Summary

Activities include

Speaker: Skip Morris, noted author and lecturer
Speaker: Van Beacham, guide and author of The Fly Fisher’s Guide to New Mexico
Speaker: Karen Denison, High Desert Angler in Santa Fe
Fly-tying and knot-tying demonstrations throughout the day
Split bamboo rod building showcase
Raffles for gear and trips; there are specific raffle items for women and youths

Each speaker will give a series of talks throughout the day. Ms. Denison’s presentations will focus on topics of particular interest to women. The Conclave will also include clinics on beginning and advanced fly-casting, fishing knots, aquatic insect entomology, and a raffle of donated fly fishing gear and other items.

The cost of admission this year is $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. Children 13 and under will be admitted free, but please fill out the ticket form to ensure that we have enough lunches.

Lunches are included for attendees who purchase tickets by 10am on February 5.

Details

Schedule

8:30–9:00	Registration
9:00–9:30	Introductions, announcements, reports & awards
9:30–10:30	Skip Morris, Make Nymph Fishing Work and Van Beacham, Northern NM /Southern CO
10:45–11:45	Skip Morris, Make Dry Fly & Emerger Fishing Work and Van Beacham, Wyoming
11:45–1:00	Lunch
1:00–2:00	Skip Morris, Make Dry Fly & Emerger Fishing Work and Karen Denison, Fly Fishing for Women
2:15–3:15	Skip Morris, Make Nymph Fishing Work and Van Beacham, Northern NM /Southern CO and Women’s casting
3:30–4:00	Skip Morris, Creeks
4:00–5:00	Raffle drawing
All day	Fly-tying, knot-tying and bamboo rod building demonstration; raffle tickets; casting instruction (weather permitting)

Featured speakers

Skip Morris

This year we will be featuring noted author and fly tyer Skip Morris. Skip Morris is among the most prolific fly-fishing and fly-tying authors alive—his name is known to anglers around the world.

He has written eighteen books on fly fishing and tying, including the established standard beginning fly tier’s volume Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple, and The Art of Tying the Bass Fly, Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes (with lake-fishing guru Brian Chan), Concise Handbook of Fly Tying, and Fly Fisher’s Guide to Western River Hatches.

Skip has published over 250 articles on fly fishing and tying in magazines from Fly Fisherman to American Angler. For three years he was among the hosts of the Fly-Fish Television Magazine show.

Skip will present on Making Nymph Fishing Work, Making Dry Fly and Emerger Fishing Work and a fun and informative session on Creeks.

Skip will also be here on Sunday the 7^th for a fly tying seminar from 11 AM to 3 PM. This special event will be limited to the first 20 paid respondents at a cost of $30.00 to include lunch. This will be a bring your own tools and materials event. We will provide a list of suggested material before the event. Come out and learn some new patterns and techniques before the big game Sunday evening. Please Contact Brian Beaudoin to reserve your spot for Sunday’s fly tying seminar by email or 505-281-0092.

Van Beacham

Van is a fourth generation New Mexican born in Santa Fe in 1958. His great-grandfather William Beacham started the “fly fishing in New Mexico” family tradition when he opened the first hardware and fishing tackle shop in Santa Fe in the 1908. Van was the founder and owner/operator of Los Rios Anglers Fly Shop and Guide Service in Taos from 1983 to 1996 and now owns The Solitary Angler.

He’s been guiding since 1980 and currently has operations in New Mexico, southern Colorado and southwest Wyoming. Van has written extensively about flyfishing and was a co-author of the book Fly Fishing In Northern NM, edited by Craig Martin and the Fly Fisher’s Guide to New Mexico. He regularly gives lectures, clinics, and slide presentations for flyfishing clubs throughout the country. He also operates an annual flyfishing guide school in Taos, where he resides.

Van will be providing informative sessions on Northern NM/Southern CO and Wyoming.

Karen Denison

Karen Denison is a 30-year resident of Santa Fe, a former biologist turned guide for the area she loves. Among her other activities, she is an avid fly fisher, co-author of a regional fly tying book, Fly Patterns of Northern New Mexico, an instructor at the local community college in map-reading and hand-held GPS use, and an active volunteer for a number of area non-profits. She has been guiding visitors in the northern New Mexico outdoors since 1997. Karen is a former guide for High Desert Anglers as well as the Reel Life in Santa Fe.

Karen is providing a special presentation and casting clinic (weather permitting) for the conclave this year that will focus on women and flyfishing. She will cover things such as technical clothing for the ladies to the differences that are specific to women. For all you ladies out there that are interested to learn about flyfishing or advance your skills from an extremely knowledgeable person that can give you a woman’s take on the sport now is your chance! Guys, bring your spouses, significant others, daughters or friends that have always had an interest out to learn more.

Purchase tickets

Ticket cost

Members – $25 for members and
Nonmembers – $35 for nonmembers.
Children 12 and under – free, but please fill out the ticket form

You can purchase tickets in the following ways

Online using PayPal or a credit card. You will receive a confirmatory ticket by return email.
Starting January 12 – at Los Pinos Fly Shop, 4360 Cutler Ave NE or Charlie’s Sporting Goods, 8908 Menaul NE
At the January 12 general meeting
At the door (although lunch will not be included)