlier than normal)
Barry Ord Clark - The Feather Bender
Barry Born in England, Barry Ord Clarke is an internationally acclaimed and much-published photographer, writer, and a fly tying master. His work as a fly tying master and fly fishing photographer has taken him to over 40 different countries and 4 continents. He is a regular contributor to numerous fishing magazines worldwide.
He has written, Co written and contributed to more than 30 books about fly tying. He has won medals in some of the worlds most prestigious fly tying competitions, and his own flies can be seen in the legendary ‘Fly fishers club’ collection in London and the Catskill master fly collection’ in the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum in the United States. For the past 25 years he has lived in Norway where he works as a professional photographer and a fly tying consultant for The Mustad Hook Company & Veniard Ltd.
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