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Back in April I revived the old pages from the FlyMeister 2001 competition that was held by GFF. I just forgot to tell about it!

The International Fly Tying Symposium was held on November 17th and 18th in Somerset, New Jersey. As usual, the place was wall-to-wall fly tyers, tying everything from giant saltwater streamers to trout flies. Streamers, salmon flies, you name it - someone was tying it.

How to go from Europe, Colorado and Endicott, NY to a fly show in New Jersey for 2½ days and still feel that it was worth all the trouble.

Martin's Story

What can I say? A crazy plan all the way! To go to New York for less than three days essentially to be together with a couple of fly fishing friends. How do you tell your wife, your kids, yourself - and your bank - that this is sane?
You don't, basically ...

Well, line up your arguments anyway:

The New Jersey area is not the worst place to be in November. This is the story about a lot of fishing and fly tying done in that area in the fall of 1997.

This story was mailed late november 1996 to both the U.S. and European flyfishing mailing lists.