The Fly Tying Club was started in 1957 by Bert Sharp, author of " Let's fish the Clyde" and " Lets fish again", Bert ran his classes for many years, passing on his skills and patterns for his beloved Clydestyle Flies.
After his passing in 1983 his close friend and UCAPA colleague Bill Gentles took over the club, teaching numerious enthusiastic flytyers in the Lanarkshire area and beyond.
Since Bill's passing the club is now run by a committee, and has a healthy membership of enthusiastic fly-tyers and fly fishers.
In an age when modern innovations overshadow traditions, the Sharp & Gentles Flytying Club is a place where the echoes of the past resonate with the aspirations of the future ensuring that the craft of Clydestyle flytying will endure.
The club meet every Thursday from 7.00pm to 9.00pm from September to Easter at the Whitehill Neighbourhood Centre in Hamilton.
This week we were tying the Blae & Ginger and after a few days of practice at the vice I Im really pleased with the progress Im making.
On this particular version Ive stayed pretty much true to the description in Bert's book.
Ive tied this with a size 14 Fulling Mill hook, yellow Uni 8/0 thread, two turns of gold tinsel, two turns of light ginger hen kacke and pairded slips of Snipe secondary covert feathers.
It's just a pity that next week will be the last week of the current session however I look forward to club reconvening again in September, it will be something to look forward to during the dark winter months.
In the meantime there is plenty of fishing to look forward to for the next eight or so months and of course a bit of flytying here and there too.
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