Fly Fish NH Show Volunteers:
Thank you all for volunteering at the 2020 Fly Fish NH Show last Saturday. Your willingness to lend a hand wherever it was needed and your positive attitudes certainly helped make the show the great. It seemed that whenever I needed someone to help out with something, one or more of you were always there to do it. Many of you return year after year to donate your valuable time and significant efforts to make the Show a success. And what a success it was!
Some significant milestones of the 2020 Fly Fish NH Show:
- Most exhibitor booths – 50
- Most paid attendance – approximately 640
- Most total attendance – a little over 800
The exhibitors especially appreciated your help. I can’t remember how many times that a vendor told me that they exhibit at many of the fly fishing shows up and down the east coast and that this is their favorite. They love the venue, the management of the venue, the setup, the attendance, the quaintness and the camaraderie. And nowhere else they go do they have such friendly volunteers helping out as much as you all did. I am very proud to represent a Chapter such as ours that has so many dedicated and friendly people willing to pitch in when needed. I am sure that last Saturday’s attendees enjoyed themselves immensely at the Show and went home with an appreciation of what the Merrimack River Valley Chapter of TU was able to accomplish.
You should also be very proud and happy to learn that we collected $900 for the Ron Sowa Memorial Youth Fund raffle which we will be donating to the NH TU Kids Trout Camp in his name.
Best Regards,
Joel Kasper
President
Merrimack River Valley Chapter – TU
Fly Fish New Hampshire Show List of Exhibitors
Thank you FFNH Show Exhibitors for the best show ever !!!
Allagash Tails
Back in the Maine Stream
Broadside International
Cabins at Lopstick
Capitol City Fly Tyers
Casting for Recovery
Catchalure Fly & Lure Retriever
Chick Embroidery
Dan’s Fly Shop
Elliott’s Hand Tied Flies
F.D. Kretchman Rod Co.
Fly Fishers International
Fish On Streamers
Fish Story Guide Service
Fisherman’s Choice Custom Flies
Flyosophy Charters – Capt. Mark Dysinger
Fly Spoke Shop
Hill Country Guides
HMH Vises
Joe Calcavecchia Saltwater Flies
Lou Zambello/David van Wie
Merrimack River Valley Trout Unlimited
Nashua Flycasters
Native Fish Coalition
NH Fish & Game/Operation Game Thief
NH Guides Association
NH Rivers Guide Service
NH State TU Council/NH Trout Camp
NH Wildlife Federation
North Country Angler
Northwind Outfitters & Guide Services
Osprey Fishing Adventures
Red Brook Tenkara
Rising Tide Anglers
Samantha Aronson
Shadcreek Flies
Shoals Fly Fishing – Capt. Peter Whelan
Stripers Forever
Sunny Brook Nets
Tall Timber Lodge
The Fly Rod Shop
Three Rivers Stocking Association
Tom Jutras
Trecko & Papa
United Fly
Wildlife Heritage Foundation of NH
SEMINAR SCHEDULE
(Click link for printable copy) Seminar Schedule 2020 Final
Saturday February 22, 2020
Seminars are held in the Roosevelt Room Next Door
10:00am
Bill Bernhardt
Fly Fishing the Upper Connecticut Valley
with Lopstick Outfitters
11:00am
Angus Boezeman
Fly Fishing Techniques and Strategies with an open Q&A
12:00 noon
Dave Kolesar
Fishing the Large Rivers of New Hampshire
1:00pm
Bob Shannon
Vermont Trout Streams: A Fly Angler’s Guide to the Best
2:00pm
Rick Little
Saltwater Fly Fishing – Lessons Learned
3:00pm
Lou Zambello & David van Wie
20 Awesome Places to Fly Fish in the Northeast
That You Haven’t Heard of or Tried
FLY TYING DEMOS
(Click link for printable copy) Fly Tying Demonstration Schedule 2020 Final
Saturday February 22, 2020
10:00 am
Scott Biron tying the Brookie’s Regret
11:00 am
Craig Andree tying the Articulated Brahma Fly, an improvement to the infamous Wooly Bugger
12:00 noon
Joe Calcavecchia tying “Effective Flies That Guides Use Every Day”
1:00 pm
Danny LaPointe tying the Ausable Bomber,
a “mountain stream specialist”
2:00pm
Captain Mark Dysinger tying Fun With Crustaceans: Suggestive Flats Critters