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Yesterday, February 18th, the club had a booth at the Tie-Fest fly tying extravaganza in Queenstown, Maryland. This event started in the basement of some TidalFish folks a few years ago as an informal gathering of fly tyers and has grown to where the Moose Lodge was filled with over 200 fly people of all ages (and I mean ALL ages). Here is a picture of the club's booth along with some of the members who helped out:
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There were lots of other members in attendance including Scott Newlin and his son (sorry, I forget his name), Val Fox and his granddaughter "Peanut," John McMinn, Rick Bender, Terry Peach, Frank Danner, Bob Barker, Bill Graham, Mason Huffman, Walt Knapp, Joe Nowak, Mark Saba, Paul Saneholtz, and Paul Mattherws. I apologize if I forgot someone but maybe Bill O. will help/correct me. It was pretty busy!
There were two fly shops with booths (A Marblehead Fly Fisher and Winchester Creek Outfitters), three rod companies (Temple Fork Outfitters, Sage, and St. Croix), The Coastal Conservation Association, a local artist named Jay ? who does lovely paintings of peoples's trophy catches, some guides, the "TidalFish.com guy" Brandon White, a nice booth with antique fly rods and reels, as welll as a large U-shaped center area with dozens of fly tiers showing their stuff.
The club signed up several new members and got some good exposure. I must pat ourselves on the back a bit but I think we had the best looking display at the show!
There were lots of other members in attendance including Scott Newlin and his son (sorry, I forget his name), Val Fox and his granddaughter "Peanut," John McMinn, Rick Bender, Terry Peach, Frank Danner, Bob Barker, Bill Graham, Mason Huffman, Walt Knapp, Joe Nowak, Mark Saba, Paul Saneholtz, and Paul Mattherws. I apologize if I forgot someone but maybe Bill O. will help/correct me. It was pretty busy!
There were two fly shops with booths (A Marblehead Fly Fisher and Winchester Creek Outfitters), three rod companies (Temple Fork Outfitters, Sage, and St. Croix), The Coastal Conservation Association, a local artist named Jay ? who does lovely paintings of peoples's trophy catches, some guides, the "TidalFish.com guy" Brandon White, a nice booth with antique fly rods and reels, as welll as a large U-shaped center area with dozens of fly tiers showing their stuff.
The club signed up several new members and got some good exposure. I must pat ourselves on the back a bit but I think we had the best looking display at the show!
