A Fund Raising Event to Benefit our Soldiers, Veterans, and their Families

Mission: The Annual Festival of Fly Fishing is conducted in order to honor and help our deployed soldiers and their families who work so hard to keep us safe here in this great country. All flies donated will go towards programs that benefit our troops.
You can help in this cause through donations and your love of fly fishing and fly tying.

Free Food: Bring your appetite for coffee, donuts, and a lunch cookout of burgers, hotdogs chips, soda and more!
Donations will be accepted and appreciated.
Fly Casting Clinic: Get pointers from certified casting instructors. Requires $5 donation or $10 with instructor.
Fly Tie-a-Thon: Bring your tying tools and supplies and tie away. All flies will be donated to programs that benefit our troops. Win a prize for the most flies donated. A five dollar donation is requested to participate in this event.
Fly Tying Contest: Bring your talent, vise, tools and materials. See below for the contest fly recipes, rules, list of required materials, and sign up information. This is for amateur tyers only. Requires $10 donation.
Bucket Raffles: Buy tickets to win great prizes.

Sign up Here!
festivalflies@yahoo.com

Fly Contest Categories

# 1 Streamers
Bead Head Wooly Bugger
Marabou Black Ghost

#2 Wet Flies
Lead Winged Coachman
Gray Hackle

#3 Dry Flies
Elk Hair Caddis
Adams

#4 Terrestrials
Flying Ant
Foam Beetle

#5 Nymphs
Insult
Bird's Stonefly


For the judging of flies the jury will consider the following criteria .

Proportions of the fly

Fly tied most closely to standard pattern provided

Best representation of pattern

General impression

Bead Head Wolly Bugger
Hook: Streamer 4X long #6
Bead: Silver
Thread: Black
Tail: Brown marabou
Body: Brown chenille
Hackle: Grizzly saddle hackle

Marabou Black Ghost
Hook: Streamer 4X long #6
Thread: Black
Tail: Yellow hackle barbs
Body: Black floss
Rib: Flat silver mylar
Throat: Yellow hackle barbs
under wing: Sparse white buck tail
Wing: Whilte marabou

Lead Winged Coachman
Hook: Wet fly 2x long #10
Thread: Brown
Tag: Flat gold mylar tinsel
Body: Peacock herl
Hackle : Brown hen hackle
Wing: Matched slate gray mallard wiing quill sections.

Adams
Hook: Dry fly #12
Thread: Black
Tail: Mixed brown and grizzly hackle
Body: gray fur dubbing
Wings: Grizzly hackle tips
Hackle: Mixed brown and grizzly

Elk Hair Caddis
Hook: Dry fly #14
Thread: Brown
Body: Olive fur dubbing
Rib: Fine gold wire
Body Hackle: Brown neck hackle
Wing: Elk body hair

Flying Ant
Hook: Dry fly #14
Thread: Black
Abdomen: Black dubbing
Wing: Dark dun hackle tips delta wing style
Hackle: Coachman brown tied in center of hook
Thorax: Same as abdomen

Foam Beetle
Hook: Dry fly #14
Thread: Black
Shell back: Black foam
Body Peacock herl
Legs: 4 black goose biots
Indicator: Yellow foam

Gray Hackle
Hook: Wet fly 2X long #8
Thread: Black
Tail: Red hackle barbs
Body: Peacock herl
Hackle: Grizzly hen saddle

Birds Stonefly
Hook: 3x long streamer, #4-10
Thread: Orange
Weight: Lead-free wire, flattened at the thorax
Tail: Brown goose biots
Rib: Orange floss
Abdomen: Reddish brown dubbing
Wing case: Mottled turkey
Thorax: Peacock herl
Hackle: Furnace 1/2 stripped, tied in by the tip and palmered through the herl.

Insult
Hook: Nymph #8
Thread: Black
Tail: Small bunch of brown hackle fibers as long as the body, over which are two peacock herl butts half the length of the hackle.
Body: Five strands of peacock herl wrapped forward.