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Publication of United Fly Tyers Volume 55, Issue 3 March 2014

Meeting: March 6, 2014 Lance Hidy

Jim Leisenring and Pete Hidy – Masters of Wet Fly and Flymph

Fly Tying Starts at 6:30 pm Presentation at 8:00

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American Legion, Post 221, 357 Great Road, BEDFORD, MA

ROUNDTABLE NEWSLETTER Next meeting is March 6th at 3 Apr – Joe Calcavecchia – Saltwater Flies 1 May – tbd the American Legion Post 221,

357 Great Road, Bedford, MA. MARCH’S SPEAKER ‐ ‐ LANCE HIDY Lance Hidy is working on an expanded edition of The FROM THE PRESIDENT Art of Tying the Wet Fly & the Flymph that was By the time this newsletter gets out the show season originally written by James Leisenring and Lance’s will be behind us. Thanks to Peter Vandermeulen, father Pete Hidy. Lance is a photographer, illustrator, Frank Flowers, Scott Greb, Armand Courchaine and and professor at Northern Essex Community College in Kurt Swenson for helping with the Worcester show. Haverhill, Mass. He has designed three U.S. postage

Thanks to Frank Flowers, Richard O’Donnell, Armand stamps, and was a book designer for Ansel . He Courchaine, and Kurt Swenson for manning the booth continues to design the authorized Ansel Adams books at the Pelham Fly Fish New Hampshire. for Little, Brown & Co.

Lance Hidy was snowed out in January but we were THIS MONTH’S PATTERNS able to reschedule him for this month. See the details ATTENTION FIRST TIME TYERS AND BEGINNERS about Lance in this newsletter. UFT has vises and tools available for use during the club meetings. If you don’t have your own tools or In April UFT will have the drawing for the Wasatch fly have forgotten something ask and we can probably tying tool kit. The kit is a $160 value. Don’t miss out on get you tying flies for the evening. Hooks and this drawing buy your tickets at the March meeting. materials are usually provided by the instructors. First time fly tyers and beginners are welcome at UFT.

NEW MEETING LOCATION American Legion Post 227 357 The Great Road Bedford, MA

Directions: From 128/95

Take exit 31B to merge onto MA225W/ MA 4 N/ Bedford St toward Bedford.

Continue to follow MA 225 W/ MA 4 N

Destination will be on the left UFT members admire the skills of Capt. Skip Parking and entrance are at the rear of the Montello at the February meeting. building GREG SALTZMAN

This month we will tie a Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear UPCOMING EVENTS variant, well actually very variant. This pattern 1, 2 Mar ‐ Pelham Fly Fish New Hampshire combines what I think are the best aspects of 6 Mar – Lance Hidy many patterns, which means that we will learn ROUNDTABLE NEWSLETTER many techniques when we tie this fly. This fly QUILL GORDON NYMPH provides a lot action in the water, drops quick and Hook: Daiichi model 1560 size 12 is very durable. I tie this pattern in all its full Thread: Black splendor as the recipe below outlines and also tie Tail: Fibers from wood duck it again in a simpler fashion. When fishing I will Body: Strip peacock herl use the simpler pattern if there is higher chance of Wing: Wood duck flank feather tied flat losing it due to a rocky bottom or too many Hackle: Natural blue dun branches overhead. HENDRICKSON NYMPH Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear, variant Hook: Daiichi model 1560 size 12 Hook: Daiichi 1560 size 12 Thread: Olive if you have size 12/0 or UTC G.S.P. 75 Thread: Black denier Bead: Gold tungsten Tail: Wood duck fibers Lead free wire Body: Wapsi “Super fine” Hendrickson pink dubbing Tail: Pheasant tail fibers Wingcase: Pheasant tail fibers tied flat Body: Hare’s mask dubbing Hackle: Partridge few turns Shell Back: Pheasant tail, pearl uni‐thread and UV epoxy When things are cold and breeze or early morning I Hot spot: pink or red thread will use a streamer. Rib: gold wire Thorax: Hare’s mask SUPERVISOR (streamer) Hackle: Hungarian partridge Hook: Model 1720 size 8 Thread: Black ARMAND COURCHAINE Tail: Short piece of red wool Body: Flat silver tinsel Early April you will find me fishing small brooks of Rib: extra fine or small oval silver tinsel southern and central Massachusetts. Some brooks Throat: Small bunch of white bucktail sparse contain wild native brook others will hold Wing: Small bunch of white bucktail, four light blue stocked trout. On some days it will be warm and the hackles on top sight of feeding trout is enough stir one’s soul. Some Topping: Six strands of peacock herl on top of hackle days it will be cloudy, raining or snowing. Still it’s nice Shoulder: Pale green wide hackles 2/3 as long as the to be fishing again. wing

Optional: Jungle cock eye

If you have a chance to fish Cape Cod ponds, my favorite pattern is the Cape Cod Wooly.

CAPE COD WOOLY Hook: Daiichi model 1720 size 6 Thread: Black Tail: Black Marabou as long as the shank Body: Peacock herl or black wool Ribbing: Extra small or small oval gold or silver tinsel

Another brown gets fooled by Armand’s flies. Hackle: Black palmer then trim close to the body all around should be 1/8 or 1/16”

For our March tying class we will be tying a variety of I have never tried using lead substitute to get the fly flies. Our first two patterns will be nymphs. down, I do use a fast sink tip or full sink line though. Be sure to work the fly slowly. ROUNDTABLE NEWSLETTER DAVID KOLESAR (for Beginners) EXECUTIVE OFFICERS The Tequeely is a variation of the but President David Kolesar 603‐672‐2006 [email protected] with rubber legs instead of hackle. Like a Woolly Vice President Membership Services OPEN Bugger it is a very simple pattern to tie. While the VP Publications David Kolesar 603‐672‐2006 original pattern calls for a copper chenille body try this [email protected] pattern in all black or black with the yellow legs. For a Vice President Conservation little flash add a bead head to the fly. Mark Burns [email protected]

Webmaster OPEN TEQUEELY Hook: Daiichi 2340, 6XL or equivalent, #6 Treasurer Dick Henry [email protected] Thread: Black 6/0 Tail: Yellow over black over yellow marabou BOARD OF DIRESCTORS Body: Large copper Crystal Chenille twisted together Mark Burns [email protected] with medium Pearl Cactus chenille Armand Courchaine [email protected] Legs: Medium yellow rubber legs, 3 sets of 2 Frank Grotto (Historian) 978‐468‐3420 Dick Henry [email protected] Phil Horowitz [email protected] David Kolesar 603‐672‐2006 [email protected] Harris Krinsky [email protected]

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ROUNDTABLE NEWSLETTER Bug Man will be at the 7th annual Fly Tying Demonstration. Admission is free. This event is held at the Wayside Inn, Sudbury, MA on Sunday, March 23rd from 10am to pm. The Bug Man

Bob McMenemy Trout Stream Entomology Enthusiast

Bob started fly fishing in Arizona fairly late in life after all the kids were grown up. Shortly thereafter he moved back to Massachusetts where he had grown up. (Actually, Bob worked at the Wayside Inn as a part timer from 1958 to 1970.) Shortly after returning he retired from teaching high school science and math. Fishing was fun and he hung out with New England Fly Tyers and . He missed the science teaching, though, and started to get interested in the aquatic insects on which trout feed. About seven years ago he started putting together aquatic entomology exhibits for TU, NEFT, Mass Audubon, and even the annual fly tying exhibits at the Inn. This was a chance to “teach biology” again and reach out to others as a life-long nature boy. Both children and adults are amazed at the variety of life found below the water’s surface and the intricacies of their life cycles and interactions with one another. Aquatic entomology is just one of the myriad side interests you can develop as a fly . Keep learning and you never grow old, at least that’s what Bob is hoping!

Have net, will travel. Jim Leisenring & Pete Hidy—Masters of Wet Fly and Flymph A slide show by Lance Hidy During the Great Depression, 25-year-old Pete Hidy, an aspiring journalist from Ohio, conceived a book that would become a classic of American : The Art of Tying the Wet Fly by James E. Leisenring (1941). Jim, a blue-collar tool-maker for Bethlehem Steel, was a talented fly-tier, legendary for his ability to catch trout when the dry-fly anglers could not. With only an 8th-grade education, Leisenring schooled himself on the British wet-fly masters including Stewart and Skues. Thirty-six years Jim’s junior, Pete persuaded him to write pencil notes about his fly tying techniques, which Pete rewrote and shepherded to publication—marking a Pete Hidy new era for subsurface fly fishing in America. coined After Jim’s death in 1951, Pete continued the word contributing to the sport, earning a name flymph in for himself not only as fisherman and fly tier, 1962. but as author, editor, founder of the Flyfish- er’s Club of Oregon, and coiner of the word flymph. Lance Hidy tells the story of his father and Jim Leisenring, and their mutual friend Dick Clark, inventor of the spinning block. The lecture is ilustrated with Lance’s photographs The speaker, Lance Hidy, Pete Hidy’s son, of flies and other memorabilia. is working on an expanded edition of The THE CLARK SPINNING BLOCK Art of Tying the Wet Fly & Fishing the Flymph. Lance is a photographer, illustrator, and professor at Northern Essex Commu- nity College in Haverhill, Mass. He has designed three U.S. postage stamps, and was a book designer for Ansel Adams. He continues to design the authorized Ansel Adams books for Little, Brown & Co. Contact: [email protected] ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT © 2013 BY LANCE HIDY