three massive rocks in the river. We both agreed that this looked a good holding area. Right enough fish after fish was taken In the course of the afternoon and as much time was spent watching the Elk coming down to the river to quench their thirst. The nymphs had certainly done the job and we could with all confidence do the workshops knowing that the patterns the students were going to dress would out fish other patterns.
On Tuesday morning we registered the work- shop at the Holiday Inn, this was to have been a class of only 10 but word had got out about these wire woven flies. We eventually ended up with a class of nearly 20 thank god I had brought over extra starter packs just in case.
The Workshop was an absolute success and by the end of the day all in the class was dressing up wire woven patterns; us as we exchanged jokes and experiences all in the class were in stitches with each other trying to outdo each other with our fishing tales, resulting a crowd amassing outside the door listening to our wild tales, I must admit the yanks were better at telling the tales.
Another of my colleagues who attended the Conclave was Liam Duffy of Kilyshandra, he car-
ried out single and double handed casting workshops on Hebden Lake, later in the eve- ning we did an evening’s talk on fly fishing in Ireland which was well received. As we left the hotel we bumped into or fellow fly dresser the ever youthful Charles Jardine and his son Alex who were giving lessons at the conclave.
The Wednesday was our day off from work- shops and demos so it was decided that we should head into the park with two of our friends Gene Kaczmarek and Mark Romero, first to be fished was the fire hole.
As Me Gene Mark and Mark fished leisurely the riffles and glides Ospreys and bald eagles were flying over head as though they were waiting intercept our fish this was an impressive sight. I had decided to keep to my wire woven pat- terns as they had already proved themselves, sure enough with each cast of the black and silver nymph I had a take that carried on for at least 90 minutes and I had accounted for over 25 fish.
Back home in Ireland we modified the pattern for sea trout and Salmon and this year saw an- glers getting record catches in the Dundalk area, which is good enough proof for me to confirm that they work.
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