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Annual Meeting to Feature Matt Ebbers

Thursday, January 3rd at 7:30pm

To kick-off 2019, we will be having a tying presentation by Matt Ebbers, a Loon Outdoors Ambassador, a Prostaff member of Fly Fish Food  and Firehole Outdoors. He currently has several fly patterns being tied and sold through Fulling Mill. Matt is also an accomplished photographer, and has quite a few great photos published over the years. Make sure to check out his work!

Here’s some background on Matt:

I distinctly remember being 12 and watching someone tie flies at some fishing convention my dad had brought me to. Not having a clue as to what I was doing I went home, tore apart a feather pillow, swiped a spool of thread from my mom and stuck a hook from my tackle box in a bench vice and was hooked for life.

After several months of this my father signed me up for my first fly tying class. The late Bob Mitchell of Bob Mitchell’s Fly Shop was my first fly tying instructor. He was a very patient man who would help me with my tying long after the classes would end. I tied flies for almost a year before I ever went fly fishing.

My first big trip was to the Big Horn River in Montana. Seeing those big fish take a fly that I tied is a memory I won’t ever forget. In my early 20’s I took an advanced fly tying class taught by Tracy Peterson. He really helped propel me to a new level in the fly tying game. He also was the first person that I had met who made money selling flies. There was no turning back now!

I live in Minnesota and fish the driftless area of MN and WI. I try and make it out west as often as possible. I have been heavily influenced over the years by western fly tiers and patterns. I try and bring some of that style back to the upper Midwest in the patterns that I tie. I have spent most of my life fishing for trout in rivers but have opened up to other warm water species in the past few years.

A couple of years ago my brother said I should look into Instagram. I could combine the skills I had in photography and fly tying. I posted a few pictures of some flies I had tied and the thing kind of took off. Now I have a pretty steady business selling my flies. Every day I am humbled by the amount of people who seem to like what I do. Also the number of very talented tiers and great companies out there is amazing. This is a great time to be fly fishing and fly tying!

~Matt

You can see more of Matt’s work at:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Matt-Ebbers-Photography-107724622614132/

https://loonoutdoors.com/blogs/ambassadors/matt-ebbers

http://www.pictame.com/user/ebbsforce1/45018266

Hope to see you then!

St. Paul Fly Tiers

Some of Matt’s Flies he may show:

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Annual Business Meeting January 3rd
01/03/19

Thursday, January 3rd at 7:30pm

The meeting on January 3rd will be our 2019 annual meeting for the Club. We will be electing board members & officers, and usually discuss ideas for next year’s outings. If you are interested in volunteering as board member for the Club, email us or talk to any of the officers anytime prior to the January 3rd meeting.

This is a great opportunity to give back to the Club, and the time commitment is small enough that anyone can do it.

To kick-off 2019, we will also be having a tying demonstration by Matt Ebbers, a featured fly tier for Loon Outdoors.

Hope to see you then!

St. Paul Fly Tiers

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Monthly Program and Business Meeting Today
12/06/18

Thursday, December 6th at 7:30pm

Tonight’s St. Paul Fly Tiers meeting will be the December 6th program night. We will be having a short business meeting followed with a presentation by Bob Anderson. We’re not sure what he has up his sleeve, but it will be interesting and entertaining for sure.

Also, as a reminder, the meeting on January 3rd will be the 2019 annual meeting for the Club. We will be electing board members and officers usually discuss ideas for next year’s outings.  If you are interested in volunteering as board member for the Club, email us or talk to any of the officers anytime before the January 4th meeting.

This is a great opportunity to give back to the Club and the time commitment is small enough that anyone can do it.

See you tonight!

Best,

St. Paul Fly Tiers

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Our March 1st program will be a presentation “Chasing Silver Salmon in Bristol Bay”

Bob Feiker and Greg Meyer will be showing a video and discussing a recent trip to the famed Alagnak River in Alaska.

Open to all.

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Andy Selvig presentation on deer hair packing and stacking

Monthly Program and Business Meeting Tomorrow
02/01/18

This Thursday, February 1st, we will have a brief business meeting followed with a presentation by Andy Selvig on stacking and packing deer hair.

This is really a great technique to learn because:

• You can tie much better deer hair creations than what is typically available in the local flyshop bin. (with the exception of Pat Cohen tied flies available at Lunds Fly Shop).
• You can learn to pack and trim deer hair so tight, it will float like cork and you’ll swear your fly was carved out of balsa, and colored with a marker pen.
• You can build a fly so durable that it not only can survive an epic day of bass fishing, but is durable enough to take on the entire season.
• You can learn, how to incorporate really cool different colors into striking patterns, up/down, spots, and banding through the stacking process.

We’ll be using a modified color scheme of a local favorite fly, the Wilderdilch as our model and improving it into something of a Wilderdilch 2.0. Although Tony insists it won’t REALLY be a true Wilderdilch….. this may raise some neck hackles, although they’ll be deer hair hackles! This presentation and demonstration will be conducted by Andy Selvig, a St. Paul fly Tiers member who sometimes gets out to fish.

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St. Paul Fly Tier’s
April 6th Program

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Free to all members and the general public

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Artist, author and guide

::  Bob White Presents

Thursday, April 6th at 7:30pm-9pm

Bob White

Stop by Gulden’s on April 6th to hear Bob White give a presentation to the club. Rumor has it he may be presenting on his recent Cuba fishing trip, but you never know—he has all kinds of great stories.

Presentation will be at 7:30 following a brief club business meeting.

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:: About St. Paul Fly Tiers Program Nights

The St. Paul Fly Tiers Program Nights at are held on the first Thursday meeting of the month. These are nights on which we leave our bobbins and thread at home and invite guest speakers to share their expertise and experiences on topics related to fly fishing and fly tying.

Scheduled Presenters for the Program Nights at the Clubhouse (1st Thursday of the month at 7:30pm)

More Info >

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