Fly Fishing on Steroids
Gary Wilkinson kindly sent these pictures of a recent trip to The Christmas Islands. WOW!!
Lakeland Fly dressers Competition winners
An excellent evening was had by all that attended with an excellent buffet and raffle. Thanks to all that attended.
The winner of t
he open competition was Terry Chippendale
with his Muddler Minnow pictured left
The winner of the Dry Fly Competition was Frank Bainbridge with his split wing Greenwell’s Glory pictured on the right
The winner of the Novice category was Simon Thompson
Below are some of the other flies entered
The winners of the fly fishing competitions were:
Ken Gillow for the Dry Fly competition and
Paul Little for the Jean French Trophy
Fly Fishing and Fly Tying League 2015 Final positions
A big congratulations to two of our members who have done extremely well in the FFFT tying leagues.
Terry Chippendale has stayed in the top 10 throughout the exceedingly high quality open competition and finished in 7th place, whilst Sam Doidge who lead the novice competition for the first two rounds finished in third place.
Fly Fishing and Fly Tying League 2015 Round 2
A big congratulations to two of our members who are doing well in the FFFT tying leagues.
Terry Chippendale has stayed in the top 10 in the exceedingly high quality open competition, Whilst Sam Doidge continues to lead the novice competition
First of the season
And is if doing well in the FFT leagues wasn’t enough for Terry, he has also had a great start to the season and sent in this Message:
Hello everyone , I caught this brown trout today on the river on a peeping caddis which we tied in one of Dan Atkinson’s classes this year.
A few more were released up to about 3/4 pound on this fly and snipe and purple on dropper. The fish below weighed 2 1/2 lb .
