Backwater Angler will continue offering fly tying classes on both Saturdays and Sundays on weekends through the Fall and Winter. Classes will vary from beginner to advanced and many will focus on tying techniques, hatches or special materials. This is the time of the year when days get shorter and an angler’s time can be best spent at the vise restocking the fly box. If you put off tying, or thought it was too difficult, costly, or time consuming sign up for a class and learn how to produce easy fish catching patterns on the cheap. For all the experienced fly tiers our classes are run by Gunpowder River Guides who have spent hundreds of day a year matching hatches and testing new patterns on the Gunpowder. Learn how guides dissect, imitate and design flies to match what the fish are eating.

We recently beefed up the tying room with a wide assortment of hooks, beads and totally new materials. Midge Cactus chenille, Velvet chenille, Scud and Ice dubbing are just a few additions to the back room in a variety of single color packs. Those tiers looking for natural materials will notice we have six different colors of snow shoe rabbit feet and twelve colors of rabbit strips, in addition to thirteen colors of deer, elk and comparadun hair. Arctic fox, CDC, peacock herl, ostrich herl and four colors of pheasant tail fibers are great materials for buggy fall nymphs. Blue Ultra wire? We have it for those anglers raving about blue copper johns and brassies. We currently have ten colors of Ultra Wire in three sizes, and sixteen colors of 6/0, 8/0 and 3/0 Uni thread.