Thames Valley Fly Dressers

A Branch of the Fly Dressers' Guild

Fly Tying Session Thursday 26th February 2026

We meet for Fly Tying this Thursday 26th February at the Baskerville Arms in Shiplake at 19:00 - 21:30, as usual.

Programme

The programme this week is:

Trout and Grayling Group

John will demonstrate a Nomad (a Lure) and a Skinny Damsel from this week’s flies. Dressings (PDF)

Sea Trout and Salmon Group

Peter will be tying Alistair Tubes and Alistair Coneheads – in preparation for fishing the north Scotland rivers next month.

Alistair Tube Dressing (PDF)
Alistair Conehead  Dressing (PDF)

Casting Tuition and Practice

At the AGM, we discussed a Casting Instruction and Practice session at Barn Elms Trout Fishery on a Thursday evening maybe at the end of May.

Peter will try to arrange it.

River Dee, Llangollen Grayling Fishing Weekend

At the AGM, there was a request to resurrect our Grayling fishing weekend in the River Dee at Llangollen in October 2026..

Peter will look into arranging it.

FDG Auction

Peter H has circulated the catalogue for the FDG Auction being organised by Chris Reeves in Rickmansworth on Sat 21st March.

More Details from flydressersguild.org