Maintaining Chapter Engagement
While we are all practicing social distancing, there are still good ways to engage with each other in pursuing our passion for fly fishing. CVTU member and Board Director, John Hildenbrand, has been organizing virtual fly tying sessions using the Zoom Communications web meeting platform. Over the past couple of weeks there have been several sessions held with as many as a dozen people attending with full video/audio connections, demonstrating some of their favorite patterns for trout, bass and saltwater species.
The sessions are highly interactive and very productive in output. We have focused on our favorite nymphs, dries, streamers and saltwater patterns. The only thing required to join these sessions is a laptop, tablet, or even your smartphone, and an internet connection. The Zoom application is easy to use and basically bulletproof once you’ve used it once.
Sunday afternoon April 5th, saw the group tying a variety of Prince Nymphs, Clousers, Midge patterns and Caddis Larva.
Dave Surowiecki’s Prince Nymph
John Hildenbrand’s Clousers
Mark McBeth’s Prince
Emery Mersich’s Mil-Spec Perdigon
Eric Nadoban’s Prince
Mark’s hydropsyche caddis larva