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Deep In Backing Pro Staff Fly Tier's
Jocelin LeBlanc
Baie Des Homards, Québec Jocelin is a well known figure in Eastern Canada & Quebec Fly fishing communities. A full time river guide on Quebec North Shore Region, an fly fishing instructor Drainage/Rivers: The upper Aux Outardes River, Trinité, Pentecôte and Aux Rochers RiverSpecies: Atlantic Salmon, Northern Pike, Lake Trout, Sea Run Brook Trout, Brook Trout and Lake Whitefish I learned to tie flies at the of 17 years old in a small NB town called Edmundston he and a couple of friends started tying on a kitchen tables, it wasn't long after that fly tying became a passion. 
According to Jocelin he maintains that he popularized such notable flies as the Rivière Verte, the Sparkle Whore, Pink Flasher (Red Eyes Smelt), North Shore Smelt, Trinity Shadow and the Green Grey some of those are well known and they are all very productive flies.
Jocelin has been influenced by such tiers from Luc Carrier, Marc Madore, Paul C Marriner, Faruk Eckich, Paul LeBlanc and Vidar Numme, being a believer in simple flies tied with easy to find tying material to substitute hard to use or find material with synthetics or hair.
Favorite Fly Juan Ramirez
Colorado Springs
Colorado Juan grew up in Northern New Mexico fishing the small streams and creeks of the Sangre De Cristos. In 1997, a switch to fly-fishing was made and he has never looked back. Over the years, he has guided on the Cimarron River in New Mexico as well as the South Platte River in Colorado.
Juan received his first tying kit when
he was 15. After a few disastrous “creations”, it was put away for
a few years. In college at Durango, CO the kit was opened and a new
appreciation for the globs of fur, feathers, floss and thread was
created. Now after 15 years of tying Juan is an accomplished fly
tier. Currently a part time guide for Anglers Covey and a fly
tying instructor for Ghillies Fly Shop in Colorado Springs, there
are not many seconds that pass without the thought of fishing or
tying that go by. Juan runs a bog about fly tying and fly fishing
at hopperjuan.blogspot.com. Got Hoppers?
Dai
Jones
Dai is a well known figure in Europeam Fly fishing communities. Started fishing at the age of six, on the Afon Twrch. When I was a bit older my Dad started taking me sea fishing off the Mumbles pier. At the age of 9, i started fly tying and fishing for sewin on the River Tawe. in those days the river was just full of fish sewin huge runs it was an awesome river and you never though about catching 30/ 40 sewin in the day spinning and fly fishing, you would also catch salmon / bass and twait shad by the bin full, how the days have changed.
Marc Madore
Blackville, New
Brunswick Marc is a well known figure in Eastern Canada & Quebec Fly fishing communities and a river guide on the Miramichi watershed. Drainage/Rivers: The Miramichi river Marc maintains he is responsible for popularizing the Chenille Bugs in the Miramichi system. This was not an easy task, but he finally got an authority on flies for the Miramichi to admit that they fish well; however, the same person refuses to stock the Chenille Bugs because they are not tied with original material. “There are problems in tying the Chenille Bugs. The main ones are that you have to double the bodies and tie in the hackle by the butt rather than the tip, or the hackle can break”, says Marc. “I’ve done a lot of study on the Atlantic salmon. I am totally focused on it and I gave up all other fishing so I can fish only Atlantic salmon. I gave it all up so I can learn what makes the salmon tick. One of the things I learned is that, contrary to popular belief, the Atlantic salmon eats bugs when it enters the fresh water rivers”, says Marc.
According to Marc we are fishing flies that are way to big. The smaller the fly the more fish he gets. There are reasons for this. Marc believes that flies should have a lot more action to them than the flies we produced up to 1996. The whole world of fly tying can be regenerated if we wanted it to. If we take a look at the history of some of the older flies, and who tied them and where they were fished, we could get some of it back. If we look at the “Jock Scott” and the other very classic flies for example. Where were they made and where were they fished? They were fished over thousands of fish, but the Gillies at the time could not fish, nor afford to fish these places. Those flies were designed for fishing under adverse conditions. Marc’s favorite feather wing fly is the Canadian Black Dose while his favorite hair wing flies have to be a green butt “Black Bear” and a slightly modified “Undertaker”.
“Canadian Black Dose” tied by R. Marc MadoreMarc feels that it is just as much of an art to tie the fully dressed feather pattern flies by using substitute material. It doesn’t cost an arm, or a leg, for material and the substitute material can look just as beautiful. Marc has been teaching a lot of people the art of fly tying and when he sends his students away at the end of the course he tells them to go and practice what they were taught. Many of his students have come back and told him that when they converted the technique and precision he taught them to tie the feather wing flies into tying their hair wings they now tie a hair wing fly that is twice the fly they tied previously.
Robert Marc Madore April 2005
In the early 1980’s Marc tied a fly that he was very
proud of, so he took it to show Cliff Brown, an older and experienced fly
Tyer in Oromocto, New Brunswick. Cliff examined the fly carefully and said,
“Marc, it’s a good fly, but remember one thing. Continue tying flies as you
are, but keep that fly and in five years take another look at it.” Marc did
as he was told and in 1985 when he looked at the fly again it was totally
different. After he started tying the feather wing patterns in 1981, his
hair wing flies improved tremendously because of the precision and
techniques he had to master in order to tie quality feather wing flies.
Favorite Tying and Fishing Hair Wings “Picasse” tied by Marc Madore
In 1996 he caught his largest Atlantic salmon at the Blackville Pool beside Doctor’s Island. The magnificent fish, which weighed in at 28 pounds, was caught on a fly called “Picasse” tied on a #4 hook. Favorite Origination A modified version of a “Carter’s Bug”, which Jerome Molloy and Bryant Freeman (Eskape Anglers) got him interested in tying. It’s not an attractive looking fly, but fishes well. Marc, who is also a registered New Brunswick Guide, takes great pride in helping guests who come to the Miramichi to capture the elusive Atlantic salmon. He is committed to protecting the integrity of the guide and can be very vocal if he feels that guides are not living up to the expectations of what they are required to do to insure that their guests are properly cared for. Over the years he has met a lot of guides, some good, some not so good. There are the ones who will say, “This is the only way we do it”, even if they are wrong. Marc is the kind of guy that believes in what is right and he is the first to tell them that this is not the way we do it. It has to be done right, or don’t do it at all.
The Savieur for the fall fishing designed in 2009 Olive Madorabou Assassin
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