I'm looking for a person in or around the Tacoma, WA area who would like to be a mentor to a lowly old (well kinda old, I'll be 30 by the time you read this) who wants to learn how to tie flies correctly. I can't quite afford to pay for lessons, and I prefer more the one on one attention. I can tie a really shoddie fly, enough to catch fish with, but I'd love to learn how to tie a nice fly for salmon/steelhead, and also tie up jigs too. I can exchange lessons for float trips if needed. It's just something I really would like to learn. I've tried to sign up for TU classes, but everytime I've tried I either get "sign up now please" or "you really should be a TU member". Any help would be appreciated, I'd even be willing to pay as long as it's not to expensive. I just want the basics. I learn best with hands on rather then reading a book or watching a video. Kinda like fishing, you learn more by actually fishing then reading stories about fishing. Any help would be appreciated.........thanks


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I own the fly shop in Port Townsend and we give free flytying instruction to our coustomers and offer classes on everything from basic tying to spey flys, we are going to try to do a class on atlantic salmon flys this year. We have had Mike Croft, Skip Morris, Glenn Starr, and assorted others. The classes are inexpensive, just enough to pay the instructor and for materials.
Drop me a line if you are interested.

Joe do you carry spey rods?

Look into one of the local fly clubs in the area. Membership is usually inexpensive with plenty of members willing to lend a hand and some clubs will provide tying instruction for next to nil.

I do carry spey rods, Im not sure how Bob feels about people advertising on his page so e-mail me and I will fill you in on what we have.