Advanced Stillwater Strategies - a fly fishing course for stillwater anglers

Advanced Stillwater Strategies
featuring: Todd Oishi

The "Advanced Stillwater Strategies" course is designed for intermediate and advanced fly fishers (beginners are also very welcome). This one-day advanced fly fishing course is packed full of invaluable information that will improve your overall fly fishing abilities and knowledge of our sport. Todd will teach you a series of highly-effective floating and sinking-line techniques and tactics that will significantly improve your chances of hooking and landing greater numbers of trout. You will also learn about the importance of colour and lighting, and how it effects fly pattern selection. Your time spent with in the classroom with Todd will not only increase your overall angling success, but will allow you to approach your favorite still waters with a whole new approach and a much greater level of confidence.

Todd, a stillwater angling specialist, is very active and involved in the world of competitive fly-fishing. His teams have consistently finished within the top-three and in first-place on several ocassions at Highland Valley's "Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament". At the Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships: Todd won the Individual Gold Medal in 2005; the Individual Bronze Medal in 2009; as well as three Team Gold Medals in the past five years. He has competed internationally a total of ten times as a member of the Canadian National Fly Fishing Team for the North American, Commonwealth and World Fly Fishing Championships. He served as the Captain of Team Canada at the 2009 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships in Scotland. Now Todd is revealing some of his secrets through this course, which has helped to make him one of the top competitive fly fisherman in Canada.

The "Advanced Stillwater Strategies" course will cover and address the following important topics:

• Safety
• Equipment and fly-lines
• Characteristics and behaviour of trout
• Reading the water
• The importance of colour and contrast
• Fly patterns selection
• Floating-line techniques
• Sinking-line techniques
• Loch-style fly-fishing strategies
• Understanding “The Take”
• Proper handling & releasing techniques
• Fly-tying demonstration of three of Todd’s most productive stillwater patterns

Date and time: Saturday, April 17th @ 9:00am - 3:30pm
Location: Upstairs Learning Centre @ Hatch Match'r Fly & Tackle
#9 - 22935 Lougheed Highway, Maple Ridge
Cost: $50.00 per student (please bring a lunch. Coffee, muffins and donuts supplied).

Seating is limited, so call (604) 467-7118 to reserve a spot today!

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