Free Casting Instruction

Free Casting Instruction Workshops Important! Please Read! Join us at MSU athletic fields and outside Workshop Equipment: Most workshops have extremely important so please bring your own bottle the Strand Union Building equipment requirements and considerations listed. of water. For on stream workshops we recommend a Read the descriptions carefully. wading staff, also waders/boots where indicated. Casting Demonstrations ALL outdoor workshops need to follow the FFI ALL persons participating in on-the-water work- These presentations are a great way to learn how to im- Safety Policy which requires all instructors and partici- shops where your line is in the water, where fishing prove your casting! Topic centered questions from the audi- pants wear eye protection/sunglasses (polarized are or casting with flies or yarn flies are involved, are -re ence are welcome. Presenters are some of the best casters/ helpful for fishing) and sunscreen. A hat is required quired to obtain the appropriate state license and/or instructors attending the Expo. The preliminary schedule for casting workshops and a fishing hat for on-the-wa- National Forest Service permits if required prior to the will be at 11 am and 2 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday ter workshops. You should be prepared and dress ac- workshop. Anyone taking on-the-water workshops and most will be at a location near the Expo Hall. cordingly for inclement weather; consider carrying a are required to sign a Hold Harmless Agreement. raincoat. Bug spray is also helpful. Staying hydrated is Casting Clinics & Video Casting Analysis Will be held Friday, July 26 from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in aerial mends, reach mends, pile casts, curve casts, and Saturday, July 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. curve mends and others, and the circumstances in which Tuesday, July 23 to use these casts. Equipment: A 8 1/2’ to 9’ 5w or 6w rod with floating double taper (or triangle taper) line with Casting Clinics TYING a 9’ leader is recommended. It will be more difficult to This is the place to go to solve casting problems, learn new 1. Women’s Beginning Fly Tying - Day 1 - Patty Lueken, perform the casts with a weight forward taper. skills or have a video casting analysis---a powerful tool for Kathy Crofts, Patty Gnuse, Charlotte Day, Oleta Webb, Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. improving your cast---all with FFI Certified Casting Instruc- Gretchen Beatty, Jane McKevitt, Joyce White, Peggy Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 tors. Several instructors can help you try the FFI Fly Casting Brenner, Elsie Rhoades, Katherine Burns and Kate Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Skills Challenge and confirm achievement for those that Lodge. In this sixteen-hour educational experience wish recognition for their achievement!! Instruction is for spanning over two days, you will tie flies to build foun- 4. Fundamental Mending for Success - Michael Kelly. dational tying techniques and learn to handle various Identify and learn foundational and fundamental mending all skill levels, beginner to expert. Bring your own rod, reel, materials and tools. This is a hands-on experience with and line or use one of ours. techniques, why we do it and how to apply them in differ- multiple instructors to provide individual instruction. Let’s ent stream-flow situations to avoid that dreaded “D” word; have fun and walk away with flies to fish!Equipment: drag on the fly. We will single out 3-4 of the most versatile Free Video Casting Analysis! Vise, tools, and materials will be provided. Price includes mends used, types of mending and why. One hour class- And you thought your smart phone or tablet computer were Day 2, WS#15 and lunch (sack lunch day 1, FTG Rendez- room time and then out to the practice field. This is not a only useful for emails, social media, and shopping! How vous ticket day 2). “Casting” class, but a “Mending” course designed for the about using the video camera feature to improve your Tuesday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. beginner. Equipment: Students MUST have basic pick-up/ fly casting skills? Join us at the Casting Clinic for video Level: Beginner Class Limit: 16 lay-down and overhead cast down well. Bring rig (rod, reel, Member fee: $145 NonMember fee: $170 line, 2x Leaders - at least 2 count). analysis of your casting technique. You may use your Material fee: $35 own electronic device, rod, reel, and line or use one of Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Level: Beginner Class Limit: 8 ours. We’ll show you “before” and “after” video so you can NON-ANGLING Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 see the improvements! 2. FFI Leadership Development Workshop - Dutch Baughman. This workshop will provide informa- 5. Introduction to Casting Instructor Certification - Spey Doctor tion about FFI, including history, strategic direction, James Sommercorn. The Casting Instructor (CI) is the Join FFI Certified Two-Hand Casting Instructors gathering program elements, and operations. It may include basic instructor certification offered by the Casting -In on a local river, Friday and Saturday July 26 and 27 from leadership skills, membership development, fund structor Certification Program. I will provide an overview 1:00-4:00 p.m. for a walk-up clinic to help diagnose and raising skills, and local programming development of the CI including the tenets of fly casting instruction, cure what ails your two-handed casting! The clinic is open and ideas. Leadership skills such as communication, the requirements for certification, and resources for to beginning and seasoned Spey casters looking to improve motivation, teamwork, and relationship building may be preparation. I will relate the principles of fly casting and covered. Mentors will be provided for the participants methods of instruction to selected tasks of the CI Perfor- technique. for ongoing development. If you are interested in being mance Exam and will describe elements of an effective a club, council, or organizational leader, you should process for achieving CI certification. The workshop is LIVINGSTON HOSTS CASTING EXAMS attend this workshop. Looking for new and emerging directed primarily to CI candidates and others interested Casting Instructor Certification Examinations and leaders in FFI. in CI certification. Instructors also may find it useful. Examiner Development Pathway Opportunities July Tuesday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Equipment: It is classroom only. Please be prepared to 2019 Level: All-Level, (must be endorsed by your respective take notes. FFI Council to attend) 30 Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Casting instructor certification exams and related Class Limit: Member fee: FREE NonMember fee: FREE Level: All-Level Class Limit: 25 workshops will occur this year prior to the 2019 Expo in Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 Livingston (about 45 min. from Bozeman) on July 20-22. This will provide the best venue for exams and will help Wednesday, July 24 6. Saltwater Strategies - Sight Fishing from a Flats free examiners’ time to instruct at the Expo. For questions Skiff - Jim Schneider. Sight fishing with a guide on a contact Jonathan Walter at [email protected] or Nikki Loy CASTING flats skiff is both fun and challenging. Learn everything at [email protected] 3. Fundamentals of Slack Line Presentations - Paul needed to prepare you to go fly fishing for various saltwa- Gallo and Gail Donoghue. For fishing on moving water, ter species (e.g. Bonefish, Permit, Tarpon, Redfish). Learn EDP requests: New and renewing EDP participants needing the ability to make drag free presentations in a variety about improving and developing fly casting techniques that will help you catch more fish from the bow of a flats Workshops or other EDP steps contact the coordinator, of fishing situations often makes the difference between success and failure. This class for intermediate level boat. Equipment and boat orientation; line management; Jonathan Walter ASAP at [email protected] casters will teach the techniques for placing slack in the casting with wind; accuracy drills; the three “L’s”; and presentation for drag free drifts. It will include instruction saltwater quick-cast techniques is also covered. All work- 7 shop information will be emailed to you following the class. waterborne and airborne types of SHS. There is probably no nymphs. This workshop places complete on-water focus Equipment: 8 weight medium to fast action rod is ideal with cast more fun to throw than the Snake Roll. Equipment: This on controlling depth and speed of fly presentations. Note: floating line and 8’ or 9’ leader. We will have yarn (practice) is on-the-water so be prepared to wade. Bring a floating line This IS NOT a casting workshop. Attendees are expected flies for you. A 6, 7 or 9wt rod will also work. We will have a with a stout 8’ or 9’ leader and non-wool yarn fly and floatant. to have at least a beginner/intermediate casting level skill couple of 10 and 11 weight rods on hand for you to try if you No Skagit type lines (OPST), sinking lines, or sink tips. set. Equipment: Attendees must provide all of their own are going for bigger game like tarpon. Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. basic fishing gear and equipment including rod (9’- 5 or 6wt Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 5 single hand w/WF-Floating fly line, or Trout Spey), reel, lines, Level: All-Level Class Limit: 15 Member fee: $60 NonMember fee: $70 leaders, flies, indicators, all other terminal tackle. Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to Noon 13. Trout Spey Casting, Tips and Tactics - Chris King. Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 7. MCI Exam Preparation - Bryan Martin and Sekhar Class will focus on: technical casting with small Spey rods Member fee: $75 NonMember fee: $90 Bahadur. This workshop provides information on prepara- and switch rods and how they differ, reading the water to tion for candidates planning to take the MCI exam. Also determine terminal tackle, how and why to mend when 18. Women’s Fly Fishing - Day 1 - Molly Semenik, Robin suitable for existing MCIs, mentors and examiners looking swinging for trout, how to fight and land fish with a longer Brown, Mona Brewer, Kristy Aserland, Trisha Campbell, for more insight into the MCI exam. Equipment: See MCI rod. Equipment: Waders or the ability to wet wade. Rods Heather Hodson, Shauna Williams, Sam Decker, and exam requirements online for equipment required. and reels if they have it. Kara Tripp. The Women’s Fly Fishing Workshop is an Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to Noon Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. educational experience, teaching both general concepts and Level: Advanced Class Limit: 20 Level: All-Level Class Limit: 10 specific skills, to women anglers who have had some experi- Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Member fee: $60 NonMember fee: $70 ence with fly fishing. Skills taught will be catered to individual needs. This workshop runs over a two-day period. Topics in- 8. Project Healing Waters Casting Instructor Course - TYING clude gear and equipment, rigging and knots, aquatic insects, Day 1 - Tim Lawson and Mark Milkovich. This course is casting, fly selection and presentation, and reading the water. 14. Trout & a Little Salt - Steve Bailey. We will learn the Each day includes classroom and on-the-water instruction. designed to teach current and prospective casting instruc- proper selection of materials (various hairs and feathers) tors participating in the Project Healing Waters program The instructors are a group of passionate female fly fishers and their placement on the hook for the tying of a better including long time anglers, certified casting instructors and how to become more effective teachers. It emphasizes functioning and nicely finished fly. What type of hair to -se efficient casting mechanics resulting in maximum distance professional guides. Equipment: Waders, boots, 4 to 6 wt fly lect based on its function; tail, wing, spinning or collar. How rod, line with 2 leaders and fly box. A list of suggested flies and accuracy with minimum effort. Emphasis will be placed to step-tie some patterns to reduce clutter on your tying on casting mechanics, fault diagnosis, and fault correc- will be mailed to all students. If necessary, fly rods can be table and to produce a more consistent result. Patterns; Elk provided. Price includes Day 2, WS#41 and lunch both days. tion. Equipment: Registration preference will be given to Hair Caddis, the way Al Troth tied it - Blond Humpy, a won- Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. current volunteer instructors in the PHW program. Price derful Spruce Moth pattern - Bomber, Steelhead/Salmon Level: Intermediate/Advanced Class Limit: 16 includes Day 2, WS#29. - Lefty’s Deceiver and Flip’s Prince of Tides, Salt as well as Member fee: $275 NonMember fee: $300 Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. large Trout. Equipment: Bring tying tools and light, including Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 20 a small hair stacker (best made from an empty Chap-Stick; Member fee: $100 NonMember fee: $100 saw tube approximately 1” above junction of cap, remove 19. Streamside Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone: innards and clean.) Thread needed, all Danville’s; 6/0 Day 1 - Elizabeth Donahue. In this course we will spend 9. Preparation and Expectations for the CI Test - David Flymaster - brown, 3/0 Monocord - brown, Flat Waxed Nylon time both in the classroom and on the water exploring the Barron and Tim Gross. This workshop will give you a time - yellow, white, red, brown. I will have all other materials ecology of the Greater Yellowstone, with an emphasis on line and what to do to prepare for taking the CI test. It will ready for you. Paper and pen to make notes or drawings. trout water ecology. In the classroom we will learn general also show you what each task should look like to pass and Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. fishing ecology and entomology of the area, then dive into what is not acceptable. We will also give you an evaluation Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 the role of traditional outdoor pursuits in conservation and of your present casting skills and what you need to work Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 land management. Topics of tourism, AIS, climate change, on. Equipment: Students should bring a 5-6 wt fly rod with Material fee: $10 non-fishing impacts, and policy concerns for the angler; a weight forward line. 7 1/2’ or longer leader with a yarn fly. and a breakdown of public land law and licensing will be Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. covered. Equipment: For the on-the-water day, students 15. Women’s Beginning Fly Tying - Day 2 - Patty Luek- should bring their full fishing kit, including waders and Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 10 en, Kathy Crofts and Patty Gnuse. In this sixteen-hour Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 boots (or stuff you can wet wade in comfortably for several educational experience spanning over two days, you will hours- here in MT it can sometimes get cold suddenly, tie flies to build foundational tying techniques and learn so be aware), fly rod and reel, and a selection of leader, 10. Casting Styles - Keith Richard. A PowerPoint review to handle various materials and tools. This is a hands-on of at least 7 different casting styles and injuries prone to tippet, and flies. Feel free to bring cameras and any other experience with multiple instructors to provide individual equipment you like to use! Price includes Day 2 WS#40. each will be covered, followed by casting on the lawn. instruction. Let’s have fun and walk away with flies to fish! Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Equipment: Student should bring 7 or 8 wt rod with match- Vise, tools, and materials will be provided. Equipment: Level: All-Level Class Limit: 20 ing weight forward line. FTG Rendezvous ticket included in price. Member fee: $100 NonMember fee: $125 Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Level: All-Level Class Limit: 50 Level: Beginner Class Limit: 16 Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Member fee: Paid with day 1 NonMember fee: Paid with day 1 20. Czech Nymphing - Herb Grenke. Czech Nymphing is a versatile and extremely effective style of fly fishing. You can achieve the depth required at a faster rate and Back to Basics Fly Casting - Jonathan Walter. 11. 16. Women’s Intermediate Fly Tying – Sherry Steele, stay connected to your flies as it drifts through the, “Feed- Mastery of the fundamentals is at the core of all fly casting. Katherine Burns, Charlotte Day, Patty Lueken, and Kate This class is for all levels of casting skills. Beginners will ing Zone”. The technique has enabled European countries Lodge. A one-day workshop specifically geared to tiers to win many International fly fishing competitions. It is rela- get started right, and more experienced casters will find that have taken a Beginner Tying Class, but is open to ALL improved casting through improved fundamentals. A series tively new in the US. Euro Nymphing has many advantages women. Let’s have fun as women teach women new skills! compared to other fly fishing set-ups, such as indicator of drills will be used to progress through fundamental skills Equipment: Vise, tools, light and glasses (if needed). Can as we progress through loop formation, control false casting, fishing.Equipment: Grasshopper imitation, and fly fishing supply tools if needed. Materials are provided to tie specific gear, will be wading. shooting line and changing direction. Basic accuracy may be flies, plus additional choices as well to help students learn to Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. covered if time allows. Equipment: All skill levels, 4-6 wt rod create their own fly designs. Lunch is included. Level: All-Level Class Limit: 8 with matching bright colored fly line and 7 1/2’ 0X leader. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday: Member fee: $80 NonMember fee: $95 Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Level: Advanced-Beginner Class Limit: 10 Level: All-Level Class Limit: 10 Member fee: $85 (includes lunch) NonMember fee: $100 Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Material fee: $20 OTHER 21. Cleaning and Storing Your Tying Materials - Why CASTING ON-WATER ON-WATER and How - Wayne Luallen. This is a hands-on class with each student participating. The benefits of working with Unlocking the Secrets of Single Hand Spey Casting 12. 17. Depth & Speed — Controlling your Fly Presenta- properly cleaned and stored materials will not only be ex- - Bill Wheeler. There are a lot of misconceptions about single tions - Ken Louko. The essence of any fly presentation is hand spey (SHS) casting. No special rods, lines or skills are plained, but will quickly become evident. Students will be controlling fly depth and speed whether fishing a lake, in instructed to bring a selection of their own materials which necessary, and these casts are useful in nearly every fishing saltwater, or on your favorite local stream. Even dry-dropper scenario, even with ample backcast room. They are the most they will return home with in dramatically improved condi- presentations rely on depth and speed. Lake and reservoir tion. Discussion of what to look for and how to select natu- efficient change of direction casts. Good technique allows as well as saltwater fly anglers need to be in tune with this ral tying materials in the local fly shop (or alongside the you to cast nearly the distance of a good overhead cast. We’ll critical element if fishing any type of baitfish pattern. Trout road) will also be considered. Equipment: A specific list discuss a simplified, easy to understand approach to deter- anglers must always take these two critical factors into mining anchor placement in the wind. You will work on both will be supplied later to each student, but such things as consideration, whether stripping a Woolly Bugger or drifting small bird skins, rooster capes and saddles, fur on the skin, 8 natural or light color dyed bucktails, waterfowl feathers, or the “slow” rods with which they can practice it will be great. 32. Fault Identification and Correction - James Som- most any natural material the student wants to bring. Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. mercorn. Correcting casting faults is essential to effective Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Level: Intermediate/Advanced Class Limit: 10 fly casting instruction. The workshop will be based on Level: All-Level Class Limit: 10 Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 CI Exam Performance Task 22. Participants will have op- Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 portunities to perform, identify, and correct the common 27. Teaching Fly Club Members to Teach Casting at the casting faults of Task 22 using Richards’ Six-Step Teaching NON-ANGLING Club Level - Don Simonson. This workshop will instruct Method. The workshop may be useful to candidates for fly club members to teach casting to club members when 22. Dutch Oven Cooking - Lew Evans. Students will instructor certification and to instructors.Equipment: Fly learn how to use and care for a Dutch oven. General there is no certified casting instructor available.Equipment: tackle used to teach. Have a copy of CI Performance Task cooking techniques will be taught as they apply to Dutch oven Students must provide their own rod, reel, line and leader. 22 and Richards’ Six-Step Teaching Method. cooking. You will learn to cook two dishes. The students do all Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. the prep work and cooking. The best part of the class is eating Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 Level: Advanced/Instructor Class Limit: 12 $30 $40 what you have prepared. All food and equipment are provided. Member fee: NonMember fee: Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Level: All-Level Class Limit: 8 28. Fly Casting Skills Challenge Workshop #1: 33. Mentoring Candidates for the CI Exam - Jonathan Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Improve Your Skills! - Jonathan Walter and Bill Walter, Don Simonson and Bill Wheeler. Candidates that are Material fee: $15 Wheeler. The FFI Learning Center’s Fly Casting Skills appropriately mentored for the CI exam have a higher rate of Challenge is a fun, directed way to practice and improve success. This workshop offers guidelines for appropriate men- your casting skills. Each level (Bronze, Silver, Gold) presents toring. If you took the CI exam before 2015, you may not under- increasing challenges. There are no trick casts here, just stand the expectations of the present test. If you are just getting Thursday, July 25 casts you would use in simple to complex fishing situations. started, looking to improve, or wanting to share what you do, CASTING Come join the instructors and have fun improving your cast- join us! In the first hour we will cover the recently published ing! Each workshop will cover the challenge level that the mentoring document. Then we will go through the CI exam 23. Advanced Hauling Workshop - Larry Allen. A study group desires to achieve. Those FFI members that achieve in the different functions of hauling during accuracy and outside making expectations for the performance and teaching skills challenge levels during the workshop will be able tasks clear. Equipment: Pen, notebook, hat and sunglasses. during distance situations. A look at hand positions and to redeem their score sheet for a pin and certificate com- hauling mechanics. A review of common hauling errors Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. memorating their achievement through FFI HQ. Equipment: Level: Instructor Class Limit: 20 for advanced casters. Equipment: If interested in shooting 5-7 wt fly rod, matching line, 7’-9’ leader, hat, sunglasses heads, just bring your instructor rod and line. Optional to Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Material fee: $5 bring a 30-foot 8 weight shooting head for your instructor Level: All-Level Class Limit: 10 rod. Otherwise the class can take turns casting my outfit. Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Material fee: $50 CASTING ON-WATER Level: Advanced Class Limit: 10 34. Casting and Fishing the New Trout Spey Rods - Rick Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 29. Project Healing Waters Casting Instructor Course Williams, Bruce Williams, Todd Somsel, and Mark Huber. We - Day 2 - Tim Lawson and Mark Milkovich. This course is will focus on the new two-hand Trout Spey rods in 2, 3, 4, and 24. Improved Accuracy and Loop Control - Willy designed to teach current and prospective casting instruc- 5-line weights. Plus demonstrate and teach how to cast both George, Gail Donoghue and Paul Gallo. The key differ- tors participating in the Project Healing Waters program slower and faster action Trout Spey rods. We will comprehen- ence between a beginner, intermediate, and advanced how to become more effective teachers. It emphasizes sively cover lines for these small rods (Scandi and Skagit), the caster is their ability to consistently control their loop size efficient casting mechanics resulting in maximum distance new textured TC tips, and Sonar leaders that make the Trout and shape. Your fishing success will improve dramatically and accuracy with minimum effort. Much emphasis will be Spey fishing systems great all-round fishing systems for a once you’ve mastered the techniques, like loop control, that placed on casting mechanics, fault diagnosis, and fault cor- multitude of trout fishing situations.Equipment: Instructors will lead to greater accuracy. We believe that accuracy is the rection. Equipment: Registration preference will be given have numerous Trout Spey rods, but students are encour- Holy Grail of fly casting. Learn from three Master Casting to current volunteer instructors in the PHW program. aged to bring their own Trout Spey system if they have one. Instructors with a wealth of fishing and tournament cast- Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to Noon Students should have some experience two-hand casting for ing experience. This seminar will focus on your personal Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 20 this class. It is not an introductory class for two-hand casting. improvement by keeping the student-to-instructor ratio very Member fee: Paid with day 1 NonMember fee: Paid with day 1 Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. low. Individual assessments will be followed by customized Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 casting instruction, drills, and games that will quickly improve 30. Advanced Fly Casting - Bruce Richards. Advanced Member fee: $60 NonMember fee: $70 your accuracy skills. Equipment: Students should bring their fly casting techniques for better loop control, distance and, favorite 5 or 6 weight fly rod and matching floating fly line accuracy. Equipment: Students should bring their own rod, TYING with a tapered 7 1/2’-9’ leader (2X to 4X tippet) and a yarn fly. reel and line. Beginning Fly Tying Workshop - an Overview - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 35. Jerry Coviello and Christopher Coviello. Did you ever Level: All-Level Class Limit: 8 Intermediate 5 Level: Class Limit: wonder what Fly Tying is? What do the flies imitate and Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 $70 $85 Member fee: NonMember fee: what tools are needed to start tying your own flies? Did you ever want to try to tie your own flies, but didn’t know where A Functional Understanding of The Essentials of 25. 83. Video Casting Analysis with Your Tablet or Smart- to begin? This Fly Tying Overview course will help answer Fly Casting - James Sommercorn. A textbook understand- Learn to film and analyze anyone’s phone – Macauley Lord. these questions and more, plus give you the confidence to ing of “The Essentials of Fly Casting” may be enough to pass casting with a tablet or smartphone. Students don’t need want to tie your own flies. You will learn what the files imitate, the CI written exam; however, the CI Performance Exam and to be certified instructors. Load the Hudl Technique app on what tools and materials are needed to get you started and teaching require a functional understanding of the Essentials your iOS device (Hudl no longer supports Android) or load you will tie two flies in the class. Tools and materials are that allows their application in practice. Such understanding the Coach’s Eye app on your iOS or Android, and be able to included. Equipment: Good attitude and willingness to learn. relies on understanding the dynamics of the Essentials as film, draw lines and save a clip beforehand. We’ll be outside Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. they apply to properties of both the fly line and the fly rod for 2.5 hours and inside for the last hour. Attendees are Level: Beginner Class Limit: 8 which I will use to analyze and explain selected tasks of invited to use what you’ve learned to teach with instructors Member fee: $30 NonMember fee: $40 the Performance Exam. Although open to all, the workshop the next two days at the Free Video Casting Analysis offered may be particularly useful for CI candidates. Equipment: It is at the Casting Clinic. Equipment: Rod, reel, brightly colored classroom only. Please be prepared to take notes. fly line, and smartphone or tablet with video teaching app. 36. How to Become a Better Fly Tying Demonstrator - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Ed Morphis. This is a true workshop, designed for participants Level: All-Level Class Limit: 25 Level: Advanced/Instructor Class Limit: 20 to share with each other their expertise and/or simply to learn Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 what is required to become a quality fly tying demonstrator. Quality tying and quality demonstrating are different skills, and 26. Casting Slow-Action Rods - Tomonori “Bill” 31. Total Loop Control - Walter Simbirski and Chase while both are required to do a good exposition, some great Higashi. Today we see fly rods made of various materi- Jablonski. Students will learn everything they want to tiers are not good demonstrators, and some are not great als, which is a great thing. Glass is not dead at all, slow know about loops and more. We will discuss the charac- tiers, but have the quality to do a great demonstration. The graphite rods found a niche, and new cane material is teristics and applications of different sizes and shapes of workshop focuses on the principles and practices of good “discovered” in areas outside USA. Fast is not the magic loops and demonstrate how to make them. There will be demonstration. If you are an experienced demonstrator, please word anymore, and major rod manufacturers are success- ample opportunity to practice loop control with demonstra- come and help. If you just need to learn, by all means! fully making rods with moderate or slow action rods. This tion and instruction from the instructors. Equipment: Bring Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. workshop will give the participants the guideline to cast your rod, line and a yarn fly. Level: All-Level Class Limit: 50 these “slow” rods and have fun. Various cane and glass Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 rods available to experience, including these made with Level: All-Level Class Limit: 12 “madake” bamboo. Equipment: If the students can bring Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 9 37. Salmon Fly Tying, History and Material Selection - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. face coaching, but it may enable a shorter time to certification. Peggy Brenner. Learn some of the history of salmon flies, Level: Intermediate/Advanced Class Limit: 16 In this class you will learn how to utilize Zoom Video Confer- elevate your understanding of how to select feathers, Member fee: Paid with day 1 NonMember fee: Paid with day 1 encing to remotely mentor or to be mentored. Key topics and provide instruction while you tie some works of art. are: 1) using Zoom as a video conferencing tool, 2) devices Though this is being presented by FFI Women Connect 42. Mindful Fly Fishing - Herb Grenke. Most casting for video conferencing, 3) key features of Zoom, and 4) best group, men are also invited to attend! Equipment: Bring errors are caused by muscle tensions that interfere with practices for video sharing. Please bring your mobile device to your vise, tools, thread and a desire to learn. properly presenting the fly. Philip Caputo, in his book, this class. Equipment: Bring your mobile device to class. Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Rumors of War ), tells us how fly fishing healed his PTSD Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 6 caused by serving in combat. Phil said, “Casting requires Level: Instructors/Instr. Candidate Class Limit: 20 Member fee: $80 NonMember fee: $95 a tranquil heart”. Indeed, casting creates a tranquil heart. Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 Material fee: $15 Sports Psychologist Robert Nediffer taught me how to train Material fee: $5 athletes to be mindful. They achieved many national honors. 38. Bronze Fly Tying Skills Award Workshop - Jerry You will learn the correct concentration style to activate 47. Where Are They and What Are They Doing? Under- Coviello. This workshop is designed to assist students to the muscles used to make a good cast. Muscles that cause standing Freshwater Fish Behavior to Become a Better Fly learn the fly tying techniques necessary for tying the required casting errors will be relaxed. Recent studies about mindful- Angler - Dave Peterson. This workshop focuses on un- flies specified for receiving the Bronze Fly Tying Skills Award. ness teach us how to control emotions that limit our ability derstanding the behavior of freshwater fish and the practical Three of the five required patterns for the program will be to properly present a fly. We will use wands and training implications of fish behavior for the fly angler. The workshop taught with emphasis on techniques that apply to the required rods to help us learn quickly and efficiently. We will learn covers sensory abilities, cognitive abilities and learning, as three tier selected patterns that must be submitted. Students mindful techniques in the classroom. We will then go to the well as time, temperature, oxygen levels, and their effect on will develop skills of application to a wide range of patterns. river and use these techniques to catch fish.Equipment: behavior. We will also examine feeding behavior and repro- Equipment: Standard fly tying tools and variety of thread 6/0 Favorite rod and grasshopper fly, (bring a tranquil heart). ductive behavior. Finally, the need for shelter, comfort and or smaller. All other materials are included with the workshop. Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. food and their implications for locating fish will be discussed. Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Level: All-Level Class Limit: 8 Thursday: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 Member fee: $60 NonMember fee: $75 Level: Beginner/Intermediate Class Limit: 50 Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 Member fee: $25 NonMember fee: $35 43. Euro Nymphing - William T. Mangan. Learn the ON-WATER fundamentals of Euro Nymphing! We will go over fly rods, sighters vs indicators, weighted flies vs split shot, dropper Nymph Fishing the “Right Angle” Method - Ken Friday, July 26 39. system configurations, knots, fly selection and more. Explain Louko. Experienced Great Lakes Tributary Steelhead anglers the different leader formulas and you will build the leader you CASTING know the value of fishing the “Right Angle” method; however, will fish with. On the stream we will learn proper casting pre- this method is not limited to fly fishing for Steelhead. Timing 48. Smoothness and Speed - Pietro Brunelli and Les sentation tactics, learn the advantage of Euro Nymphing line the speed of the current with the depth and speed of your fly Rosenthal. A methodic approach to better develop casting over regular floating line, how to fish different positions on the directly under an indicator is critical for success. Any trout or smoothness and consistency, all focused to be able to man- stream, strike detection, how to fish different water types and river bass fly angler that fish nymph set ups should learn this age line speed and the implications in fly casting.Equip - more. 9 ½’ to 10 ½’, 2 to 4 wt rod, Euro Nymphing technique if they intend to use indicators while presenting their Equipment: ment: Fly rods between 4 and 8 wt; good casting fly line or regular floating line, waders, fishing license and fishing gear. flies.Equipment: Bring your own basic fishing gear and fly fish- control for students. Will allow a real intermediate caster. I will have the leader material, flies and sighter material. ing equipment including rod (9’- 5 or 6wt single hand w/WF- Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Floating fly line, or Trout Spey with Rio Switch Chucker fly line), Thursday: Level: Advanced Class Limit: 14 All-Level 8 reel, lines, leaders, flies, indicators, all other terminal tackle. Level: Class Limit: Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Member fee: $75 NonMember fee: $90 Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to Noon Material fee: $5 Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 49. Saltwater Skills - Jeff Ferguson and Stacy Lynn. Member fee: $75 NonMember fee: $90 Learn and practice the skills required to execute efficiently OTHER and effectively in the saltwater elements. Skills to be 40. Streamside Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone: 44. Some Spots Really Are Better - Brad Eaton. Learn covered include: The Saltwater Quickcast, techniques Day 2 - Elizabeth Donahue. In this course we will spend about why fish change locations and the reasons certain for the wind, strategies for accuracy at all distances and time in the classroom and on the water exploring the ecol- spots attract more fish. This seminar will show you how to casting angles, and line management. Being prepared and ogy of the Greater Yellowstone with an emphasis on trout identify the “higher percentage spots” and improve your having a plan before the cast is initiated is critical for suc- water ecology. On the water training will include a group en- odds on the water. A presentation will describe visual cess in the salt. Equipment: Know basic casting skills, loop tomology field session covering the basics of ethical sample recognition features and reasons why these features are formation and control, basic line management including collecting and minimally invasive streamside maneuvering. important. Interactive discussion will follow to analyze ac- shooting and stripping. 7, 8 or 9 weight rod outfits with a Hatch matching and other traditional trout stalking tech- tual stream examples and applying key points. Equipment: saltwater leader are recommended. Equipment provided if niques will be practiced, so all will get hands on experi- Content geared towards beginners and intermediate, but requested, instructor will contact students prior to the Expo. ence as angling entomologists and learn skills to be better should be useful to all levels. Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. riparian stewards. Fishing techniques tailored to the varying Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 10 conditions experienced in the GYE will also be covered. Level: Beginner/Intermediate Class Limit: 15 Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Equipment: For the on-the-water day, students should bring Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 their full fishing kit, including waders and boots (or stuff you 50. Presentation Casts for Trout. - Phil Gay. The class can wet wade in comfortably for several hours- here in MT it 45. Angling for Wild Waters: Advocacy, Conservation, will demonstrate and then hands-on teach the following can sometimes get cold suddenly, so be aware), fly rod and & Stewardship for the Modern Fly Fisher - Elizabeth Do- casts: Reach, Circle, Downstream, Check, Reach-check, reel, and a selection of leader, tippet, and flies. Feel free to nahue. In this workshop, we’ll tackle the role of the angler Bounce back, Parachute, Curves, Bump and wiggle bring cameras and any other equipment you like to use! as an advocate for the sport. Fly fishing is more popular mends, Downstream reach, Downstream reach check, Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to Noon now than ever before, and with this many feet now wet, its Tuck and Downstream roll ahead. Written description of Level: All-Level Class Limit: 15 critical for the angling world to come together and priori- these cast will be provided to each student. Equipment: Member fee: Paid with day 1 NonMember fee: Paid with day 1 tize conservation of our natural resources. Topics covered Participants should have a 4,5 or 6 weight rod with 7.5 foot will include the role of social media and our various com- 4 x leader and yarn fly. A DVD of these casts will be avail- 41. Women’s Fly Fishing - Day 2 - Molly Semenik, munities; conservation research sources and topics from able for purchase if interested. Robin Brown, Mona Brewer, Kristy Aserland, Trisha AIS to Hoot Owl restrictions; local land laws and access Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Campbell, Heather Hodson, Shauna Williams, Sam Deck- issues; and some ideas on how to instill a passion for both Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 er, and Kara Tripp. The Women’s Fly Fishing Workshop is fishing and conservation in our next generation of anglers. Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 an educational experience, teaching both general concepts Equipment: This is going to be more of a lecture/discus- and specific skills, to women anglers who have had some sion, so if any students need glasses, etc., or want to take 51. Fly Casting Skills Challenge Workshop #2: Improve experience with fly fishing. Skills taught will be catered to indi- notes, they should plan accordingly. Your Casting! - Jonathan Walter, Rick Williams and Bill vidual needs. This workshop runs over a two-day period. Topics Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Wheeler. FFI Learning Center’s Fly Casting Skills Challenge include gear and equipment, rigging and knots, aquatic insects, Level: All-Level Class Limit: 40 is a fun, directed way to practice and improve your casting casting, fly selection and presentation, and reading the water. Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 skills. Each level (Bronze, Silver, Gold) presents increasing chal- Each day includes classroom and on-the-water instruction. The lenges. There are no trick casts here, just casts you would use instructors are a group of passionate female fly fishers including 46. Remote Coaching via ZOOM Video Conferencing in simple to complex fishing situations. Come join the instruc- long time anglers, certified casting instructors and professional - Mary Ann Dozer and Jim Wigington. A barrier facing the tors and have fun improving your casting! Each workshop will guides. Equipment: Waders, boots, 4 to 6 wt fly rod, line with 2 growth of the CICP casting community is the remote differ- cover the challenge level that the group desires to achieve. leaders and fly box. A list of suggested flies will be mailed to all ences between mentor and student. Online Video Conferenc- FFI members that achieve skills challenge levels during the students. If necessary, fly rods can be provided. ing removes this barrier. It won’t eliminate the need for face to workshop will be able to redeem their score sheet for a pin 10 and certificate commemorating their achievement through FFI TYING technology, as well as where and why certain tools and HQ. Equipment: 5-7 wt. fly rod, matching line, 7-9 ft. leader. 58. Effective Saltwater Flies - Stephen Johnson. We will materials are used. We will explore spot and stalk angling; Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. be tying Saltwater flies that work including, Puglisi style baitfish pre-trip preparations and post-trip clean up. Basic stream- Level: All-Level Class Limit: 10 patterns, Gartside gurglers, and various bonefish patterns. If side entomology and hatch matching will be practiced. We Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 time allows, we will tie freshwater equivalents of the men- will dive into trout behavior and physiological consider- Material fee: $50 tioned flies.Equipment: Standard fly tying tools. This includes ations, as well as the roles of hunting, conservation, and the vice, light, whip finisher, bodkin, bobbin, hackle plier, scissors. impacts of social media. There will be an opportunity for 52. Easy Distance Casting - Jim Wigington. Distance The materials fee will cover threads and other materials used. participants to compare rods of differential rod feel.Equip - casting should be easy and relaxing. Unfortunately, making Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. ment: Bring a full fishing kit, waders and boots (or stuff you longer casts is often a struggle for fly fishers for a variety Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 6 can wet wade in comfortably for several hours- here in MT it of reasons. A common problem is for casters to try to cast Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 can sometimes get cold suddenly, so be aware), fly rod and farther by merely applying more force without making other Material fee: $10 reel, a selection of leader, tippet, and flies. Feel free to bring adjustments. Learn how to adjust the way in which you cast cameras and any other equipment you like to use! Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at longer distances to make the casts more effective and Introduction to Tying the Classic Atlantic Salmon Fly less tiring. You will learn how to shoot line effectively and 59. Level: All-Level Class Limit: 20 Part 2: Bodies, Underwings & Throats - Jim Ferguson. Part Member fee: $75 NonMember fee: $90 build skills prerequisite to learning the double-haul (but 2 covers construction of the thread base, underbody (style, double-haul casting will not be covered). Equipment: Bring taper), different body treatments (single & multiple sections, your own 5-7 weight single hand fly rod, weight forward fly body veiling’s, ribbing, body hackle, body mane), underwing OTHER line and 9 foot tapered leader. Yarn flies will be provided. treatments, collars & throats and techniques of tying in 64. Beginning Fly Fishing Knot Tying - Todd Hegges- Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. these elements. Equipment: Vice, scissors, dubbing needle, tad and Lyth Hartz. Learn the knots you will need on the Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 6 whip finish tool, dubbing twister, thread bobbin, white or water when fly fishing. This is a hands-on class in which Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 primrose 8/0 thread, any other standard tools, and patience. you will learn the fly fishing knots from fly line to tippet. Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Instructor is a member of Fly Fishers International. All 53. Six Steps Method of Casting Flaw Analysis/Cure Level: Intermediate/Advanced Class Limit: 8 materials are provided. - Bruce Richards. This workshop will provide hands on Member fee: $60 NonMember fee: $75 Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. experience using the very effective Six Steps Method of Material fee: $15 Level: Beginner/Intermediate Class Limit: 15 fixing fly casting problems.Equipment: This workshop is Member fee: $25 NonMember fee: $35 best suited for instructor candidates or current instructors. 60. Tying Grant Style Flies with Todd Collins and James No equipment is needed. Flaherty - Todd Collins and James Flaherty. An in-depth 65. Fly Fishing with Tenkara Rod - Luong Tam. Fly fish- Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. study of the Woven Hair hackle and Grant’s unique nymph ing with Tenkara rod is a modern way to fly fish because it Level: Instructor Class Limit: 12 body flies. Each The techniques are not hard to master, but is more fun and more effective in catching fish with simple Member fee: $70 NonMember fee: $85 are different than any in conventional fly tying. Every stu- tools and methods. Presentation will cover in depth pros dent will weave several hair hackles and construct several and cons of tenkara rod and line systems. Different casting 54. Dry Fly Accuracy - Pietro Brunelli. Normal Fishing nymph bodies. Sign up for a fun and informative day tying techniques have developed around the world, focusing on situations with the dry fly in medium to small rivers require and learning about the man and his flies.Equipment: Basic dry fly manipulation and tactical nymphing. Hands on cast- a very precise, stealthy approach to the fish. The aim of tying tools including bobbins, scissors, vise (clamp type ing follows seminar. Equipment: Rod will be provided. this workshop is to analyze and teach the most important preferred). If you have a pedestal vise, bring a c-clamp to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. anti-drag casts, with a particular attention to the overall ac- secure it to the table top for the weaving process. All other Level: All-Level Class Limit: 25 curacy needed to reach on target with high precision. materials are included. Students will have the opportunity to Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. purchase a complete kit of tools, instruction manual and ma- Material fee: $10 Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 12 terials to take home to continue to tie for an additional $30. $50 $60 Member fee: NonMember fee: Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 66. A Comprehensive Introduction to Fly Fishing – Day Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 10 1 - Dutch Baughman, Barry Webster and David Boyer. 55. Fly Casting Made Easy - Bob Jacklin. This basic fly Member fee: $60 NonMember fee: $75 Featuring a discussion of a comprehensive array of all casting workshop is geared for beginners and intermediate Material fee: $25 topics pertaining to fly fishing. Each fly fishing topic will anglers. Jacklin believes the rudiments and principles of all be explored to the interest level of the students. Students good fly casting and fly fishing are found in the three basic fly 61. Every Way to Tie Everyday Parachutes - Scott San- should expect significant “hands-on” experience with knots, casts: The Roll Cast, Pickup and Laydown, and the False Cast. chez. Parachute patterns are among the most favored flies rigging, fly tying, and casting. A few hours will be spent He covers these three basic fly casts to teach timing, line for anglers and trout. However, most tiers have trouble outside casting. Topics will include Fly Fishing Equipment, control and accuracy. He also explains and demonstrates the tying them. Scott will show a wide range of parachute Knots, Rigging, Fish Behavior, River anatomy and structure, theory and principles of the casts used in everyday fishing styles and techniques that will enhance your tying and Entomology, Casting, Setting the hook, playing a fish, like the Reach Cast and the Aerial Mend. Jacklin also covers angling experiences. Equipment: All your basic tying tools handling a fish, reviving a fish, releasing a fish, fly fishing the double haul and his special trick casts used in difficult are needed including toating hackle pliers. Safety, Fly Fishing Etiquette, preparing for a fly fishing trip. sections of stream. Equipment: Fly rod and reel with floating Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Equipment: bring a fly rod and reel if you have one, as well line and leader. A practice fly or yarn will be furnished. Level: Intermediate/Advanced Class Limit: 12 as fly tying vise and tools. Price includes Day 2, WS#81 Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Member fee: $60 NonMember fee: $75 Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Level: Beginner/Intermediate Class Limit: 8 Material fee: $10 Level: Beginner Class Limit: 25 Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Member fee: $25 NonMember fee: $35 56. Effortless Casting - Mark Milkovich and Gary Turri. ON-WATER Real World Trout Spey Applications...From Swing- 67. Tenkara/Keiryu Modern Methods - Naif Khoury. Experienced casters generally cast harder and faster than 62. Bring your tenkara rod(s) and materials if you already have the cast requires. When you reduce that effort, it is easier ing Flies to Dry Fly Fishing - Ken Louko. Dry fly fish with a Trout Spey rod? Or, drift nymphs under an indicator? them, we will rig/re-rig them. If none, we will handle my gear to fine tune your casting motions in order to make longer, so that you may form your equipment desires and needs. more accurate casts. More effortless casting will not only Why not just stick with swinging soft hackles or a woolly bugger? Isn’t that what Trout Spey is all about? This If you are an experienced fly fisher, we will explore using look better, it can actually be better. You will get a good tenkara to expand your fly-fishing enjoyment. If you are a start in the workshop and leave with the instructional workshop explores the versatility of using a lightweight #3 tenkara master, you can take over the class. Equipment: I materials to continue the progress on your own. Trout Spey rod (as well as the line set ups to achieve more with this type of rod); especially, if you are considering will provide a multi-page pamphlet with space for you to take Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. notes. Use your smartphone to take pictures of equipment. Intermediate 8 getting into Trout Spey or want to expand your Trout Spey Level: Class Limit: Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Member fee: $70 NonMember fee: $85 applications. Equipment: Bring basic fly fishing gear and equipment including Trout Spey rod, reel, lines, leaders, Level: All-Level Class Limit: 20 Member fee: $30 NonMember fee: $40 CASTING ON-WATER flies, indicators, all other terminal tackle. Friday: 8:00 a.m. to Noon 57. Spey Casting Faults & Fixes - Lee Davison. Lee Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 Davison, (MCI, THCI, Ballistic Flylines) will review the most Member fee: $75 NonMember fee: $90 common Spey Casting faults and their remedies. Some Saturday, July 27 time will also be spent helping each student individually. CASTING Equipment: Bring your own Spey rod, line and reel. Wad- 63. Technical Trout Tactics: Traditional Techniques for ers might be a good idea, as well as sunscreen and a hat. the Trout Hunter - Elizabeth Donahue. This course will 68. Cast Your Way to Better Fishing - Mary Ann Dozer, Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. dive into the history of trout fishing and equip the modern and Mona Brewer. Fishing isn’t always about catching, but Level: All-Level Class Limit: 5 angler with the traditional foundation to better enjoy the catching is fun. Many anglers miss opportunities for fish Member fee: $60 NonMember fee: $75 world of fly fishing. We will cover the basics of equipment because they were not able to deliver the fly. In this class 11 the instructors will 1) Provide suggestions for improvements Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 12 ON-WATER to your basic cast via video, 2) Various fishing situations will Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 79. Technical Trout Tactics: Traditional Techniques for the be discussed. You will learn how to control whether the fly Teenaged Trout Hunter - Elizabeth Donahue. This course or line land first – regardless if you are casting 20 or 40 feet. 73. Unraveling the Mysteries of Curve Casts – Jim will dive into the history of trout fishing and equip the teen- You’ll walk away with the tools to improve your cast, so that Wigington. Curve casts are a valuable skill for fly fishers aged angler with the traditional foundation to better enjoy the casting is easy, and your fly and line are landing in concert to present flies around obstacles, to fish streamers along world of fly fishing as they develop their craft. We will cover for the best natural drift. Equipment: Bring you fly rod, with ledges, and obtain drag-free drifts in complex current the basics of equipment technology, also where and why cer- matched line and 7.5 0 X leader. situation. In addition, they are fun to do. Participants in this tain tools/materials are used. We will explore spot and stalk Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. class will learn a range of curve casts and how to use them angling; pre-trip preparations and post-trip clean up. Basic Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 in varying fishing situations.Equipment: 5 to 7 weight fly streamside entomology and hatch matching will be practiced. Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 rod with weight forward line and 0X 7.5’ leader. Includes trout behavior and physiological considerations, as Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. well as the roles of hunting, conservation, and the impacts of 69. Advanced Mending for Success - Michael Kelly. Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 6 social media. There will be an opportunity for participants to We will concentrate on more advanced mending tactics Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 compare rods of differential rod feel. This course will be tai- and techniques, combining individual mends into “Stack” or lored to the teen angler and won’t be as in-depth as the adult simultaneous mending, i.e. throwing, 2-3 individual mends at 74. Fear No Tree - Roll Cast - Molly Semenik. Learn- class. Equipment: Students should bring their full fishing kit, the same time for maximum drag avoidance and elimina- ing the Roll Cast can get you fishing fast and effectively. including waders and boots (or stuff you can wet wade in tion. We will again go over types of mending while dry fly or This cast can be used for many fly fishing situations and comfortably for several hours- here in MT it can sometimes nymph fishing to get maximum drag free floats.Equipment: is the base cast for all Spey casts. If you are planning on get cold suddenly, so be aware), fly rod and reel, and a selec- Students MUST have basic mending skills at the beginner playing with the Fly Fishing Casting Skills Challenge, this tion of leader, tippet, and flies. Feel free to bring cameras level, either have taken my earlier Fundamental Course, or class would be great. This class is for the beginner to and any other equipment you like to use! If parents want have those foundation mending skills already in place. Bring advanced angler. Equipment: Fly rod and reel any size up to attend, we will ask for you to respectfully allow students your own rig (rod, reel, line, 2x leaders (at least 2 count). to a 7 weight. Include a leader 8-9 feet long 01 or 2x. space to learn without distraction. Students must sign the FFI Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on-water waiver to attend (will be provided to you). Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 8 Level: All-Level Class Limit: 8 Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to Noon Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 Member fee: $70 NonMember fee: $85 Level: All-Level (Ages 13+) Class Limit: 15 Member fee: $75 NonMember fee: $90 70. Learn the Most Elegant Skill and Fly Casting, CASTING ON-WATER The Double Haul – Les Rosenthal and Pietro Brunelli. OTHER Emphasizing the fundamental skills of straight line path, 75. THCI Exam Preparation - Rick Williams, Bruce Wil- Light, the Aquatic Environment, Fish Vision, & Fly smooth acceleration, appropriate casting arc, proper pause, liams, Todd Somsel, and Mark Huber. This workshop will take 80. Design - Paul Beckmann. In this workshop, the visual en- and eliminating slack; this class will teach you your missing prospective THCI candidates through the various performance vironment of fish will be dissected. The goal is to give the fundamental skills, leading to improved ability to false cast- and teaching tasks on the THCI exam. Students and instruc- participants new ways to think when selecting and design- ing, determining how much line you can carry, shooting line, tors will cast various tasks and discuss how to approach the ing flies. The visual capability of the fish, the absorption of then finally teach you, with your own rod, how to double test and each task systematically. Common casting faults, and light by pigments in a fly, and in the underwater environ- haul. You will learn how to teach yourself to improve your their corrections will also be demonstrated and discussed. The workshop is thorough and will be a great asset for anyone ment, and the effects of light reflection and scattering will double haul skills when you get home! Equipment: Bring be introduced. This workshop is guaranteed to generate a your 5 to 7 weight rod and reel with a size matched, bright preparing for the THCI exam. Equipment: Students should few surprises even in the most experienced fly fisher! floating line and the 7 1/2-foot tapered leader with a bright bring their own two-hand outfits, though the instructors will Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to Noon yarn fly. Skills: false casting tight loops at 40 feet. Shoot line have several other rods and lines that students can try. Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 20 forward and back. Your desire to cast further with less effort. Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Intermediate 12 Member fee: $30 NonMember fee: $40 Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Level: Class Limit: $70 $85 Material fee: $15 Level: Intermediate Class Limit: 12 Member fee: NonMember fee: Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 TYING 81. A Comprehensive Introduction to Fly Fishing – Day 2 - Dutch Baughman, Barry Webster and David Boyer. Fly Casting Skills Workshop: Improve Your Casting! - 76. Beginning Fly Tying - Carl Wuebben. Learn the basics 71. Featuring a discussion of a comprehensive array of all Jonathan Walter, Molly Semenik and Rick Williams. The FFI to get you started in fly tying, including types of tools and topics pertaining to fly fishing, each topic will be discussed Learning Center’s Fly Casting Skills Challenge is a fun, directed how to use them, materials and how to keep them on the and explored to the interest level of the students. Students way to practice and improve your casting skills. Each level hook, plus tips I’ve learned throughout the years. Four flies should expect significant “hands-on” experience with knots, (Bronze, Silver, Gold) presents increasing challenges in casting will be tied as time permits. Equipment: Basic Tools - (Vise rigging, fly tying, and casting. A few hours will be spent skills for fishing. There are no trick casts here, just casts you any type or brand will do) - 6/0 or 140 denier thread any outside casting. Topics to discuss will include Fly Fishing would use in simple to complex fishing situations. Come join brand or color - Bobbin -Bodkin - Scissors with pointy tip pre- Equipment, Knots, Rigging, Fish Behavior, River anatomy the instructors and have fun improving your casting! Each work- ferred - Threader - Whip Finisher - Light (optional) with magni- and structure, Entomology, Casting, Setting the hook, play- shop will cover the challenge level that the group desires to fier preferred - A bottle of drinking water for you to drink. ing a fish, handling a fish, reviving a fish, releasing a fish, Fly achieve. FFI members that achieve skills challenge levels dur- Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. fishing Safety, Fly Fishing Etiquette, and preparing for a fly ing the workshop will be able to redeem their score sheet for a Level: Beginner Class Limit: 6 fishing trip.Equipment: Bring a fly rod and reel if you have pin and certificate commemorating their achievement through Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 one, as well as a fly tying vise and basic tying tools. FFI HQ. Equipment: 5-7 wt. fly rod, matching line, 7-9 ft. leader. Material fee: $10 Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Level: Beginner Class Limit: 25 Level: All-Level Class Limit: 10 77. Using Natural Fly Tying Materials - Ed Berg. A closer Member fee: Paid with day 1 NonMember fee: Paid with Member fee: $50 NonMember fee: $60 look at the natural materials used in fly tying that make your day 1 Material fee: $50 tying a pleasure or a pain. Includes a demonstration of Marc Petitjean’s Magic Tools. Equipment: Basic fly tying equipment. Fly Fishing Safety and Fly Fishing Etiquette - Dutch Distance Casting, the Ultimate Skill - Les Rosenthal Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 82. 72. Baughman, Barry Webster and David Boyer. This and Pietro Brunelli. Distance casting is the most difficult Level: Beginner/Intermediate Class Limit: 15 workshop will discuss a thorough review of (1) Fly Fishing skill because so many casting skills occur sequentially in Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 Safety guidelines to include: preparation for the weather, stay less than a second. The further the cast, the bigger affect Material fee: $5 hydrated, Hook Safety, Fish Safety, Wading Safety, Wading your fundamental casting deficiencies create. Class will Safety-equipment, Wading-read the water, Wading-with a begin with the fundamentals, quickly progress to false 78. Why Fish Chironomids - Bob Wolfe. Chironomids buddy; (2) Fly Fishing Etiquette guidelines to include: On the casting, shooting line forward and back, double hauling, make up more than 50% of a trout’s annual diet in lakes and River, Off the River, Float Fly Fishers, Fly Fishing from a Flats then teach you how to teach yourself skills to continue ponds, and in many still waters, nearly 100% in spring. This Boat, Watercraft, and guidelines for tipping your Guide. at home techniques to improve your distance cast. If you workshop is designed to take the mystery and intimidation Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. sign up ahead of time, I will email you a class outline. out of fishing Chironomids. You will learn to tie highly effec- Level: All-Level Class Limit: 20 Equipment: Recommend taking the double haul class tive Chironomid patterns including “Trout Candy” and the Member fee: $25 NonMember fee: $35 before this one! Best results will be achieved if you can techniques to successfully fish them.Equipment: Bring a vise false cast 40 feet, shoot line forward and back, and double capable of tying small flies. A tying light is recommended. haul. Bring your 5 to 8 wt balanced rod and reel set up Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a brightly colored floating line. Put on a 5’ foot leader Level: Intermediate/Advanced Class Limit: 10 tapered to 15-20-pound test. A smile will take you a long Member fee: $40 NonMember fee: $50 way in life. Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 12 Workshop Registration # Title-Presenter(s) Student Initial Member Fee: NonMember Fee: Material Fee: Subtotal 1. Women’s Beginning Fly Tying - Day 1: Patty Lueken, Kathy Crofts, Patty Gnuse, Charlotte Day, Oleta Webb, Gretchen Beatty, Jane McKevitt, Joyce White, Peggy Brenner, Elsie Rhoades, Katherine Burns and Kate Lodge. ... ______$145 $170 $35 ______2. FFI Leadership Development Workshop: Dutch Baughman...... ______FREE FREE ______3. Fundamentals of Slack Line Presentations: Paul Gallo and Gail Donoghue...... ______$50 $60 ______4. Fundamental Mending for Success: Michael Kelly...... ______$50 $60 ______5. Introduction to Casting Instructor Certification: James Sommercorn...... ______$40 $50 ______6. Saltwater Strategies - Sight Fishing from a Flats Skiff: Jim Schneider...... ______$50 $60 ______7. MCI Exam Preparation: Bryan Martin and Sekhar Bahadur...... ______$50 $60 ______8. Project Healing Waters Casting Instructor Course - Day 1: Tim Lawson and Mark Milkovich...... ______$100 $100 ______9. Prepararation and Expectations for the CI Test: David Barron and Tim Gross...... ______$50 $60 ______10. Casting Styles: Keith Richard...... ______$50 $60 ______11. Back to Basics Fly Casting: Jonathan Walter...... ______$50 $60 ______12. Unlocking the Secrets of Single Hand Spey Casting: Bill Wheeler...... ______$60 $70 ______13. Trout Spey Casting, Tips and Tactics: Chris King...... ______$60 $70 ______14. Trout & a Little Salt: Steve Bailey...... ______$40 $50 $10 ______15. Women’s Beginning Fly Tying - Day 2: Patty Lueken, Kathy Crofts and Patty Gnuse...... ______Price included with WS#1 ______16. Women’s Intermediate Fly Tying: Sherry Steele, Katherine Burns, Charlotte Day, Patty Lueken, & Kate Lodge...... ______$85 $100 $20 ______17. Depth & Speed - Controlling your Fly Presentations: Ken Louko...... ______$75 $90 ______18. Women’s Fly Fishing - Day 1: Molly Semenik, Robin Brown, Mona Brewer, Kristy Aserland, Trisha Campbell, Heather Hodson, Shauna Williams, Sam Decker, and Kara Tripp...... ______$275 $300 ______19. Streamside Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone - Day 1: Elizabeth Donahue...... ______$100 $125 ______20. Czech Nymphing: Herb Grenke...... ______$80 $95 ______21. Cleaning and Storing Your Tying Materials-Why and How: Wayne Luallen...... ______$50 $60 ______22. Dutch Oven Cooking: Lew Evans...... ______$50 $60 $15 ______23. Advanced Hauling Workshop: Larry Allen...... ______$50 $60 ______24. Improved Accuracy and Loop Control: Willy George, Gail Donoghue and Paul Gallo...... ______$50 $60 ______25. A Functional Understanding of The Essentials of Fly Casting: James Sommercorn...... ______$50 $60 ______26. Casting Slow-Action Rods: Tomonori “Bill” Higashi...... ______$50 $60 ______27. Teaching Fly Club Members to Teach Casting at the Club Level: Don Simonson...... ______$30 $40 ______28. Fly Casting Skills Challenge Workshop #1: Improve Your Skills: Jonathan Walter and Bill Wheeler...... ______$50 $60 $50 ______29. Project Healing Waters Casting Instructor Course - Day 2: Tim Lawson and Mark Milkovich...... ______Price included with WS#7 ______30. Advanced Fly Casting: Bruce Richards...... ______$70 $85 ______83. Video Casting Analysis with Your Tablet or Smartphone – Macauley Lord...... ______$50 $60 ______31. Total Loop Control: Walter Simbirski and Chase Jablonski...... ______$50 $60 ______32. Fault Identification and Correction: James Sommercorn...... ______$50 $60 ______33. Mentoring Candidates for the CI Exam: Jonathan Walter, Don Simonson and Bill Wheeler...... ______$50 $60 $5 ______34. Casting and Fishing the New Trout Spey Rods: Rick Williams, Bruce Williams, Todd Somsel and Mark Huber. .. ______$60 $70 ______35. Beginning Fly Tying Workshop - an Overview: Jerry Coviello and Christopher Coviello...... ______$30 $40 ______36. How to Become a Better Fly Tying Demonstrator: Ed Morphis...... ______$40 $50 ______37. Salmon Fly Tying, History and Material Selection: Peggy Brenner...... ______$80 $95 $15 ______38. Bronze Fly Tying Skills Award Workshop: Jerry Coviello...... ______$40 $50 ______39. Nymph Fishing the “Right Angle” Method: Ken Louko...... ______$75 $90 ______40. Streamside Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone: Day 2: Elizabeth Donahue...... ______Price included with WS#19 ______41. Women’s Fly Fishing - Day 2: Molly Semenik, Robin Brown, Mona Brewer, Kristy Aserland, Trisha Campbell, Heather Hodson, Shauna Williams, Sam Decker, and Kara Tripp...... ______Price included with WS#18 ______42. Mindful Fly Fishing: Herb Grenke...... ______$60 $75 ______43. Euro Nymphing: William T. Mangan...... ______$75 $90 $5 ______44. Some Spots Really Are Better: Brad Eaton...... ______$40 $50 ______45. Angling for Wild Waters: Advocacy, Conservation, & Stewardship for the Modern Fly Fisher: Elizabeth Donahue...... ______$40 $50 ______46. Remote Coaching via ZOOM Video Conferencing: Mary Ann Dozer and Jim Wigington...... ______$40 $50 $5 ______47. Where Are They and What Are They Doing? Understanding Freshwater Fish Behavior to Become a Better Fly Angler: Dave Peterson...... ______$25 $35 ______48. Smoothness and Speed: Pietro Brunelli and Les Rosenthal...... ______$50 $60 ______49. Saltwater Skills: Jeff Ferguson and Stacy Lynn...... ______$50 $60 ______13 # Title-Presenter(s) Student Initial Member Fee: NonMember Fee: Material Fee: Subtotal 50. Presentation Casts for Trout: Phil Gay...... ______$50 $60 ______51. Fly Casting Skills Challenge Workshop #2: Improve Your Casting: Jonathan Walter, Rick Williams and Bill Wheeler...... ______$50 $60 $50 ______52. Easy Distance Casting: Jim Wigington...... ______$50 $60 ______53. Six Step Method of Casting Flaw Analysis/Cure: Bruce Richards...... ______$70 $85 ______54. Dry Fly Accuracy: Pietro Brunelli...... ______$50 $60 ______55. Fly Casting Made Easy: Bob Jacklin...... ______$50 $60 ______56. Effortless Casting: Mark Milkovich and Gary Turri...... ______$70 $85 ______57. Spey Casting Faults & Fixes: Lee Davison...... ______$60 $75 ______58. Effective Saltwater Flies: Stephen Johnson...... ______$40 $50 $10 ______59. Introduction to Tying the Classic Atlantic Salmon Fly Part 2-Bodies, Underwings & Throats: Jim Ferguson...... ______$60 $75 $15 ______60. Tying Grant Style Flies with Todd Collins and James Flaherty: Todd Collins and James Flaherty...... ______$60 $75 $25 ______61. Every Way to Tie Everyday Parachutes: Scott Sanchez...... ______$60 $75 $10 ______62. Real World Trout Spey Applications...From Swinging Flies to Dry Fly Fishing: Ken Louko...... ______$75 $90 ______63. Technical Trout Tactics: Traditional Techniques for the Trout Hunter: Elizabeth Donahue...... ______$75 $90 ______64. Beginning Fly Fishing Knot Tying: Todd Heggestad and Lyth Hartz...... ______$25 $35 ______65. Fly Fishing with Tenkara Rod: Luong Tam...... ______$50 $60 $10 ______66. A Comprehensive Introduction to Fly Fishing – Day 1: Dutch Baughman, Barry Webster and David Boyer. ... ______$25 $35 ______67. Tenkara/Keiryu Modern Methods: Naif Khoury...... ______$30 $40 ______68. Cast Your Way to Better Fishing: Mary Ann Dozer and Mona Brewer...... ______$50 $60 ______69. Advanced Mending for Success: Michael Kelly...... ______$50 $60 ______70. Learn the Most Elegant Skill and Fly Casting, The Double Haul: Pietro Brunelli...... ______$50 $60 ______71. Fly Casting Skills Workshop: Improve Your Casting: Jonathan Walter, Molly Semenik and Rick Williams...... ______$50 $60 $50 ______72. Distance Casting, the Ultimate Skill: Les Rosenthal and Pietro Brunelli...... ______$50 $60 ______73. Unraveling the Mysteries of Curve Casts: Jim Wigington...... ______$50 $60 ______74. Fear No Tree - Roll Cast: Molly Semenik...... ______$70 $85 ______75. THCI Exam Preparation: Rick Williams, Bruce Williams, Todd Somsel and Mark Huber...... ______$70 $85 ______76. Beginning Fly Tying: Carl Wuebben...... ______$40 $50 $10 ______77. Using Natural Fly Tying Materials: Ed Berg...... ______$40 $50 $5 ______78. Why Fish Chironomids: Bob Wolfe...... ______$40 $50 ______79. Technical Trout Tactics: Traditional Techniques for the Teenaged Trout Hunter: Elizabeth Donahue...... ______$75 $90 ______80. Light, the Aquatic Environment, Fish Vision, & Fly Design: Paul Beckmann...... ______$30 $40 $15 ______81. A Comprehensive Introduction to Fly Fishing – Day 2: Dutch Baughman, Barry Webster and David Boyer...... ______Price included with WS #61 ______82. Fly Fishing Safety and Fly Fishing Etiquette: Dutch Baughman, Barry Webster and David Boyer...... ______$25 $35 ______83. Video Casting Analysis with Your Tablet or Smartphone: Macauley Lord...... ______$50 $60 ______(Write in late addition workshops) ______

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