Stay tuned for the Fly Fishers Workshop in 2025

We are not ready to annouce anything yet, but stay tuned for a 2025 announcement. We are trying to get the fly fishers workshop up and running again next year. Our Seth Green President & event coordinator Dave Agness will be reaching out to presenters and sponsors for 2025. Thank you for your support and understanding!

6th Bi-Annual

Fly Fisher’s Workshop 2025

Coming Soon

Fly Fisher’s Workshop is a fun one-day fly fishing event that provides informative workshops/seminars to promote fly fishing and broaden skills. It’s the largest fly fishing event in Upstate New York! There are 50 minute workshop sessions on various topics for beginner to experienced. Multiple workshops are offered each session, so that participants choose based on their interests.

We cover everything from trout, bass, saltwater, fly tying, casting, rod building, leaders, tying knots, and more. We have 30 differ- ent workshops and fly tying demos. There are casting demonstrations, casting clinics, fly tying demos, fly fishing vendors, local guides, a casting competition and great raffle prizes for $1 and $2 tickets. Hungry? Visit the food trucks for coffee, snacks and lunch.

Tickets

Adults $10
Youth 16 & under FREE

Tickets can be purchased at the door.

Seth Green Chapter of Trout Unlimited.

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What Happens at the Workshop?

 

FREE fly tying & casting instruction

Numerous workshops on diverse fly fishing topics

Awesome fly fishing raffle prizes

Complete line of fly fishing materials and equipment for sale

Food trucks with fabulous food

Sponsored by local fly fishing guides, vendors, authors and artists

Swap, Sell or donate fly fishing gear
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Event Location

 Brighton’s Twelve Corners Middle School

2013 Monroe Ave., Rochester, NY 14618

 

Use Monroe Avenue Entrance and Parking Lot.

Overflow parking may use Brighton High School lot.
GPS cord. 43°7’28”N 77°33’44”W

List of Workshops

The Schedule is here… Download this PDF

 
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  • David Agness – Getting Started in Two Hand (Spey) Fly Fishing

  • Effective Streamer Fishing for Trout & Salmon

  • Lindsay Agness – Getting Started in Fly Fishing

  • Matt Belanger – Fly Tying and Drop In

  • Michael Chochul – Making Sense of Flies

  • Andrew Cooper – Striped Bass on the East Coast

  • Ken Crane – What are European Themed Nymphing and Techniques?

  • Cal Curtice & Carl Palmer – Tenkara Fly Fishing & Tying

  • Craig Dennison – Canoe & Kayak Fly Fishing

  • Guide Aaron DeRuyter – Multi Species– Modern Catch and Release Practices

  • Jim Dron – Midges to Spun Duns

  • Lisa Green – Getting Started in Fly Fishing • A Simple Approach to Flies

  • Sawyer Hall – Beginner’s Fly Tying – Make Your Own

  • Kirk Klingensmith – Fly Fishing for Large- mouth Bass, Fly Fishing for Smallmouth Bass

  • Gordon Mueller – Thank God for Sunfish

  • Frank Payne – Bamboo Fly Rod Making Demonstration

  • Guide Jay Peck – Upstate New York Trout Options

  • Fly Fishing the Tributaries

  • Rich Redman – Damn the Dams in the Adirondacks

  • Guide David Rockwell – The Perfect Environmental Storm; Great Lakes

  • The Seasons of Salmon River

  • Don Rowe – Tying Simple Flies that Work

  • Ben Sheard – Seasons on the Delaware (Session I, Q&A Session II)

  • Matt Sanderson – (DEC) Wild Brown Trout Population Recovery & Status in Spring Brook

  • Loren Williams – Traveling and World Fishing with Team USA

  • Guide Jessie Hollenbeck - Fishing Oatka Creek, Fly Fishing Rochester’s Tributaries

  • Ethan Law - Campfire Cooking

  • Landry Retzlaff - Hand’s On Knot Clinic and Practice

  • Brandon Frischmann - Pack the Yak (fly fishing from sit-top kayaks)

  • Guide Mike Crawford - Stillwater Fly Fishing in the Eastern Finger Lakes and Upstate NY

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Ready to Sell or Swap?

If you’re interested in selling or swapping good, please download the form below and return it to Craig - craigdflyfisher@gmail.com

 
 
 

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