Stan's fly tying classes

[Highlander]

I note that Stan The Man is holding fly tying classes in Fife that are for
"experienced tiers" I just wonder who the instructors will be.
:roll:

[Inchlaggan]

Why the plural "instructors"?
"There can be only one."
- as "Highlander" you should know that!

[Wildfisher]

I just wonder who the instructors will be.

instructors?

Surely if run by Stan there can only be one instructor.  There should be no need for another.

[Wildfisher]

Incidentally does Stan hold  any fly tying certificates, qualifications etc?

[Inchlaggan]

Incidentally does Stan hold  any fly tying certificates, qualifications etc?

Omniscience should cover it.

[Wildfisher]

I reckon Stan will run a damned good fly tying class. He is without doubt a first class tier and innovative in his pattern design. Yes I know  some are not too keen on his articles etc (a lot of envy there IMO) but lets give credit where it is due.  If I lived closer I'd go along and support  it. Stan is a well known author, gets lots of articles published and is quite obliviously in demand.  He must be doing something right.

He walks the walk   while others  just talk the talk 

In other words he actually does things and that's a quality I admire.

[Wildfisher]

does he do sedgehogs?

He invented them.   :shock:

[Malcolm]

Maybe but I'd argue not, it was an evolution. There was a superb fly tier called Peter Scott, a writer for Fly Fishing and Fly Tying, and known to a few on this forum that came up with the concept of shaving the underside of a long haired muddler, one with the tips of the deer hair spread along the shank. This fly sat right in the surface and was a superb sedge imitation and very, very similar to the sedgehog. He first tied this to my certain knowledge about 17-18 years ago. Alberto may remember his demonstration of this fly.   

[Tweed]

There was a superb fly tier called Peter Scott,

Now there was a master at the art.  I was fortunate enough to see a few demonstrations by him at a club I used to attend - a fair few years ago now mind.  Is he still plying his craft?

Andrew

[garryh]

as Malcolm says it was an evolution.i was handed a fly in the early nineties by an Orcadian angler who told me it was doing great things in Orkney it was called the Hedgehog.basically a sedgehog without the hackle.even further back when a new angling club was being formed in 1983 .it was named the hedgehog angling club because of a fly we used back then which Bill Martindale who managed the lake of Mentieth, christened the hedgehog when he saw it.every time he saw the guys in the car park he would shout here come the hedgehogs.I'm sure many people have used similar flies in the past but did not publicise it.

Garry