Weekly Meeting Schedule

The Last Resort as tied by Wayne!

The Last Resort was likely first written about in an article about Tim Bedford in a 1985 issue of American Fly Fisher.  It seems like it was then forgotten about.  I got interested in classic English wet flies by watching Davy Wotton videos.  The Last Resort is a traditional English soft hackle design, but I doubt if it is a classic English pattern.  It is tied on a standard dry hook, probably because that is the hook that the originator had on hand.  Weight is then added to it.

Materials:

Hook:            Size 10-14 Standard Dry Fly

Weight:         0.15 Lead, 6-7 wraps

Rib:               Blue Tinsel

Body:            Peacock Hurl

Hackle:         Hungarian Partridge

7pm to 9pm

College of Dupage

Room TEC-1038 B

Mike will be leading us in a tie of the classic Copper John.  Created by John Barr in the 1990s to target Colorado trout, the slim profile and heavier weighting allows the Copper John to get down nicely in faster currents.

Materials:

Bead: 3.3mm Black Nickel

Hook: size 10 2x long, down eye

Lead: 0.020 lead free wire

Thread: 6/0 black

Tail: Goose biots, black

Body: Smooth thread base, tapered

Rib: BR Copper Ultra Wire

Tinsel: Lateral Scale

Wing Case: Thin Skin mottled bustard olive

Thorax: Peacock herl

Legs: Hungarian Partridge, olive

Case cover: UV Epoxy

7pm to 9pm

College of Dupage

Room TEC-1038 B

Join us at the Sturdy Shelter Brewing for our end of year pizza party, fly exchange and general merriment! !

We will have a fly exchange so bring 6 flies to swap with other fly tyers!

There will be door prizes!

Sturdy Shelter Brewing

10 Shumway Ave.

Batavia, IL 60510

Join us at the Bubblehouse Brewing Company for some casual fly tying and general merriment!

Bring your tying tools and fill the gaps in your box or start on your next Tie-a-Thon 100 flies!

There will be pizza.

Bubblehouse Brewing Co.

2121 Ogden Ave Unit A 

Lisle, IL 60532