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Saturday, March 9th Fly Tying Demo Features Scott Sanchez

A One Fly Vet

Scott Sanchez began tying flies at age 12. As a youth in Utah he offered his first of many fly tying workshops. He has worked in the fly fishing industry for decades, and is now the manager of JD High Country Outfitters in Jackson.  Scott has written articles and sold photos internationally, and his photos have won regional and national awards.  His books include Introduction to Salt Water Fly Tying, The Never Ending Stream, and A New Generation of Trout Flies.  In 2007, he received the Arnold Gingrich Lifetime Achievement Award for literature from the Fly Fishers International and in 2010 he was their recipient of the Buz Busek award for contributions to the fly tying world. Scott has been a featured guide on national TV programs. He is considered one of the most innovative fly tiers in the world. During the annual Jackson Hole One Fly he is in high demand for his ultimately effective flies. He has decades of experience fishing around the world but especially in the Greater Yellowstone area. It has been nearly a decade since Scott’s last tying demo at Jimmy’s. During the upcoming demo he will offer parachute style patterns fr fresh and salt water. Some of these will be intricate, and others will be “ standard.” This demo will be a great chance to add to your parachute style tying skill..

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Saturday, March 2nd Tying Demo Features Spencer Higa

Spencer and Friend

Spencer grew up in Orem, Utah where he loves spending time outdoors fishing and camping with his family.
His dad bought him his first fly rod when he was 12. He grew up  just minutes away from the Provo River. Before he could drive his mom and dad would take him to the river and let him fish all day long. When he was 14 his dad enrolled him in a fly tying course that enhanced his addiction. In 1996 he began guiding at Falcon’s Ledge, an Orvis endorsed lodge in Utah. While guiding on the Provo River and other areas of the state he created the SOS. He fished the fly all over the west before Fulling Mill picked it up over a decade ago. It’s been a top producing fly for many years. After guiding for 22 yrs he started Tacky Fly Boxes with a few of his friends. He was the Marketing Director and helped the company grow to become one of the top selling fly boxes in the industry. After selling the company he took a short break from the fly fishing industry then got hired on at Fly Fish Food in 2022 where he works in the shop a couple days a week then films and edits videos for YouTube and other social media.  Years ago Spencer demoed at Jimmy’s All Seasons Angler in year 2012. SOS was one of the patterns he offered. It remains popular enough for a repeat, so for his demo he is likely to tie it and bring a few, as well as others he creates, in a Tacky Box!

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Saturday, February 24th Fly Tying Demo Features Andrea Jeffreys

Andrea Enjoying a Nice Fish

Andrea, born in Sacramento, California in 1989 was raised to love outdoor adventures. In a few years her family moved to Utah, and she fell in love with fly fishing.  It began through her dad, Scott Harmon, bribing her and siblings to watch any & all fly fishing videos. After many hours of SA dvds, dad Scott took them to the river and offered twenty dollars for the first, biggest and most trout caught. Andrea won that contest by outfishing her siblings to the extent they no longer held an interest in fishing. In 2007 after graduating high school Andrea asked to attend a guide school in Montana to pursue her fly fishing passion. Andrea’s dad agreed on the condition he also would attend, and here Andrea was introduced to fly tying. Trout Bum 2 in Park City, Utah gave Andrea her first chance in the industry. In 2014 she was offered an exclusive guiding opportunity in Francis, Utah.  A couple of the guides there introduced her to pursuing steelhead on a swung fly. With the help, experience & patience of her friends & mentors she landed, in 2015, her first steelhead using a Blue Sparcy tied by Aaron Adams. That event inspired her to take to the vice to create steelhead patterns in hopes to entice the next connection. Emery, Andrea’s oldest son landed his first steelhead in 2020 swinging one of his mom’s ties during a mom and son camping trip. You’ll find Andrea, her three kids and black lab Juniper out camping, biking, and fishing creations tied up for Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, or Oregon waters. Andrea currently guides around Park City on local rivers and seasonal small streams. These guide services include Stonybrook Fly Fishing, Rocky Mountain Outfitters, Park City Guides. During her demo, Andrea will offer her patterns that have produced well on these waters.

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Saturday, February 10th Fly Tying Demo Features Doug Kinney

Doug Using His Fly Creations on the South Fork

Doug came to eastern Idaho from the Nebraska Sand Hills. Bass, walleyes and other warm water species spin-fished with lead-head jigs or flies cast with a bubble for panfish were standard techniques. Doug began around age 12 tying jigs and flies for these outings.  Donated hides, bird skins, and Mom’s sewing basket supplied materials in those beginnings.  By age 14 he gave fly-fishing a try, but being without a mentor, returned to spin-fishing. In 2006 Doug and his family moved to eastern Idaho where the blue ribbon waters and Jimmy Gabettas’s knowledge turned him into the fly fisher he had wanted to be for years.  It took experience on the water, time, and help through books, classes, and DVDs to become that fly-fisher and fly-tier. But through intense interest and having a job that allows some off-time, Doug has arrived to offer effective creations from his tying vise. He began this by taking part in the Eastern Idaho Fly Tying & Fly Fishing Expo tying demos, has added other shows to his list of visits, but opened Pie Hole,one of the best pizzeria to be found. Doug’s last demo at Jimmy’s was just before the C-19 breakout. so we are sure to see some new ideas from his tying vise aand subsequent fisshing experience..

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Saturday, February 3rd Tying Demo Features Brig Wilson

Brig and Family

Brig grew up in the Snake River Valley between the Teton River, the South Fork and the Henry’s Fork. Any chance he had, he was on the river (even during his high school graduation practice) fishing. He spent two years in Alaska where he also took any chance he could to fish.

Brig started tying flies seven years ago. From the very beginning he received some superb hands-on learning from some of the fly tying industry’s best. Especially in the last four years, he spends most his days creating fly tying tutorials at Fly Fish Food with Cheech, Curtis Fry, Lance Egan, and several other great tiers.

Brig spends his nights tying and designing new flies that move just the way he wants in the water. Then most weekends are spent on the water fishing in Utah or Idaho. He will offer some of his creations which have proven effective on east Idaho’s Henry’s Fork, South Fork, and Teton River as well as everywhere he fishes in Utah.

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Henry’s Fork, January 20th, 2024

Headlines from Dr. Rob Van Kirk’s Henry’s Fork Drainage Snow-Water Equivalent (SWE) Report of January 19th.

  • Yesterday’s precipitation increased the water-year total to 88% of average and SWE to 69% of average but increased the disparity even more between the southern half of the watershed and the upper Henry’s Fork.
  • Light but consistent precipitation will continue for the next week, with temperatures well above average.
  • At an average outflow of 386 cfs, Island Park Reservoir gained 20 ac-ft yesterday and is 90% full, compared with 73% full on average.
  • The upper Snake River reservoir system is 71% full, compared with 58% full on average.

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New snow water equivalent (SWE) totals ranged from 0.1 inch or less at all stations in the upper Henry’s Fork to 0.7 inches at Pine Creek Pass and Grand Targhee. That moved watershed mean SWE up one more percentage point to 69% of average, although it dropped a place in the rankings to 3rd driest since 1989, now behind 2012 but still ahead of 2001 and 2010. SWE at Pine Creek Pass improved to 95% of average, moving that in the Teton subwatershed up to 79% of average. SWE is 74% of average in Fall River and 57% of average in the upper Henry’s Fork, the lowest on record for the date.

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Saturday, January 20th Fly Tying Demo Features Danny Lane

Danny and Friend

Danny was born in Boise, Idaho and spent his early angling days in pursuit of trash pond bluegill. Because he was only nine years old, and the flies he tied were ” rather casual”, warm water species with their willingness to eat anything were his only focus for years. Through adolescence, Danny kept catching bluegill on foam spiders and bass on wine cork poppers, but a trip to the Wood River in 1998 with a friend and his dad produced the first trout to be felled by one of Danny’s flies (a foam spider). In the time between then and now, Danny somehow graduated college with an English degree, got married, had two kids, caught a bunch of trout, some steelhead, redfish, snook, bonefish, tarpon, and a handful of permit. He guides for Three Rivers Ranch on the Henry’s Fork, South Fork, and Teton Rivers. Danny also ties commercially for trout and saltwater species and is an Umpqua Signature Tyer.  During his demo Danny will feature some the Signature flies as well as those he prefers for fly fishing waters in this area.

Danny caught his last bluegill in 2016, in a trash pond in Boise. 

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Saturday, January 20th Fly Tying Demo Features Michelle Babcock

Michelle and Friend

Fishing has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My parents have pictures of me sitting on the banks of the Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone in Belfry, Montana, with my great-grandfather introducing me to fly fishing when I was a wee lass.
Born and raised in Southern Idaho, I am blessed to be near some of Northwest’s most amazing trout water.  I am the proud mom of three amazing boys: Hunter, who is serving in our US Navy as a corpsman; Tanton, following in his dad’s lineman’s footsteps; and Chase, who will soon be joining his brother in serving our country. My husband Ryan and I reside in Twin Falls with our three fur babies.


My fly fishing passion runs deep as it provides a therapy that only those who know can explain. In 2013, I decided to share my passion with like-minded women and hosted my first women’s trip on the Henry’s Fork. Since then, I have hosted women’s trips out of Dillon, Montana. It is a blessing every year to share the water with some incredible women who are either just starting or are seasoned anglers to learn and grow from one another and create some incredible friendships.
         I love fishing for big trout. When you fool a fish with a bunch of sparkle and feathers you put together, it makes it much more rewarding. Building streamers is a favorite of mine. When I first started tying, I would watch endless videos of big streamer patterns. I incorporated some of the techniques I’ve learned into my own patterns. During my demo I will be putting together a streamer that I have used on bull trout, as well as being my favorite pattern for cutthroat. I will also throw in a nymph or two that can be used in any local trout water.

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Saturday, January 13th Fly Tying Demo Features John Scola

John and Friend

I grew up in southeast Wisconsin where all sorts of fishing opportunities present themselves. I predominantly spin fished as most do growing up but as I grew older my Dad taught me how to fly fish. I cut my teeth chasing trout in Wisconsin’s driftless region where spring creeks are abundant. As I fly fished more I chased everything from warm water species to lake run brown trout and steelhead.

Fly fishing has taken me many places one of which being Wyoming where I now live. I guided fly fishing trips for the last 4 years in the Jackson Hole area and have traveled elsewhere in the state to chase trout on my own time.

Foam flies and streamers are some of my tying favorites, but I have tied everything from musky and steelhead flies to saltwater flies. My demo at Fly Fish Food-Jimmy’s will present my most effective patterns from all these types. I will also offer information on how to present each one.

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Saturday Fly Tying Demos Resume January 6th with Guest Cade Moore

Cade & Haley Heading Out

I grew up fishing all of my life and like many I just could not get enough time on the water. The desire to become a better angler, catch more fish and understand how to catch as many as possible led me to pick up a fly rod and never look back! 

I joined the Army right out of high school and served for nine years, in that time I traveled all over the world and served time in Afghanistan. After my service I went to work in the plumbing industry working for a plastic piping manufacturer. I left the industry to live the dream of hard work full-time guiding to teach others how to be the most successful out on the water. I developed a passion for euro style techniques and after also attending a few competitions lead me to become really proficient in the technique and have since taught many others. I currently do not guide full-time however I have continued my passion and growth in the industry working full time at Fly Fish Food in Orem Utah. I still guide as well throughout the year whether it be teaching euro style techniques or chasing tailing Carp. During my demo, I will tie flies that my on-the-water experiences chasing carp, salmonids or others have inspired.

I love continuing to learn and still go out and chase any fish I can on a fly rod whenever I have the chance. I have grown to have the knowledge and skill to catch a variety of fish and this year alone have caught 30 different species. I also love to work on my passion of creating and developing new flies for chasing all different species of fish. I love spending time out on the water with the women of my dreams Hayley and my two beautiful children Bodie and Chloe. 

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