In a change to the original Programme, this week’s Guest Speaker is our very own Melvyn Wood talking about Patagonia. Not to be missed!

Wednesday 12 February 2025 sees us welcome the author and regular contributor to Fly Fishing & Fly Tying Magazine, Dave Southall as our guest speaker. It promises to be a very informative evening.

In a change to the programme, we’ll now be tying the flies from the 8 January 2025, namely the Dry Mayfly Dun (Beginners) and the Pink Lady (intermediates). This is in lieu of the Materials Auction, so bring your tying gear instead of your hard-earned Yorkshire brass!! 🙂

Next Wednesday sees out first guest speaker of 2025 when we welcome Rob Spaight of Yellowbelly Fly Tying. I believe it’s Rob’s first time tying for Leeds FDG and so it promises to be another good evening. £8 on the door inclusive of a light supper. Hopefully see you there!

A belated Happy New Year to everyone.

Due to the current weather and the fact the Rugby Club has closed for the next couple of days, we have had to cancel tomorrow night’s tying demos. We’ll hopefully be back fo our next guest speak on Wednesday 15 January 2025.

As a long-time friend of the branch, Paul Procter needs no introduction. We’ll be making a prompt start at 7:30pm for what will undoubtedly be a very informative evening. We hope to see you there!

For October’s guest speaker we welcome back friends of the branch Phillippa Hake and Ann Kitchener from Semperfli. Phillippa will be tying a election of flies and there will be some of Semperfli’s excellent materials to purchase on the night. Not to be missed! See you there.

Just a quick note to let you all know that well be back tying from Wednesday 9 October 2024. Look Forward to seeing both familiar and new faces there!

A belated congratulations to this years Leeds FDG Awards winners. The Beginners Award went to Pete Harrison (left image) with a set of three excellently tied Mallard & Claret wet flies. The Intermediate Award winner was David Watsham with a very nice set of Stimulator dry flies, and the Open Award went to Robin Crawshaw (right image) for his impressive set of three ‘Ace of Spades’ lures. The photography competition was won by Graham Jones with a great shot of a Banded Damsel Fly and, last but not least, the Invent-a-fly competition was won by Adam Fewtrell with a modern twist on a Traditional Wet fly. Well done to all!

In addition to the competition flies, Mike Jack had been a busy man and was awarded his Bronze and Silver Guild Awards. Well done Mike.

And that, as they say, is a wrap! We’re all done for the 2023-24 tying programme and will be back in October 2024. In the meantime, wishing everyone a successful season.

If the footage in Don Staziker and Peter Hayes’ new book is anything like ‘Trout and Flies Getting Closer’ we are in for an absolute treat. It’ll be great to welcome Don back this Wednesday @ 7:30pm. See you there!