Todd's one day and two day Stillwater Fly Fishing courses are packed full of invaluable information that will improve your overall fly fishing skills and knowledge of stillwater fishing. You'll learn a series of highly-effective, floating and sinking-line techniques that will significantly improve your ability to hook and land greater numbers of trout. You will also learn about the importance of colour, ultraviolet vision and lighting, as well as how they effect fly pattern selection. Your time spent in the classroom will allow you to approach your favorite stillwaters with a whole new perspective and a greater level of confidence.
Todd is a stillwater angling specialist and writer and is active in the world of competitive fly-fishing. His teams have won the Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament on four occasions and consistently finish within the top three positions. At the Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships he won the individual gold medal in 2005, the individual bronze medal in 2009 and 2010, as well as four team gold medals and a team bronze medal over the past six years. His teams also won the gold medal at the 2011 B.C. Loch-Style Fly Fishing Championships and the team gold medal at the 2011 America Cup International Fly Fishing Championships. He has served as a member of the Canadian National Fly Fishing Team a total of nine times, and competed at the America Cup, North American, European, Commonwealth, and World Fly Fishing Championships. Through his courses he reveals some of the strategies and techniques that have helped to make him one of the highest ranked, competitive fly fishermen in Canadian history.
The "Advanced Stillwater Strategies" course will cover and address the following topics:
• Understanding and reacting to “The Take”
• The importance of colour and lighting, and how this relates to fly patterns selection
• Floating-line techniques and strategies
• Sinking-line techniques and strategies
• Loch-style fly-fishing techniques (how to effectively cover more water and fish)
• Fly-tying demonstration and the theory behind several of Todd’s favourite stillwater patterns
Advanced Stillwater Strategies,
presented by Todd Oishi