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These Fly Fishing Schools and Classes are Sponsored by The Fly Fishing Shop for your fun, enjoyment and continuing education.
Learn the ancient art of fly fishing from experts who love to teach.
Offering the Guides and Instructors Team that every other shop wish they had.
Last up-dated 04/10/13.
Fly Fishing Schools:
NOW AVAILABLE !!!
Entry Level Crash Course Trout Fishing Schools
Deschutes River Summer Steelhead Spey Schools 2013
Lodging in Welches
Our Steelhead Guides & Instructors
Steelhead Fly Fishing is a Learning Experience
Learning to Cast
An Instructor's View of Steelhead Schools 
General Class Policy and Refund Policy
Everyone wants to be hooked up...

Because of its unique location, The Fly Fishing Shop is able to offer high quality fly fishing schools.  Our shop boasts the most complete indoor fly fishing classroom on the west coast of North America.  Our instructors are second to none in their dedication and understanding of the sport of fly fishing.  Our community boasts a number of unique man-made amenities that are well suited to beginning anglers. The Mount Hood area has a myriad of small trout streams and lakes that are well suited to both entry level and intermediate anglers. Within easy reach are many fabled steelhead/salmon rivers such as the Sandy, Deschutes, John Day and Clackamas. Each has a different personality and is suited to different experience levels. Take our classes and you will learn a lot in a short period of time.   
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Deschutes River Summer Steelhead Spey Schools 2013
 Your next step toward excellence! Featuring The Best Of The Best !!!
Simon Gawesworth on The Deschutes River, photo: Mark Bachmann
Simon Gawesworth has collaborated on our popular Summer Steelhead PhD Schools since 2002. PhD always sells out early. Simon's next Deschutes Summer Steelhead School is scheduled for:
September 12-15, 2013. Also instructing in this school are Mark Bachmann, Josh Linn & Ron Walp. Luxury river camp with two big jet boats. Six sessions on the water.
Details as follows....

The popular PhD School has been further refined and super-sized. Take four or seven days.
Don't wait to sign up. There is already a waiting list.
Each part of this school features four guides, two big jet boats, and the best camp on the river.
Mid-September is prime time for Deschutes River steelhead fishing. This school intends that you will graduate with extensive proprietary knowledge of steelhead fly fishing and spey rod casting.

We will camp on prime water and we will have boat access to miles
of steelhead runs that will present a diverse array of angling opportunities and challenges.
Classes will be held mid-day. You will fish with a guide each morning and evening.
Brunch and dinner will be served at times to give you the best fishing periods.
This will give you the best advantage for hooking as many steelhead
as possible during your stay with us.
Nothing teaches you more about fishing than being where
fish are being hooked and landed.

You will learn all aspects of Spey rod fishing with both floating and sinking-tip lines.
Learn how to locate steelhead water and how to approach it.
Watch an expert guide as he fishes and discloses the secrets
and proven methods that put fish on the beach.
Get a lot of hands on help (4-guides for 8-students) so that you too can be productive.
Save yourself years of experimenting on your own.

 You will be pampered!
You will stay in a very comfortable tent camp on the water.
A Camp Person will be available at all times to make your stay as comfortable as possible.
All cooking and eating will be done in a spacious screen-house.
Comfortable sleeping cots and pads are supplied in double occupancy tents.
All food & non-alcoholic beverages are included.

Bring your own sleeping bag, clothing, toiletries,
waders, rain gear, rods, reels, flies & tackle.

Price includes your Deschutes Boaters Pass.
Price does not include your Oregon Fishing License, which may be purchased at our store.
Price: $1,895 per person. Non-Refundable Deposit: $1,000 Balance Due: $895 by July 1, 2013

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Meet at Mack's Canyon Camp Ground at:
Noon, September 12, 13, 14, 15 noon, back at Mack's Canyon
First come, first served.
Do to the logistical nature and the demand on these schools,
deposits are transferable to replacement students, but not refundable.
Item Description Price To Top
SPEY-SCH-091215-13 4-day Deschutes steelhead school with Mark Bachmann, Josh Linn, Ron Walp and Simon Gawesworth, September 12 noon-15 noon, 2013 Deposit
$1,000
Non-Refundable, transaction will be processed after 01/15/12		 SOLD OUT!
More Excellence !!!
Dec Hogan Joins The Fly Fishing Shop Instructor Staff

Dec Hogan has often been referred to as “a guide’s guide” and “a steelheader’s steelheader.” Why? Because he knows his stuff inside and out. The boon to that is he’s as passionate and adept about teaching and sharing information as he is doing it. Hogan lived the dream guiding steelhead fly anglers year ‘round on many of The Pacific Northwest’s premier rivers from 1989 through 2003. Now Dec is realizing his other dream occupation and is a fulltime Firefighter/EMT in Layton, Utah. A retirement pension, health insurance, and job security ain’t such a bad thing either. Hogan’s schedule at the firehouse allows him ample time to continue instructing and entertaining the fly fishing masses and designing rods for Echo, and fly lines for Airflo. He has written, and continues to write for, many of North America’s fly fishing publications, is an accomplished photographer and is one of the world’s foremost sought after spey casting instructors. Dec has starred in both spey casting and fly tying instructional DVD’s as well as authoring the highly acclaimed must-have book, A Passion for Steelhead. Wild River Press.

Price: $1,895 per person.  Non-Refundable Deposit: $1,000 Balance Due: $895 by July 1, 2013
Meet at Mack's Canyon Camp Ground at:
Noon, September 15, 16, 17, 18 noon, back at Mack's Canyon
First come, first served.
Do to the logistical nature and the demand on these schools,
deposits are transferable to replacement students, but not refundable.
Item Description Price To Top
SPEY-SCH-091518-13 4-day Deschutes steelhead school with Mark Bachmann, Josh Linn, Ron Walp and Dec Hogan Deposit
$1,000
Non-Refundable, transaction will be processed after 01/02/13		 SOLD OUT!

Deschutes Summer Steelhead Spey Mega School
7 Full Days, 5 Instructors, 12 Class Sessions, 12 Fishing Sessions.
This is the most complete Deschutes Summer Steelhead Spey School offered for 2013. It features 7-days on the water during the peak of the steelhead season, with the most sophisticated camp and the most experienced set of instructors available. Mark Bachmann, Simon Gawesworth, Dec Hogan, Josh Linn and Ron Walp are your hosts with a combined steelhead fly fishing experience foundation of over 100 years. Two big, powerful, jet boats give you easy access to many, many miles of prime water. Arrive September 12 and stay until September 18.
Basically both of the schools above combined.
Price: $3,595 per person. Non-Refundable Deposit: $2,000 Balance Due: $1,595 by July 1, 2013
 Meet at Mack's Canyon Camp Ground at: September 12 noon -18 noon.
First come, first served.
Do to the logistical nature and the demand on these schools,
deposits are transferable to replacement students, but not refundable.
Item Description Price To Top
DE-MEGA-13 Deschutes Summer Steelhead Spey Mega School Deposit
$2,000
Non-Refundable, transaction will be processed after 01/15/13		 SOLD OUT!

Steelhead Fly Fishing: Is A Learning Experience
It can be called, "Steelhead Fly Fishing" or "Fly Fishing For Steelhead".  This sport leads to a deeper understanding of the natural world that we and steelhead live in. Steelhead are magical creatures; unique among fishes.  They have much to teach us. For that reason alone, fly fishing for steelhead is worth the pursuit.  You know they are beautiful.  You've seen all of those fresh steelhead pictures on our web site.  There are pictures from all times of the year and from many different rivers.  All those beautiful  steelhead were caught
with flies.  You know that, and now you want to catch some steelhead with flies yourself.  But, you've heard from other anglers that catching steelhead with flies is very difficult.  You've heard right.  A very small percentage of the fly-angling public catches steelhead with flies.  Yet, some of those anglers catch lots of steelhead per season.  They do it with the right tackle and the right acquired skills.  Our steelhead schools are designed to give you those skills in the quickest, most efficient, most fun, most cost effective manner possible.  It's easy: First learn to cast.  Then learn to present the fly.  Then learn to hunt.  Then learn to land steelhead.
Our Steelhead Class Instructors & Guides An instructor is the person who teaches a school to prepare you for a certain task.   A guide is a person who takes you to a certain place.  Our guides are also instructors. However, any guided fly fishing trip will be more productive if you have already acquired the skills to deliver the fly to the fish.   Attending a series of steelhead fly fishing schools before going on a guided trip can pay real dividends.
Mark Bachmann Mark Bachmann Josh Linn Josh Linn Travis Johnson
Travis Johnson		 Marcy Stone
Marcy Stone
Simon Gawesworth Simon Gawesworth George Cook
George Cook		 Dec Hogan
Dec Hogan
 Ron Walp
Ron Walp
LEARNING TO CAST Learning to cast well is the most essential part of learning to catch steelhead.  We use both single-hand and two-hand fly rods.  The two-hand fly rod, has become the most popular instrument for presenting flies to steelhead and salmon. This is especially true when larger rivers are being fished. Spey rods allow any angler to cover more water, more efficiently. A Spey rod enables an angler to present his or her flies at longer ranges, even where there is little room for a back-cast . This is because the back cast is not aerolized. Rather a change-of-direction roll cast is performed.  This is called a Spey cast.  There are many types of spey casts.  Some are hundreds of years old.  Others have recently evolved.  You can learn all of them from us.  We offer the best instruction in a comprehensive, yet affordable package.
General Class Policy and Refund Policy We take our schools seriously. They are the best of their kind you can attend.  In order to coordinate students, equipment and instructors with a minimum of problems, we stick to an exacting schedule and curriculum.  In order to maintain an atmosphere where teaching and learning can be done efficiently, disruption has to be kept to a minimum.  In group classes no alteration in starting time or place will be made for any individual. Show up on-time, organized and ready to be part of a team effort.  Scheduling a class involves scheduling instructors time and in some cases scheduling support people.  Once your deposit is received those people are reserved for you.  When we accept your deposit we have formed a contract to serve you.  You have signed a contract to attend.  
Classes not booked with the minimum number of students to hold a class, (or float), seven days before the classes starting date- students will be notified, and the class may be subject to change - and may be rescheduled to the next session.  If less than the minimum number of  students needed to hold a “group” class are registered, the class can still be taught, but the cost will be according to the “number of individual” students per instructor.
Students who don't show up for a class will not be rescheduled without a new fee.  

What you should bring for outdoor classes.

  1. Rain Coat (earth-tones for fishing schools).
  2. Polarized glasses.
  3. You should bring waders for all fly fishing schools.
  4. Rod, reel & flies will be provided.

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