For many fly fishers, unravelling the mysteries of stillwaters is a daunting and often frustrating experience. Frequently referred to as fishing a black hole, lakes appear vast and intimidating. Still, the rewards of having a sound understanding of how they work and how to fish them will provide a lifetime of fly fishing opportunities and experiences.
Join Phil and Brian in the comprehensive 12-session online course as they use their combined 75 years of on-the-water stillwater fly fishing experience to help you understand how lakes work and provide you with various proven tactics, techniques, and fly patterns they use to catch fish consistently.
This course will make you a better lake fly fisher.
The cost for our comprehensive 12-session LIVE course is just $199.95 CDN.
Over the 12, minimum 1.5-hour, online sessions this detailed course contains, you will learn the following:
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Twelve live online Zoom sessions, minimum 1.5 hours/session.
- Unlimited access to each session recording so you can review the content repeatedly or if you can’t make a session.
- Detailed, comprehensive presentation technique sessions include floating lines with and without indicators, slow sinking lines, fast sinking lines, and adult and emerger tactics.
- Boat set up, including integrating electronics into your chironomid presentations
- On-camera leader and knots construction, including droppers
- Match, tie, and fish larvae, pupa, and adults, including emergers.
- Phil and Brian will dedicate two sessions to teach and demonstrate how to tie a variety of their favourite stillwater patterns, covering a range of styles and tying options.
- Entomology and the relationship to pattern design and material choice.
- Fly Pattern Recipes, including images (PDF).
- Materials Listing (You are welcome and encouraged to tie along with Phil and Brian)-provided to you before the start of the course (PDF).
- Discount Codes for Canadian Llama and Fly Fish Food for fly tying material purchases
- A one-time 20% discount code applies to any purchase within our Stillwater Fly Fishing Store.
- Access to the Stillwater Academy private Facebook Group
Our 11-session course begins on Monday, March 10, 2025, at 8 PM Mountain Time/7 pm Pacific Time.
Course Outline and Session Dates
- Session #1 Monday, March 10, 2024: Rods, Reels, Making Sense of Stillwater Fly Lines and Accessories
- Session #2 Wednesday, March 12, 2025: Leaders, Knots and Droppers (On Camera Leader, Knots and Droppers Construction)
- Session #3 Monday, March 17, 2025: Limnology, Understanding How Lakes Work
- Session #4 Wednesday, March 19, 2025: Subsurface Floating Line Techniques, Long Leader Nymphing and Advanced Indicator Tactics
- Session #5 Monday, March 24, 2025: Advanced Sinking Line Strategies and Tactics
- Session #6 Wednesday 26, 2025: Inducing a Take, Stillwater Presentation Techniques
- Session #7 Monday, March 31, 2025: The Power of Attraction
- Session #8 Wednesday, April 2, 2025: Electronics for the Fly Fisher
- Session #9 Monday, April 7, 2025: Loch Style Techniques and Tactics
- Session #10 Wednesday, April 9, 2025: Favourite Patterns (On Camera Tying Session With Brian)
- Session #11 Monday, April 14, 2025: Favourite Patterns (On Camera Tying Session With Phil)
- Session #12: Wednesday, April 16, 2024: Course Review and Open Q & A
Don’t miss out. This is the only time Phil and Brian will host this live educational event this year.
