Meet Our Pro Tyers
Paul Beel
Terre Haute, IN
Tying style: Paul lead our Pro Tyer team. He specializes in modern streamers for smallmouth and largemouth bass and trout. Ties classic Michigan dry flies for trout and flies for bluegill.
Brandon Bailes
Athens, GA
Tying style: Brandon specializes in 2 areas - deerhair bass bugs and downsized small water flies (mostly streamers and deerhair bugs).
John Collins
Stewartsville NJ
Tying style: Trout, caddis nymphs and parachute dry flies. Plus sculpins and streamers that utilize rabbit strips. For steelhead: bright colored nymphs and Intruder style swinging flies.
John and Katie Demuth
Kingsport, TN
Tying style: John and Katie's favorite flies to tie are Caddis, Stimulator, parachutes, soft-hackle nymphs and quill bodied flies.
Scott Fisher
Washington, NJ
Tying style: Scott is most passionate about Catskill style dry flies and historic flies. He is also a well-rounded tyer, tying wet flies, nymphs, various style dry flies, and more.
Joe Jackson
Martinsville, IN
Tying style: Joe is best known for his Deerhair bassbugs, and elaborate deerhair art.
Braden Miller
Glen Allen, Virginia
Tying style: Braden’s favorite flies to tie include Blane Chocklett’s Game Changers, deer hair poppers, Bob Popovics Beast Fleyes, and a variety of streamers.
Jeff Rowley
Amarillo, TX
Tying style: Jeff is best known for his deer hair and resin work. Residing in the Texas panhandle, he fishes mostly for largemouth bass.
John Satkowski
Toledo, OH
Tying style: Streamers are his favorite to tie and fish, but he tries to be as versatile as possible. He also enjoys tying and creating topwater/waker type hybrid patterns.
Paul "Paulie" Shurtleff
Springville, UT
Tying style: Paul specializes in tying trout flies (dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, streamers and attractors with an emphasis in tying dry flies) but also ties flies for pike and bass as well.
Brian Smith
Stanley, VA
Tying style: Brian specializes in realistic flies, but enjoys tying just about everything that you can think of.
Luke Stacy
Virginia Beach, VA
Tying style: Luke’s favorite flies to tie are “hair and hackle” dry flies including stimulators, elk hair caddis and other various caddis/stonefly imitations using different materials
Erik Svend Svendsen
Provo, UT
Tying style: Erik mainly ties for trout, but he really likes tying new patterns. He has a goal of #tyingoneflyaday where every day he tries to tie a fly pattern he never tried before.
Steve Yewchuck
Beacon, NY
Tying style: Steve loves tying anything from midges to large rodents. His specialty is designing and tying big flies for predator fish. But he also enjoys creating flies for smaller species, especially trout.
Nathan Wight
Durham, ME
Tying style: Although he ties a lot of Euro nymph flies, Nathan’s real passion is for large predator streamers and top water flies.