WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE FOR THE FLY DRESSER’S GUILD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the website of The Fly Dressers’ Guild - it has information on joining, how to find an FDG branch near you, the Guild's fly-tying awards and competition and much more.  You will also find a list of events where the Guild or its branches will be in attendance.

For Guild members, the 'Members Only' area holds a fly patterns database, a large number of illustrated patterns and step by step instructions, fly-tying hints and tips, articles of fly-tying and fishing-related matters, and details of discounts available to members, amongst other things.

We hope you enjoy the site and if you have any ideas for future content please contact the General Secretary, secretary@flydressersguild.org.

We will also keep you updated on the FDG Facebook page - www.facebook.com/FlyDressersGuild.

Chris Reeves, General Secretary - 26 December 2022

 

When you sit down to tie a fly, you take a seat at a very large, very old table. As you go through the magazines, books, and videos—taking and ignoring advice, learning tricks and shortcuts, discerning and taking sides in old debates, then picking and choosing a pattern, a style, eventually even an aesthetic stance—you participate in a long, complicated, and apparently endless conversation over those and many other matters. You join not merely a club, but a guild.
  —Paul Schullery, Cowboy Trout

 

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Summer updates to the website!

Summer updates to the open part of the website include details of the 2023/24 Fly Tying Competition to the website and some hints and tips that you might find useful.  Further updates have been made to the Members’ Only...

Tips & Techniques

(extracted from the Winter 2018 issue of Flydresser)   One of the beauties of attending fly-tying shows like BFFI and fly-tying demonstrations where you can get close up to the fly- tyer is getting to ask and hear about...

Tips & Techniques

(extracted from the Winter 2018 issue of Flydresser)   One of the beauties of attending fly-tying shows like BFFI and fly-tying demonstrations where you can get close up to the fly- tyer is getting to ask and hear about...

2023-24 Fly-Tying Competition – 30 March 2024

2023-24 Fly-Tying Competition The patterns for the 2023/24 Fly Tying Competition have been published in the Summer issue of Flydresser and are also set out in the Fly-Tying Competition page of this website, together with the...