For March, we are privileged to have Jay Fair as our program speaker. Jay’s web site www.eagleflyfishing.com has a full description of Jay’s background, his flies, and his guide service.

Here’s some of what Jay has to say:

“As a young boy in 1936, I became a nut for fly-fishing and now at 80 years old I still feel the same.

”Being raised in northern New Mexico I knew every rock and riffle in all the rivers. At thirteen I was tying my own flies and would fish everyday for 90 straight days in the summer….

”Fifty years ago I decided to dye my own feathers, as the colors desired were not available. Of course at that time more trout fishing was needed in my life so I moved to northern California and that filled the ticket.

”All of my friends wanted colors like summer duck, rust, burnt orange, leech brown, dark cinnamon and many other colors. I wasn't selling them then and to get those colors was quite expensive. That is when I decided to start J Fair's Hand Tied Flies and Supplies, now known as Eagle Fly Fishing. It was a nice hobby and I was on the water everyday with my son Glenn and son-in-law Randy Siever. They both have over 40 years of fly-fishing under their belt and I have 67 on the water. Any way you look at it, it equals 147 years of experience. You cannot fish that many years without learning something.

“I learned in the early years that a dyed grizzly hackle would out fish anything. And a weighted nymph fished with a floating line, dead drifting it in the wind is extremely deadly. Big fish are easily caught this way. Still water fisheries produce large trout. Of course fishing with our Wiggle Tail helps a lot.
 
”My buddy Denny Richards and myself guided Klamath Lake and Montana for many years. We have had great times together and he uses a lot of our materials.”