Our first Guest Speaker is the top notch angler and author Jeremy Lucas who will be well known to many of you. Jeremy has represented England in international competitions in all disciplines of fly fishing and written a number of excellent books. He will be joining us on Wednesday 10th October. Cost is £8.00 for members and £10.00 for guests.
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Leeds Fly Dressers Guild – New Season 2018-2019
REMINDER: We are having our Registration Night at 7:30pm on Wednesday 3rd October 2018 at West Park Rugby Club, The Sycamores, Bramhope, LS16 9JR. The new season’s programme is attached below.
Jerry Lee will be using Peter Gathercole’s Fly Tying Bible as the reference and each fly in the programme is referenced in this book. Jerry proposes to discuss and show variants upon each pattern. There is space in the programme for 6 guest speaker nights which usually include a buffet and raffle during the break. We also hold buddy nights to deal with individual requests for help with your tying. We are uncertain how many complete beginners we might have joining us so it is proposed that we plan and deliver a beginners programme as necessary.
Our first Guest Speaker is the top notch angler and author Jeremy Lucas who will be well known to many of you. Jeremy has represented England in international competitions in all disciplines of fly fishing and written a number of excellent books. He will be joining us on Wednesday 10th October.
Other speakers we have invited are:
- Frank Moors
- Phillipa Hake
- Rob Denson
- Jon Grey
- AGM Speaker – TBC
The programme will include all the bronze and silver level flies for the national FDG accreditation awards and will be led by Jerry Lee and Melvyn Wood. There are 3 buddy style nights built in for those wishing to follow either the FDG bronze or silver award syllabi.
We are going to have 3 classes of fly tying competitions – the Apprentice Cup for “Novice”, a new trophy for “Improvers“ and the Herbert Harris Cup for the “Advanced” tiers group.
The trio of Flies for these awards will be selected from the Bronze, Silver and Gold patterns and need to be handed in by the end Feb 2019. Generally, anybody can enter any class providing they have not previously won it.
The full programme is available to download below or take a look at the Events section. In addition to tying nights, Events will contain details of our fishing trips and competitions that are organised throughout the year.
Guest Night Tonight – Dave Southall
In a change to the advertised programme we have the Legend that is Dave Southall giving us a talk about his fishing exploits and tying some of his most effective patterns, including CDC. It starts tonight at 7.30pm at Bramhope RUFC, The Sycamores, Bramhope, Leeds, LS16 9JR. The cost is £8.00 for members, £10.00 for guests.
Also a reminder of our Fly Tying Competition 2017/18
There are three classes of entry:
• Beginner = less than 2 years of tying and having not won competition previously
• Improver = more than 2 years of tying or winner of previous years beginners trophy
• Advanced = Previous winners of improvers trophy
Each entry should include 3 matching flies of the patterns attached below.
Leeds Fly Dressers Guild – New Season 2017-2018
We commence the new season this year, at 7.30pm on Wednesday 4th October 2017 at West Park Rugby Club, Bramhope, with our registration night.
Jerry Lee and Melvyn Wood will be our instructors again this season.
New members are most welcome and will be introduced to the club if they come along.
In terms of our guest speaker programme, we have invited six who are well known and highly regarded in their field:
- Paul Procter – River Flies
- Matt Eastham – Successful Reservoir and River Flies
- Clarke Coleman – Modern European Nymph Fishing
- Frank Moors – Flies for Migratory Fish
- Gary Hillary – Flies for the Tyne and it’s Tributaries
- Alan Middleton – Sussex Fly Fishing School, AAPGAI Instructor
We hope to see you tomorrow!
Leeds FDG Guest Night – Dr Paul Gaskell
Guest Night with Dr Paul Gaskell, author of “Trout in the Town” giving a talk on river flies and entomology.
| Mar 8th
M & G Rota – PKS |
Dr Paul Gaskell
Trout in the Town |
River Flies and | Some Entomology |
Leeds FDG Guest Night – Stuart Wardle
Guest Night with Stuart Wardle (Multi England International) giving a talk on “Reservoir and river patterns that do the business”
Cost is £8.00 FDG Members, £10.00 Guests.
| Feb 8th
M&G Rota -Chris S
|
Stuart Wardle
Multi England International |
Reservoir and | River patterns | That do the business |
Leeds FDG Guest Night – Matt Eastham
Guest Night with Matt Eastham giving a talk on successful North Country patterns.
Cost is £8.00 FDG Members, £10.00 Guests.
| Jan 11th
M&G Rota- Dudley
|
Matt Eastham | Successful North | Country | Patterns |
Leeds FDG Guest Night – Steve Newsome
Guest night with Steve Newsome giving a talk on successful reservoir patterns.
Cost is £8.00 FDG Members, £10.00 Guests.
| Nov 16th
M&GRota -Dudley |
Steve Newsome
Ex Ladybower |
Successful | Reservoir | Patterns |
Leeds FDG Registration Night
Registration night for new members.
Jerry Lee and Melvyn Wood will be doing a tying demonstration.
| Date | GUEST NIGHT | Buddy Night | Novices Classes
Jerry Lee |
Improvers Classes
Melvyn Wood |
| Wed 5th Oct.
M&G Rota –Dudley |
Registration & | Demonstration | Competition Flies | Silver Stoat – Salmon Fly Silver Award Fly |
Guest Night – Bob Lomax & Wendy Gibson on Reservoir & River Flies
Guest Night
Bob Lomax & Wendy Gibson on Reservoir & River Flies
£8.00 for Leeds FDG Members and £10.00 for guests. Everyone welcome to come along!