This year’s One Fly Event is scheduled to take place September 7th-10th. This more that just a fly fishing contest, it is a major fund raising action for protecting the Snake River salmonid population. Go to the Jackson Hole One Fly Contest web site to see details and purpose.
Every September in Jackson Hole, WY. forty teams put their skills to the test fishing two days, each with a single fly, with team and individual scores determined by the quantity and length of fish caught. The Jackson Hole One Fly Event uses monies raised to fund conservation, habitat preservation and rehabilitation projects, along with stewardship education for the benefit of trout populations primarily in the Snake River Basin and the headwaters in Yellowstone Park.
Although the shop will be under new ownership and management by June, we are planning a summer fly casting class schedule. The current weather makes it tough to give a starting date, but we will announce dates, location, fee and equipment suggestion information on this website.
Doug is a respected figure in eastern Idaho fly tying and fly-fishing circles. A native of Newdale, Idaho, Doug has been tying and guiding professionally for about 50 years. Forty of those years have been with Three Rivers Ranch and two with Vern Bressler’s River Meadows Ranch. Such experience has made him authority on fishing the Henry’s Fork drainage. The list of concerns that Doug has tied for is also impressive: Bud Lilly’s Trout Shop, Dave Cochran’s River’s Edge, House of Harrop, Hunter’s, Orvis Alaska, Orvis, Deep Water Key, and ongoing at Three River’s Ranch. Whether it is for the Henry’s Fork, the Teton River or lesser known but quality waters such as Fall River, Bitch and Robinson Creeks, Doug has a depth of fishing experience for each. Through gaining this experience he has created effective patterns for every occasion. He also knows where and when traditional patterns are effective in the region. Being generous and knowledgeable, look for Doug to share not only tying tips, but also presentation ideas for the flies on which he will focus.
All Seasons Angler Saturday Fly Tying Demos Resume
We suspended these for three years because of the Covid virus. The good news is that the outbreak has peaked. Here is more good news: the demos will resume beginning on Saturday, January 7th, 2023 and run through Saturdays to March 4th. Each begins at 10 AM and continues indefinitely. The featured demonstrating tier will present patterns proven to be effective on area waters and will answer questions on how, where and when usage, and offer tying information. Demonstrating tier bios will be published on the shop web site, www.jimmysflyshop.com, days before each demo is offered. A roster of demonstrating tiers is being developed.
Attendees wish to focus on demonstrating tier actions, but spontaneous conversations develop between some attendees. We ask that if these conversations become extensive, those involved move outside the demo area. We suggest bringing notebooks to capture information provided by a demonstrating tier.
Masks are optional.
We have received requests for an intermediate fly casting class, and here is our response.
Our Intermediate Casting Class, headed by Jim Duke, will be offered at Ponds on Snake River Parkway Wednesday, August 10th beginning at 6:30 PM and extending for about two hours.
Snake River Parkway Location
We limit attendees to six in order to provide a best measure of individual attention, and we recommend that attendees bring their own balanced outfits (rod, reel & line with normally used leader) to establish familiarity on learning the casting techniques to be offered and refined individually Here are techniques that will be featured:
Casting for Distance
Double Haul
.Reach Cast
Roll Cast
Tuck Cast
Accuracy exercises will also be offered.
Other techniques will be targeted on request
Cost is $60 per attendee, and balanced outfits are available for attendees not owning such. Sign up at All Seasons Angler ( tel. 208-524-7160, email [email protected]). Include your phone number or email address, method of payment, whether or not you will need a balanced outfit.
As we are rolling out a plan for re-opening the shop, we hope everyone takes into consideration the safety of not only yourself, but those around you.
A Utah native, Grant has guided rivers, lakes, and streams of the Uinta Mountains south slope for 15 years. He prefers the solitude and serenity of high elevation lakes for his own personal pursuits and sometimes takes his two kids, Stella, and Grant Yuriy (G2), or his wife, Holly, along. Spending his winter months in a “feather den”, he enjoys learning new techniques to broaden the fly tying skill set. When he’s not tying, he’s chasing exotic pheasants, upland game, or waterfowl on “feather ventures” across Utah and Southern Idaho. Grant considers himself extremely fortunate to have learned from some of the best tiers and mentors ever to have picked up a bobbin holder and thread. He also enjoys reading, writing, and arithmetic. Through using arithmetic he calculates that this will be his first fly tying demo at Jimmy’s.
Grant’s demo concludes our 2019-2020 Saturday fly tying demo season. We will begin our 2020-2021 fly tying demo season in November of this year. We look forward to presenting another array of accomplished fly tiers within it.
I work for the City of Pocatello in the “clean” Water Department. I fish for “fun”! I like to find different water and different species especially with my wife and daughter. I tie flies that are simple and catch fish, I love Stillwater, fishing the Snake (not American Falls), but really love a good creek! I started fly fishing because I got tired of putting worms on my wife’s hooks, naturally she always caught more fish than me! We fish primarily still water on pontoon boats or from our small boat, but enjoy a nice river or creek now & then. My wife bought me a fly tying kit for Christmas one year & just started tying flies. I find fly patterns off the Internet, demos, expos, & YouTube. Social media has also been a great source of reference for me & has helped me connect with some great local people. Some of the tiers that have influenced me along the way are Collin Carlson, “Wild” Bill Schiess, Shawn Bostic, Aileen Lane, the Fly Fish Food guys, & Gary Barnes. One of my fondest memories was catching my first fish on a fly I tied myself; now thinking back that must have been the dumbest fish ever! The flies I will be tying are a variety of my favorite flies, mostly used on still water, but some that I use on systems.
Tom was born in Fresno, CA in 1968. At age 12, he took his first fly tying class at the Royal Coachman Fly Shop in Fresno. That began more than 40 years of fly tying and fly fishing addiction. A week never passed without tying a fly for 30 Years.
Tom has fished, guided and tied flies for Trout and Steelhead in CA and Oregon, Trout, Char, Grayling, Salmon, Pike and Halibut in AK and Tarpon, Bonefish, Permit and Barracuda in the Cayman Islands. For the last four years Tom returned to the Trout Fishing I cut my teeth on. Now he fishes, guides and ties flies for the Madison River, Yellowstone Park, all area lakes and the Henry’s Fork, Teton and South Fork of the Snake River.
With the materials and innovations now in fly tying, our options as creators of natural, life-like Trout food designs are unlimited. Tom will be talking about fly design and how to effectively fish to bring life to your fly!
For my demo at Jimmy’s Tom will be tying “Trout Spey” flies. He I uses these flies with a “Micro Spey” rod. He will discuss and demonstrate how to use marabou, rabbit, hair, weight and other items to design and tie flies for specific purposes.