Bob:

About 6 months ago Wayne Luallen was giving a class on tying Atlantic Salmon flies near his home in Visalia Calif. A group of us met with him to participate and I decided it would be a good idea to video tape the session as we went along. The idea was good but trying to pay attention to the class, taking notes, observing the minute details and video taping at the same time turned out to be a major failure. At the end of the class we had three video tapes recorded, basically 6 hours of garbage. None the less we had learned from this experience that a recording session would have to be just that a recording session and nothing else. Wayne and I talked over the phone a few times and we both agreed that it would be benificial to attemp to video tape the tying of an Atlantic Salmon pattern so that others might benifit from such an instructional tape. As well we would benifit from comments and ideas that we expect to receive in response, pertaining to new or different techniques in both filming and tying. We all have so much to learn whether expert or novice.

A short time after our phone call I made a trip to Waynes home where Wayne, myself, Larry Goates, and Darwin Atkin all got together to share ideas and discuss how we were going to put this thing together. We played with camera. lighting, backgrounds etc... Months went by until this last weekend when we all got together again to actually do the recording session.

We all agreed that the pattern known as the Baron would be a good fly to tie because it incorperates many of the techniques necessary in tying many of the Atlantic Salmon patterns. Donna, Wayne's wife help put together some drawings that we would be using to demonstrate some of the more critical points in the tying process, where we felt it would be difficult to capture on the film. She did an excellent job and deserves a lot of cedit.

The film is now finished, we kept the time down to less than two hours (i.e., one tape) as we had set out to do. At this time I would like to mention that this by no way is a professional product, we have done the best we could under the circumstances, although we are fairly happy with the end results. The film is available to anyone who wishes to purchase it at the cost of a tape, the reproduction. and shipping (approximately $20.00 plus postage). To order a a copy send your request to Wayne Luallen.

Please keep in mind that no profit is to be made on this film! We are selling it at our cost, feel free to make copies of the film for your friends as long as you do so at your cost too. We hope that you enjoy the film and learn some new techniques from it. Hopefully this film will inspire some of you out there to do the same, it is a lot of work but we had a lot of fun doing it as well. Please send your comments to us so we may learn too. Wayne has presented his present methods for tying this particular fly at this time. He would like you to understand that there is no absolute correct method for tying a fly. If you know some techniques that are better than those presented continue to use them, but PLEASE SHARE THEM WITH US TOO.

Sincerely,

Scott Stisser