OOFS Guest Tyers 2014

[Nick Pionessa]

OK sportsfans it's that time of year again. here's the lineup for the guest tyers so far and i will update this for the remaining dates asap. we have one debut so far this year, Nate Carr will be doing musky flies for us.

Demo's run from on Saturdays 2-4 pm at the OOFS Coffee and Donuts are always provided. very informal atmosphere and questions and interaction are encouraged.

Jan 4th- Brent Kelley- Tying Trout Flies with CDC

Jan 11th- Nick Pionessa- Different styles of Steelhead Flies. Hooks to Tubes to Shanks and as many styles as we have time for with an emphasis on material selection and preparation.

Jan 18th- Vern Burm- Tricks of the trade. All those little bits that make what seems difficult much easier.

Jan 25th- There will be NO demo this saturday. NJ flyfishing show!

Feb 1st- Steve Wascher- tying articulated streamers and deer hair. big fish/big fly stuff.

Feb 8th- Steve Galetta will be tying patterns for selective trout with a focus on the Bighorn River and western trout. There will also be a slide show on fishing Montana's Big Horn River.

Feb 15th- Nate Carr- Nate will be showing us how to tie some of his very successful patterns for Muskies.

Feb 22- Charlie Dickson- Charlie will be doing an assortment of bass and warmwater flies. From deer hair to streamers.

[VERNBURM]

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Wilson.....Looking forward to twisting up a few flies this Saturday (1/18/14)......As always I will have some chili cooking and the Mrs will have a yummy treat. See you folks then.

[Nick Pionessa]

Looking forward to it Vern. Safe travels and we'll see you saturday.

[Nick Pionessa]

NOTE- there will be no demo this Saturday 1-25-14. Too many people going to the NJ FF show. we are back at it Feb 2nd with Steve Wascher doing articulated flies and deer hair stuff.

[Nick Pionessa]

Next up on the OOFS Guest tyers this saturday is Steve Wascher. Steve is going to be doing some articulated streamers and throwing in a little deer hair. He's fresh off of tyers row at the NJ FF show so he should be good and warmed up! 2-4pm at the shop this saturday

[johnjarosz(jj)]

Excellent demo, Steve, & thoroughly enjoyable. All beautiful ties, even without the gel-spun (ha!). Especially liked the little tricks you showed us, like spinning the feather butt ends before tying. Hope you had an E-Z drive back.

[Nick Pionessa]

Steve from the Bighorn Angler will be doing a presentation on the operation on the BH and Pete will be tying some of his favorite flies for the river. The theme will be fishing in warmer times! This Saturday 2/8 from 2-4 pm at the fly shop.

Local WNY guide Jason Czora shows off a nice brownie from the Bighorn River MT tip last summer.


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[johnjarosz(jj)]

Nate...great job on the muskie flies & nobody would even have known you were a first timer. New materials, new techniques, a whole different kind of tying..all good stuff. Thanks much for an excellent demo. BTW, what was the name of that pink mesh you used? When you were cutting it, it seemed pretty rugged.

[NateCarr]

Thanks John, it was a lot of fun.

The mesh material I used is braided expandable sleeving, it is designed for bundling wires and made from polyethylene monofilament.
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[Nick Pionessa]

yeah great job Nate. you did well regardless of it being your first demo. thanks for taking the time and showing us some of your tricks. here's a few shots.