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            Saturday, March 2, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

            Open Tying Session at the CFFCM!

            The Catskill Fly Tyers Guild will host another in-person tying session at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum. This is the last of these tying sessions, and the guild will be transitioning to regular meetings on the 3rd Saturday of each month.

            The guild’s Dave Catizone and Tom Mason will host an open-tying session from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Bring your tying supplies if you’d like to tie, or just come by and watch Catskill tyers ply their craft. The tying will take place in either the Wulff Gallery, or in the main display room of the museum. The museum is located at 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York. Members  of the guild and nonmembers are invited to attend. Guild Hats and Logo patches are available at the meeting for purchase.

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          •                                              Saturday, February 24, 2024, (Times will be announced)

          •                                                                                            Fly Fest!

          • Location: The Rockland House, 159 Rockland Road, Roscoe, New York

          1. The Catskill Fly Tyers Guild and the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum are teaming up to continue the tradition of Fly Fest. Bring your vise and materials to the Rockland House and tie, or wander from table to table and enjoy the tying and rekindle friendships. Food and drinks will be available from the Rockland House for purchase. Fly Fest is always a special day, and one more traditional event the brings us all one step closer to the start of a new season of Catskill fishing. 
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        • Saturday, February 17, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
           

          Open Tying Session at the CFFCM!

          The Catskill Fly Tyers Guild will host another in-person tying session at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum.

          The guild’s Dave Catizone and Tom Mason will host an open-tying session from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Bring your tying supplies if you’d like to tie, or just come by and watch Catskill tyers ply their craft. The tying will take place in either the Wulff Gallery, or in the main display room of the museum. The museum is located at 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York. Members  of the guild and nonmembers are invited to attend. Guild Hats and Logo patches are available at the meeting for purchase.

          • Thursday, February 15, 2024, starting at 7:00 p.m.

            Winter Fly Tying on Zoom

            The Opening Fly:(To be decided)
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          • Discussion and open tying will follow the open-fly demonstration. Guild members will recieve Zoom links and a photo of the pattern and its recipe in their email as the date approaches.

            • Thursday, February 8, 2024, starting at 7:00 p.m.

              Winter Fly Tying on Zoom

              The Opening Fly:(To be decided)
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            • Discussion and open tying will follow the open-fly demonstration. Guild members will recieve Zoom links and a photo of the pattern and its recipe in their email as the date approaches.
         
            • Saturday, February 3, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
               

              Open Tying Session at the CFFCM!

              The Catskill Fly Tyers Guild will host another in-person tying session at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum.

              The guild’s Dave Catizone and Tom Mason will host an open-tying session from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Bring your tying supplies if you’d like to tie, or just come by and watch Catskill tyers ply their craft. The tying will take place in either the Wulff Gallery, or in the main display room of the museum. The museum is located at 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York. Members  of the guild and nonmembers are invited to attend. Guild Hats and Logo patches are available at the meeting for purchase.

             
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          • Thursday, February 1, 2024, starting at 7:00 p.m.

            Winter Fly Tying on Zoom

            The Opening Fly: The Henryville Special
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          • Discussion and open tying will follow the open-fly demonstration. Guild members will recieve Zoom links and a photo of the pattern and its recipe in their email as the date approaches.
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        Winter Fly Tying on Zoom

        The Opening Fly Will Be a Blue Quill (parachute style)
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    • Saturday, January 20, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
       

      Open Tying Session at the CFFCM!

      The Catskill Fly Tyers Guild will host another in-person tying session at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum.

      The guild’s Dave Catizone and Tom Mason will host an open-tying session from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Bring your tying supplies if you’d like to tie, or just come by and watch Catskill tyers ply their craft. The tying will take place in either the Wulff Gallery, or in the main display room of the museum. The museum is located at 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York. Members  of the guild and nonmembers are invited to attend.

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    • Thursday, January 18, 2024, starting at 7:00 p.m.

      Winter Fly Tying on Zoom

      The Opening Fly Will Be a Red Quill (Male Hendrickson)
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    • Open tying will follow the demonstration. Guild members received Zoom links and a PDF of the pattern and tying instructions in their email.
 
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  • Winter Fly Tying on Zoom

    Mark Sturtevant will demonstrate his CDX Caddis
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Saturday, January 6, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
 

Announcing our Open Tying Sessions at the CFFCM!

The Catskill Fly Tyers Guild will host in-person tying sessions at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum.

The guild’s Dave Catizone and Tom Mason will host  open-tying sessions from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Bring your tying supplies if you’d like to tie, or just come by and watch Catskill tyers ply their craft. The tying will take place in either the Wulff Gallery, or in the main display room of the museum. The museum is located at 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York.
If you’re in the area, or feel like taking a winter drive to the Catskills, be sure to stop by and be part of the fun. These sessions are free and open to all (members and nonmembers). These open tying sessions will also be held on January 20, February 3, February 17, and March 2.

Thursday, Januyary 4, 2024, starting at 7:00 p.m.

Winter Fly Tying Meeting to start the new year

Guild members will receive a Zoom link via email to access this virtual meeting

As it was last week, this will be an open tying night for all members who attend. Tie flies of your choice, and share ideas.

Thursday, December 28, starting at 7:00 p.m.

Winter Fly Tying and Meeting

Guild members will receive a Zoom link via email to access this virtual meeting

This will be an open tying night for all members who attend. Tie flies of your choice, and share ideas.

 

  

Thursday, November 30, starting at 7:00 p.m.

Winter Fly Tying and Meeting

Guild members will receive a Zoom link via email to access the meeting.

We will be having a brief bit of guild business to ask for approval of placing an order for a new batch of guild hats, and ask if someone would be willing to become the Treasurer of the guild. We’ll be tying a Catskill dry fly called the 50 Degrees. As always, you can tie whatever you’d like during these informal tying sessions. All members are invited to attend the meeting, whether you are tying or not.

See you there!

 

  

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Regular Meeting of the Guild, Followed by the Guild Lunch

Fly-tying Meeting starts at 10:00 am…Lunch is from 12:00 to 3:00

We’ll be having our regularly scheduled, in-person tying meeting in the Wulff Gallery of the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum, 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York. Bring your vise and materials if you’d like to tie. The presentation and discussion theme will center around the significance of color change in tying materials when they become wet. After the tying, we’ll have a lunch of sandwiches, side salads, soft drinks, and dessert. The lunch is free to all guild members and their families. The lunch will replace the picnic that had to be cancelled due to weather conditions. Lunch will be indoors, in the Wulff Gallery, so there will be no weather worries, just a good time. So come to the meeting, or come to lunch, or come to both. Let’s be there!

 

Also on Saturday, October 21, 2023

The Saturday Tyers Series will be featuring John “Catskill John” Bonasera

The Saturday Tyers Series continues in the main portion of the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum.The very successful Saturday Tyers Series at the CFFCM features tyers provided by the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild. Stop by any time from 12:00 to 4:00 to see some great fly tying in the lap of fly-fishing history at the museum. If you’re a guild member coming up that day for our meeting and lunch, make sure that you spend some time to check out John’s amazing tying.

 Lee Rutkowski will be the featured tyer at the Saturday Tyers Series the following weekend, on October 28.  

Stop by the guild’s table at Summerfest!   

The CFFC&M is having their Summerfest on Saturday and Sunday, August 5 and 6.  

The museum is located at 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York.

Activities, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, include vendors, kids activities, and the Hardy Cup bamboo casting competition.

The Catskill Fly Tyers Guild will at our table under the pavilion to answer questions, demonstrate tying flies, sell hats and patches while they last, and to sign up new members.

Come to Summerfest and check us out!

 

Reminder to all: there will not be a regular meeting of the guild in August, due to Summerfest, and there will not be a regular meeting in September, due to the members’ picnic scheduled for September 30. 

           

 

 

 

                                Look below for planned events with the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild:

                   July 15, 2023: In-Person Meeting of the Guild! 

 

                                                                            Catskill Fly Tyers Guild Meeting

                                                                           10:00 am, Saturday, July 15, 2023

                                                                           At the CFFC&M in the Wulff Gallery

                                                                1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York

        The guild will be meeting in an open-tying session (bring your vise, toots, materials, and your curiosity) that will have a focus on terrestrial patterns. As always, you can show up and tie anything that you want, but terrestrials are the theme if you’d like to follow it, and we all know that ants, beetles, crickets, etc. are very effective flies to use in the summer. There will be coffee, snacks, and great conversation as there is at every meeting of the guild. If you can’t make it in person, but would like to attend virtually, Zoom links will be emailed to all members of the guild a few days before the start of the meeting. 

        We hope to see you there!

 

 

                   June 17, 2023: In-Person Meeting of the Guild!

 

                                                                                   Catskill Fly Tyers Guild Meeting

                                                                           10:00 am, Saturday, June 17, 2023

                                                                           At the CFFC&M in the Wulff Gallery

                                                                1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York

        Come join us in the Wulff Gallery of the fly fishing museum as we all do what the guild does best—tie flies! We’ll be kicking off the start of the summer tying that has been put together by guild vice president, John Apgar. This is a list of suggested flies to tie over the summer, and all of the flies on the list have deep roots in the Catskills. You can see the complete summer tying list by clicking on the summer tying list right here:

                                                                                                   Summer Tying List

        Just bring your vise and the materials for the flies that you want to tie (there will be plenty of people who will share, if you need anything), and join in a late-morning session of tying that doesn’t interfere with the early morning or evening part of the fishing day. Coffee and snacks will be there for everyone, and there is sure to be good fishing and tying conversation as always.

        The meeting will also be available on Zoom for those who can’t be here in person. Links were sent to all members, and will be sent again in the email reminder a day before the meeting. 

                                                                                                     So let’s get tying!!!

 

 

                    May 27, 2023: In-Person Meeting of the Guild!

 

                                                                                   Catskill Fly Tyers Guild Meeting

                                                                           10:00 am, Saturday, May 27, 2023

                                                                       At the CFFC&M main museum building

                                                                1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York

 

        For the next in-person meeting of the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild, we are very excited to feature guild member and excellent Catskill-fly tyer—Seth Cavarretta.

        Seth will be demonstrating three flies: an Art Flick March Brown, a  Larry Solomon MB emerger/floating nymph, and a spinner for the March Brown. The timing of Seth’s presentation is excellent, as those are all very useful flies that should be appearing on our waters through late May.

        The meeting will also be sent out via zoom for members who can not be there in person. Members will find a Zoom link and the materials lists for the patterns being tied in their email during the upcoming week.

April 15, 2023: In-Person Meeting of the Guild! 

The guild will be meeting in person at 10:00 am in the Wulff Gallery on the grounds of the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum. The museum’s address is 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York. This is our first in-person meeting of 2023. Stop by with your vise and tying tools, have a cup of coffee and snacks, and tie along. The tying focus of the meeting and presentation will be Hendrickson wet patterns, but as always—tie whatever you want to tie. The meeting will be until Noon, giving everyone the warmer and more productive part of the day to fish the local waters. We’re looking forward to seeing our members face to face and to share tying ideas for the upcoming season. We’ll have the meeting on Zoom for those who choose to attend virtually. For photos of Hendrickson wets, recipes, and the Zoom link, please click here: (Corrected date) Patterns for April 15 Meeting

Note: We emailed a notice to our members that had the correct date of April 15 in the notice, but incorrectly had Oct 15 in the patterns for April 15. That’s why it says (corrected date) on the link. 

April 6, 2023: Come join the guild for Winter Fly Tying, this Thursday night at 7:00 pm. We’ll be starting with one of the most iconic Catskill-style flies of all time: the Hendrickson! 

For a bit of info on the Hendrickson, recipe, and photos, click here: Winter Tying April 6 Hendricksons

To Join the Zoom Meeting:

 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85433953576?pwd=TTQwVnI1akdkc2thZzhXbXRWV3RnZz09

Our winter fly tying continues this Thursday, March 30, at 7:00 pm. Zoom links are mailed directly to members before the event. We want to thank our members for the very enjoyable evening last week when we tied Olives. The fly to get things started for our upcoming session will be a real fish-getter: the Atherton Number Five. For more information, the recipe, and a photo of this very effective fly, please click here:

Winter Tying March 30, Atherton Number Five

Winter Tying continues this Thursday night, March 23, at 7:00 pm. Interest was expressed at the last session to tie Olives—a broad category of flies—so we are asking you to tie, and perhaps share, your favorite pattern(s) for Olives. This will likely be a very interesting evening of tying and discussing flies. For some information, history, patterns, and photos regarding Olives, we have a link to several pages of information that we sent out before an in-person meeting on the same topic in September 2021. You can access that by clicking here: March 23 Olives

 

March 16, 2023: The guild’s Winter Fly Tying nights continue this Thursday at 7:00 pm. Please join us as we start the evening with a fly that has been around for more than 100 years and was popularized by George LaBranch: The Pink Lady. We’ll be tying the dry-fly version of the pattern. For more info regarding the fly, please click here: March 16 Pink Lady

March 9, 2023: Come join the guild for Winter Tying at 7:00 pm. We’ll be tying the Bradley Special to get things started. For information about the fly, including photos and the recipe, click here: Winter Tying for March 9

We’re looking forward to seeing you this Thursday night!

February 16, 2023, starting at 7:00 pm

Winter Fly Tying:

The fly to get things kicked off this week will be Walt’s Riffle Dun, a style of fly originated by legendary Catskill fly tyer Walt Dette. This is style of fly, rather than a specific hatch-matching pattern. Click here for the materials list and more photos of Riffle Duns: Winter fly tying Feb 16

February 9, 2023:

Winter Fly Tying Continues!

We’ll be continuing our winter fly-tying nights with a virtual session at 7:00 pm on February 9. Look for Zoom links in your email a few days before the start of the meeting. The fly to get us started was suggested by Tom Mason, and it will be Walt Dette’s Riffle Dun. This one shouldn’t be missed!

These informal tying sessions have been quite a hit, and we had more than twenty members participating in  the February 2 meeting. Here’s an interesting variation of a Comparadun from that meeting, tied by John Apgar. It uses a thread body suggested by Tom Mason and a mixed wing of deer hair and CDC as suggested by Rich Turner. Quite the tasty-looking fly!

A Catskill-style March Brown from our January 19 tying night.

Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Winter Fly-Tying Night

Our informal winter fly tying keeps rolling along! We’ve been having these sessions with a planned fly to start things off, and then everyone either ties more of the same, does variations of the pattern, or ties whatever they need for the upcoming season. We started with Catskill-style March Brown dry flies on January 19, and for February 2nd, we’re planning to start with Hendrickson Comparaduns. Links will be arriving to guild members by email as the date approaches. If you know someone who is not a guild member, but who has interest, feel free to share your link. So far, the tying has been relaxed and productive, and the conversations have been great, so come on and join us!  

Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Winter Fly-tying Night

The informal winter tying continues. We had a glitch in last week’s Zoom link, so the topic of soft-hackles will be repeated with the March Brown Soft-Hackle being the first fly to tackle. Zoom links and suggested materials were sent to all guild members on January 8. Check your email for the announcement and the link, then come join us for the meeting this Thursday night. 

See you there!

Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Winter Fly-tying Night:

The guild will be having the second meeting in a series of informal virtual fly-tying nights. John Apgar is organizing the tying meetings, and he presented a Soft-hackle Hendrickson for the group during the last session on December 22. We had a very pleasant and relaxed night of tying, and even had an impromptu showing of a short film of Edward Hewitt fishing that was provided by Pete Leitner. The tyers from that night agreed to meet again on Thursday, January 5, 2023, at 7:00 pm. The theme will be soft-hackle flies, and anyone can bring a pattern for the group to tie. These sessions are planned to be ongoing throughout the winter. Zoom links will be arriving by email to all guild members a few days before the scheduled date. 

Come join us!

November 12 and 13, 2022:

 

The Catskill Fly Tyers Guild will attend the International Fly Tying Symposium, which is taking place at the Double Tree by Hilton, 11200 Atrium Drive, Somerset, NJ.

We are looking for guild members to volunteer and tie flies at the guild’s booth, and to represent the guild when attendees stop by and observe. All guild members who are assigned a time slot at the booth will receive free admission to the symposium. Tying slots and the accompanying free admission is available to guild members, only.

Here is the schedule for time slots at our booth:

Saturday, November 12:

9:30 am to noon

noon to 2:30 pm

2:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Sunday, November 13:

9:30 am to noon

noon to 2:30 pm

2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Let us know for which day and time slot that you’d like to volunteer.  Giving us a first and second choice will help with the assignments. Assignments will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. 

Respond to catskillflytyersguild@gmail.com

Please make the subject of your email: Tying Show, and please provide a contact phone number so we can confirm the schedule with you. 

If you’d like general information about the International Fly Tying Symposium, you can visit their webpage here:

https://internationalflytyingsymposium.com/

Because we are attending this tying event, there is no general membership meeting of the guild scheduled for this November. 

Hope to see you at the symposium

October 15, 2022, at 1:00 pm

Monthly Meeting of the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild

The next meeting of the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild will be Saturday, October 15, at 1:00 pm in the Wulff Gallery of the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum, 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor, New York.    This meeting will focus on our members getting together to share our most productive fly patterns of 2022. Please come with the flies that worked well for you, and we’ll have a bit of show and tell to learn from each other. As always, bring your tying equipment for some open tying, and learning how to tie each others’ flies.    You can find photos and the pattern for one of my most successful flies in the Emerger for the upcoming meeting. To see this fly, just click on the link that’s right here:   The Emerger for October 2022   I’m looking forward to seeing you on October 15.   —Joe Ceballos  

September 17, 2022, at 1:00 pm

Monthly Meeting of the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild

  Come and join the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild on Saturday, September 17, at 1:00 pm for our monthly meeting. As usual, we will be meeting at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum in Livingston Manor, NY, but instead of being indoors in the Wulff Gallery, we will have a fresh-air meeting under the museum’s pavilion. The pavilion is easy to find: just turn right after you cross the bridge for the museum and drive to the end of the grassy field. The event is rain or shine, as the pavilion provides plenty of cover.    The topic of the meeting is spinners. Click on the following link for some details regarding spinners:

The Emerger for the guild’s Sept 17 meeting   I’m looking forward to seeing you at our September 17 meeting.   —Joe Ceballos     President  

 

Monthly Meeting of the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild

Date: June 18, 2022

The next meeting of the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild will be on Saturday, June 18, starting at 1:00 pm in the Wulff Gallery of the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum in Livingston Manor, New York. Bring your tying equipment if you’d like to tie along with the presentations and for open-tying time. The focus of the meeting will be Sulphurs and Terrestrials. Details of the meeting are in the Emerger for June 2022. Please click on the following link to go to the Emerger for details of the meeting:

The Emerger for June 2022

Let’s have a big turnout to learn about flies that will be very useful right now and as the summer continues.

Joe Ceballos, President

Guild Fly Tying Rendezvous
Date: May 21, 2022

The Fly Tying Rendezvous sponsored by the Guild will be held at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum in Livingston Manor, New York, on May 21, 2022, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Because space at the Rendezvous is limited, I’m asking all members who want to attend and tie to let us know by sending an email to catskillflytyersguild@gmail.com so a spot will be reserved for you. The theme for this year’s Rendezvous will be “Modern Catskill Flies.” This does not preclude attending members from tying traditional and classic patterns. One of our goals is to preserve tying history, but we also recognize that fly tying is always evolving with the advent of new materials. Consider how remarkable it will be to have Catskill flies being tied that represent their earliest origin to the present day. I’m requesting the members attending to state what you will be tying, so it can be duly noted in the program that will be prepared for the event.

I’m look forward to seeing everyone at the Rendezvous.

Joe Ceballos,
Preside