February Meeting

For February’s meeting, we have a special speaker, Ed Engle, from Colorado. His presentation will be ‘Catching the Difficult Trout’. More about Ed below, and also check out his website.

For this meeting we are joining forces with the Tualatin Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited and will be meeting in their location:

The Lucky Lab Public House in Multnomah Village Directions are linked.

Special thanks to Hank Hosfield for helping coordinate this meeting.

Ed Engle has been an avid fly fisherman for the past 30 years. He has fly fished throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Mexico, Chile and in Europe for a variety of game fish species with a special emphasis on trout.

As a fly fisherman Ed is especially interested in small fly tactics and techniques. His small fly fishing research has taken him to a many of the West's famous tailwaters and to spring creeks across the country. He is also dedicated to fly fishing small streams and high country lakes for wild trout. Ed balances out his interest in the “small side of fly fishing” with the avid pursuit of king salmon on the fly.

Ed lives west of Colorado Springs, Colorado within 40 miles of the South Platte River, one of Colorado’s premier tailwaters, where he guides and instructs fly fishers.

CURRENT PUBLICATION HISTORY AND QUALIFICATIONS

Southwest Field Editor for FLY FISHERMAN MAGAZINE

Strategies for Streams Columnist FLY FISHING & FLY TYING JOURNAL

Outdoor Writer for the BOULDER DAILY CAMERA

Regular Contributor to AMERICAN ANGLER

FREELANCE MAGAZINE articles and photographs have appeared in: Fly Fisherman Magazine, Fly Rod & Reel, American Angler, Trout, Warmwater Fly Fishing, Fly Tyer, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Angler’s Journal, Sports Afield, Fly Fishing Magazine, and Gray's Journal.

BOOKS: FLY FISHING THE TAILWATERS is a how-to book about fly fishing for trout in the regulated waters that occur below dams (Stackpole, 1991). SEASONAL: A LIFE OUTSIDE is a collection of essays about the 12 years Ed spent as a seasonal employee in the U.S. Forest Service (Pruett Publishing, 1989). SPLITTING CANE: CONVERSATIONS WITH BAMBOO ROD MAKERS is a collection of interviews Ed Engle conducted with bamboo fly rod makers over a period of five years. The appendix includes additional information of interest to bamboo fly rod aficionados (Stackpole, Fall 2002). TYING SMALL FLIES is a compilation of the “Small Flies” columns that Ed has written for FLY TYER magazine for the past eight years. All of the columns have been updated with additional information for this volume. (Stackpole, 2004). FISHING SMALL FLIES is the companion volume to “Tying Small Flies”. It details tactics and techniques for fishing small flies. (Stackpole, 2005).