John Collins

USA

John Collins

As a life long resident of New Jersey, I got into Trout fishing at about the age of five and fished for them using other methods before discovering Fly Fishing.

I was about in my mid-Twenties before I got hooked on the Long Rod and I have never looked back. In fact, I got into Fly Tying before I was a serious Fly Fisherman. Started out on my own, tying Eztes Eggs for Steelhead and soon graduated to imitating stream insects with the help of my Mentor and friend George Kolesar, who at the time was commercially tying for the shops in the Catskill region.

George taught me in the “Catskill tradition”, but with all the new materials out now, I’ve moved on to other methods in pursuit of the Salmonoids as well as traditional methods of tying. I’ve been a member of the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild for well over a decade and I still tie for them at the Fly Fishing Shows and have been for the past ten years.

I am now involved in Guiding here in NJ and teaching the art of Fly Tying, via the internet on www.riseformstudio.tv with the help of my buddy Michael McAuliffe. My motto is “Fly’s that Catch Fish, not just Fishermen”. And as it is in Fly Fishing, it is the same when it comes to Fly Tying, that you will always be learning something new for the rest of your life.

CONTACT DETAILS

eMail: flyjcfish100@msn.com

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