2017 Fly Tying Symposium

[hap]

It is not sometimes considered, it IS a willow ptarmigan...

We can shoot large numbers here, though they are easiest to get, and most mature on average when they are white. Like blue fox in the Aleutians which do not turn white (even though they were taken from way up north where they do/did turn white) the red grouse do not turn white in Europe. Here they turn white pretty early. I have skinned 60 in a day a number of times...

They are quite edible!

As an aside, we have 7 species of grouse in AK and incredibly lenient hunting seasons/limits. My skin tumbler holds at least 100 pounds of sawdust and borax.

The sooty grouse in SE AK is the only one that requires effort to hunt.

[redietz]

It is not sometimes considered, it IS a willow ptarmigan...

According to wikipedia, where they have separate articles, it's sometimes considered a subspecies and sometimes a separate species.

hey are quite edible!

Which is why "The Glorious Twelfth" (opening day of red grouse season in Scotland) is almost considered a holiday.

[Philly]

From what I'm hearing the 2018 show will be in Parsippany, NJ at the Sheraton Hotel there. Sort of going back to it's "roots" The first few years after it moved from Secaucus to Somerset it was held in the hotel adjacent to the Exhibition Center. I didn't go to the show in Lancaster more because of the parking situation than distance.

[redietz]

From what I'm hearing the 2018 show will be in Parsippany, NJ at the Sheraton Hotel there. Sort of going back to it's "roots" The first few years after it moved from Secaucus to Somerset it was held in the hotel adjacent to the Exhibition Center. I didn't go to the show in Lancaster more because of the parking situation than distance.

I have mixed feelings about this. Lancaster is certainly more convenient than North Jersey, but as you said, the parking stinks. I don't think I'll be going to Parsippany.