Help the museum add to our Wild Watersheds exhibit by showing-off your fly tying skills!

October 26, 2020

Help the museum add to our Wild Watersheds exhibit by showing-off your fly tying skills! VMNH is hosting a fly tying contest (www.vmnh.net/fly-tying-contest) to find the best examples of tied flies, which will be included inside the Wild Watersheds exhibit!

On Tuesday, October 27th at 6:30pm, Project Healing Waters of Charlottesville (an organization dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and disabled veterans through fly fishing) is teaming up with us to provide a live tutorial on how to tie a parachute dry fly, imitating a sulphur mayfly or sulphur dun (Ephemerella dorothea). They will also explore how, with some simple color changes, we can imitate many other mayfly species, including Blue-Wing Olives, Pale Morning Duns, and many others. We encourage you to watch, tie along, and submit your flies to the VMNH fly tying contest.