Tim Trexler
I began flyfishing and flytying at age 12, after winning a cheap bamboo fly rod at a church festival. Soon after that, a friend of my father gave me a box of assorted flytying materials and a Herter's vise. There was no one in my family to teach me, and very few fly fishermen in the area to learn from. There were even fewer flytyers around! Progress was very slow in both departments. My entire education in these arts came exclusively from magazines, catalogues and books.
Years went by with only the Herter's catalogue and Noll's Guide to Trout Flies to learn from. Somewhere in the early 70's I discovered the wealth of flyfishing literature available to me. I would beg and borrow what I couldn't afford to buy, accumulating as much information as I could on tying and fishing methods, patterns and techniques.
In more recent years, I have had the opportunity to attend many flyfishing and flytying shows, where I feel that my education has grown exponentially.
I began tying full-dressed Atlantic salmon flies in November of 2000, and I must have found my niche in the world of flytying. I was the 2001 Irish Open Flytying Championship's overall champion, and in the 2002 FQSA World Salmon Flytying Championship, my creation "Colors of Water" won a gold medal, and I received a silver medal for the compulsory pattern, the Black Dose. These honors were quite a surprise to me, as I am relatively new to the world of salmon flies!
I try to give something back to this wonderful art by volunteering at the Rivers Conservation & Fly Fishing Youth Camp. The camp is held each June in Boiling Springs, PA and is hosted by the Cumberland Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited
Thanks,
Tim Trexler
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