programme 2017 – 2018

Oct 2nd	First meeting – social get together
Oct 9th	Beginners- Tying thread control- Black Thread Buzzer Improvers- General Introduction
Oct 16th	Beginners- Dubbing – Hares Ear Nymph Improvers - Bibio and Claret Bumble
Oct 23rd	Beginners- Forming a Herl body- Diawl Back Improvers- Walkers original ‘Mayfly Nymph’
Oct 30th	Guest Speaker: Dave Southall- Flys For All Seasons
Nov 6th	Beginners- Bead Heads Improvers- Polystickle (fry pattern)
Nov 13th	Beginners- Floss body & Head Hackle- Black Pennell Improvers- Blae & Black (wet pattern)
Nov 20th	Beginners- Tinsel body & Palmered hackle- Wingless Wickhams Improvers- cul de canard, Bubble Midge and Bubble Sedge
Nov 27th	Guest Speaker: Frank Moors- Salmon Fly Tying Techniques
Dec 4th	Guest Speaker: Paul Proctor
Dec 11th	Beginners- simple winging, cloaking, pinch and loop- Irish dabbler Improvers- Bob Church- Ginola Fly
Dec 18th	Beginners- Rolled wing- Connemara Black Improvers- The Humpy
Dec 25th	Christmas break – NO MEETING
Jan 1st	Christmas break – NO MEETING
Jan 8th	Beginners- Rolled wing- Connemara Black Improvers- The Humpy
Jan 15th	Beginners- Paired wing slips- Invicta Improvers- peeled Dry Fly Wings
Jan 22nd	Guest Speaker: Stuart Croft
Jan 29th	Beginners- Using CDC- cul de canard emerger Improvers- peeled Dry Fly Wings
Feb 5th	Beginners- parachute hackles- Klinkhammer Improvers- pink bug
Feb 12th	BFFI Speaker
Feb 19th	Beginners- proportions, soft mobile hackles & sparse dubbing- spiders Improvers- Muskrat Dry Fly
Feb 26th	Beginners- Lead underbodies, woven bodies- Woven Nymphs
Mar 5th	Beginners- Bead Heads- Goldhead Damsel Nymph
Mar 12th	Beginners- Spent Hackle point wings- Daddy Longlegs/Hopper
Mar 19th	Guest Speaker: Paul little - Dry Flies and Nymphs
Mar 26th	Beginners- Marabou, Bead chain & Foam eyes- Cats Whisker & Booby’s
Apr 2nd	Bank Holiday, NO MEETING
Apr 9th	A.G.M.

Dates and lesson Plan may be subject to change