Fly Tying

We need flies for our service programs! We challenge tiers to tie a dozen identical flies and gift them to our service programs. For more info, see our Tie-a-Dozen Challenge page.

Learn to Tie

We recommend those wanting to learn to tie flies enroll in a hands-on introductory fly tying course.

Nevada Department of Wildlife frequently holds free courses with all equipment, tools, and materials provided. While most of these are held in the Reno area or even further away, they are occasionally held in the Carson Valley. See their registration site for current schedule.
Carson Fly Fishing Club holds free classes in Carson City annually.

High Sierra Fly Casters has regular fly tying events such as our monthly Fly Tying at River Fork Ranch sessions. See our calendar for our current schedule of events.
Nevada Department of Wildlife offers a free Fly of the Month program in Verdi. See their registration site for details.
Carson Fly Fishing Club has great fly tying programs, including monthly Fly Tying At Empire Ranch (April - October) tie-ins.
Members of the High Sierra Fly Casters can take advantage of our mentoring program to improve their fly tying skills, to learn new patterns, and/or to help selecting patterns.

We thank The Nature Conservancy in Nevada for the use of their River Fork Ranch facilities for our tying sessions.

For more information about our fly tying programs, please contact Daniel Osborne, our fly tying activities coordinator, at tying@hsfc.us.