TGF's Clearwater Junction Fly Tying Show, Roscoe NY 8-9 June

I am posting this as it may be of interest to some members of your community.

The 3rd Annual Clearwater Junction Fly Tying Show will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 8th and 9th, at The Rockland House, Roscoe, NY. Some of the best fly tyers in the Northeast and parts beyond will demonstrate their skills. Learn the fine art of fly dressing from recognized masters of the craft or just enjoy the beauty and grace of this historic pastime.

Tyers include Bob Mead, Dave Brandt, Ted Rogowski, Ed Gallop, Roy Christie (UK), Misako Ishimura (Japan), Leslie Wrixon and many more.

Please visit our website Clearwater Junction

Thank you for your time.

Mark

The 3rd Annual Clearwater Junction Fly Tying Show will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 8th and 9th, at The Rockland House, Roscoe, New York. Some of the best fly tyers in the Northeast and from over 10 States, Japan and Europe will demonstrate their skills. Learn the fine art of fly dressing from recognized masters of the craft or just enjoy the beauty and grace of this historic pastime.

We have tyers in all disciplines, some of our featured tyers are:

Dave Brandt: Catskill dries
Bob Mead: The best realistic tyer in the world (Paul Whillocks? opinion!)
Ted Rogowski: Trout and salmon, author of the Clean Water Act
Roy Christie: All the way from the UK, chalkstream specialist.
Misa Ishimura: Captain of the Japanese Fly Fishing Team, trout
Joe Fox: Great grandson of Walt and Winnie Dette, Catskill dries
Ed Gallop: trout
Mark J Romero: jazz flies, steelhead and tarpon!
Eric Austin: wets, steelhead & salmon
JB Martin: trout and salmon
Tom Berry: saltwater specialist
Matt Grobert: trout & salmon
Ray Gattus: saltwater & epoxy
Brad Buzzi: buzflies and crease flies

Roy Christie from the UK will be presenting his lecture ?Tying Emergers and How to Present Them? each afternoon.

We have classic tackle exhibitions, a working watercolorist and a traditional cane rod builder from Japan. There will be tying and casting instruction for kids.

The bar will be open each day for lunch and refreshment!

Please visit our website www.clearwaterjunction.com

Thank you for your time.

Mark

The great saltwater fly specialist, Stan Fudala, will be tying at the show. The line up is getting stronger and stronger!

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I have just spoken with Ralph Graves and he will be joining the line up!

I love watching Ralph tie, a consummate master of the art and a living part of the Catskills legend.

I see that some of the guys from the Roscoe Fish-In have signed up to tie. I look forward to tying with you..

On Friday and Saturday, 8th and 9th of June, TGF will hold the 3rd Clearwater Junction Fly Tying Show at the Rockland House in Roscoe, NY. The show runs from 9am to 4pm.

This year?s show will be the largest and most impressive yet with 65 superb tyers, a cane rod builder from Japan, working artists, 3 classic tackle vendors, events for children, excellent door prizes, afternoon lectures and even a scroll saw artist.

Fly tyers from over 10 States and as far as the U.K. have donated their time and their skill to aid TGF?s conservation efforts and to advance TGF?s mission. Bob Mead, Dave Brandt, Stan Fudala, Ralph Graves, the U.K.?s Roy Christie, Tim Wohland and Debbie Duran will be joined by over 50 highly skilled experts in all disciplines of fly dressing; from tiny Catskill dry flies, to colorful salmon, steelhead and saltwater flies, to bucktails and streamers, to expertly rendered nymphs, incredible realistics, North Country spiders, wets and everything in between. The assembled line up will provide an incredible exposition of the fly dressers art.

Roscoe?s award winning watercolorist Jack Yelle will paint a fly fishing scene during Saturdays show. Jack studied with Edgar Whitney, the Dean of American watercolorists and his paintings possess an evocative quality, perfectly capturing the spirit of fly fishing. Michael Simon specializes in sub-aqueous scenes of salmonids. His work has graced many national magazines and his illustrations were used in Gierach's "Trout Bum", Michael will be exhibiting his work at the show.

At 11am each day the children?s fly tying lessons will begin. Led by experienced instructors they will learn the rudimentary skills involved in fly tying, all equipment will be supplied and every child attending will be entered in a daily draw to win a fly tying kit. At 1pm the fly casting lessons begin for the kids, again all equipment is supplied.

Companies and individuals have responded to the shows request for door and draw prize donations. Prizes include tackle, gift certificates for stores, restaurants and hotels, signed books and much more.

Each afternoon at 1:30pm Roy Christie, accomplished UK tyer and conservationist, will give his talk "Tying Emergers and How to Present Them", this has been seen at shows all over Europe. Roy invokes memories of the Kennet, Test and Itchen when explaining the design history of his emergers and talks in detail of his 'sunken tippet' presentation method. This is a must see before heading off to Cairns Pool for the evening hatch.

Carmine Lisella of the Jordan Mills Rod Company, Larry McCarthy of Beaverkill Traders and Bob Selb of The Classic Fly Fisherman will be exhibiting and selling their collections of classic rods and reels. Rods by Payne, Leonard, Gillum and many more will be on display.

The show promises to be our biggest and best yet and more information is available at www.clearwaterjunction.com.

The reason for the show?

Conservation.

The show is not about fly-tying. It is not about fly-fishing.

It is about conservation. It is about raising environmental awareness and donations to carry out the hard work necessary to save our most precious resources; our rivers and streams. Proposed mega-developments, easing of environmental regulations, casinos, polluters and disease present an ever- growing threat to the health of our riparian habitat and cold water fisheries. The Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, Inc. has stood alone or in coalition to fight these battles and control these threats and has done so since 1963.

Please make the effort to support this show and help TGF continue to protect these resources.