Monday Night Tying Workshops - Fall 2026/Winter 2027
Oct 28, 2026
Fish Tales Fly Shop is back on select Mondays for one-night tying workshops featuring popular patterns and techniques presented by guest fly tiers and familiar Fish Tales faces. Get a head start on filling your fly boxes for 2027 with this unique opportunity to learn from some of Calgary's best fly tiers. The $15 registration fee includes instruction and the materials for the evening - bring your vise, tools, thread and epoxy and tie along!
Sessions are hosted at Fish Tales Fly Shop and run from 7pm to 9/9:30pm on the scheduled dates. Registration is required - Register Here. Read to the end for what's coming up next on the session schedule - updates on the way!
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- November 9, 2026 - Stillwater Staples with Hai
Join Hai for this night focused on tying techniques for scuds, leeches, and blobs. These are stillwater staples food sources for stillwater trout and can be used effectively year round.
- November 23, 2026 - Two Permit Flies with Joel
This session will focus on one modern and one classic pattern for targeting permit: the Mutineer and Mantis. The mutineer is one of the most popular patterns in the Indo-Pacific
- December 7, 2026 - Medusas with Gideon
Join Gideon and learn to tie this versatile and proven pattern.
- January 11, 2027 - Steelhead/Bull Trout patterns with Sasha
Join Sasha for an evening covering favorite patterns for these two species
- January 25, 2027 - Small Jig Streamers with Hai
Some of Hai's jig leech streamers are best-selling Bow River patterns. Learn the basics of tying jig style streamers.
- February 8, 2027 - Bow River Bugger with Gideon
This session will focus on tying the Bow River Bugger - learn skills to deal with the deer hair collar and more.
- February 22, 2027 - Popper Night with Ray
Join Ray for this night and leave with a popper (or two) to target bass, GT's, and other species.
- March 8, 2027 - Pheasant Tail Simplicity with Craig
Join Craig for this evening focused on a discussion and patterns from the book Pheasant Tail Simplicity (Chouinard, Matthews, Mazzo)
- March 22, 2027 - Spring Creek Dry/Dropper with Joel
Tonight's focus will be on a reliable dry/dropper combination for tricky situations where a foam fly and a tungsten nymph is too much.
- April 5, 2027 - Drake and Skwalla Night with Ray
As the fishing season starts ramping up we figured it was time to focus on a couple of patterns that will be fished in the next couple of months.
Register to reserve your seat - Register Here. Additional details coming soon. Schedule is subject to change - watch here for updates. (If you register for a specific event we will notify you if the date is affected.)
