flytire 0 Report post Posted October 31 Home - International Fly Tying Symposium Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ephemerella 0 Report post Posted November 3 I'll be there tying various streamers from the Rangeley region of Maine, including several recently discovered, unpublished unnamed patterns by Carrie Stevens. -Peter Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gadabout 0 Report post Posted November 18 I was at the Symposium this weekend, my first time attending. Overall, I enjoyed it. A few of the vendors there were very well stocked with materials, notably Bob Selb and also Badger Creek Fly Fishing. I was able to pick up a few things I needed, especially some old Mustad hooks. I attended Barry Orde Clarke’s photography seminar, which was very good. Surprisingly, most of the seminars were on fly fishing rather than fly tying. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flytire 0 Report post Posted November 18 On 11/3/2024 at 1:59 PM, Ephemerella said: I'll be there tying various streamers from the Rangeley region of Maine, including several recently discovered, unpublished unnamed patterns by Carrie Stevens. -Peter would be nice to share them here Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ephemerella 0 Report post Posted November 18 7 hours ago, flytire said: would be nice to share them here Sure...my web site has about 180 of these unnamed, unknown, or unusual Carrie Stevens patterns, along with a little info on where the original fly was discovered in my search, and my ties of them. I don't sell anything on the site (yet) and it is ad-free and malware/virus free. The site: www.petersimonsonflydresser.com Look for "Catalog of Patterns" on the top of any page on the site. I have not yet taken decent photos of the two "new" previously unknown streamers that I did tie at the show. In the next month or so I will be adding 5 more patterns, found this year, after I get to tying them, taking the images, installing them onto the site, etc. The images attached are a couple of the 180 on my site. These are my renditions of the patterns. The one with the deep red and light olive wing I identify as "Unnamed Streamer LH-04" and the white one with the barred shoulder I call "SP - Unknown 4". The true names are (still) unknown. The SP - Unknown 4 was found in the Schmidlin-Palmer collection, and since Don Palmer's death a few years ago the collection was auctioned off and split up to various owners. The Unnamed Streamer LH-04 was in another private collection, the owner of which generously shared photos of the original with me, and I was able to identify its recipe. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bruce Derington 0 Report post Posted November 18 I knew Mike Martinek and was happy to have taken a couple classes from him. I have a few of his Carrie fly’s, would either of you guys have any interest in them? I have a couple “matted” but the others are sitting in a box. I’d be glad to offer them to either , not looking for any money, them sitting in a drawer seems wrong Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
niveker 0 Report post Posted November 19 19 hours ago, Ephemerella said: The site: www.petersimonsonflydresser.com That's an impressive site, thanks for sharing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ephemerella 0 Report post Posted November 19 Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the site and learned something from the Pattern Notes for any patterns you looked at. It is a relatively small number of tyers that tie these flies, and only a few more that enjoy seeing them and learning about them. At shows I'm busy all day with interested folks, but that's maybe 12-15 days a year. Web site traffic on my site is pretty low - in the tying season maybe 2-4 a day, peaking to 6-8 hits on Sundays to Tuesdays after a show. But I do get hits from around the world, even with the overall small number of site visitors. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flytire 0 Report post Posted November 20 nice web site i know what i'm doing this winter 🤪🤪👍👍 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
