the fly dressers guild

Congratulations at the Ringwood Branch

From left to right J Dow, L Boshoff and J Dunning receive annual fly dressing prizes from Chairman Rob Norris. April 2008

The Flydressers' Guild is a non-profit organisation whose sole objective is to promote and cultivate the art of fly dressing. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in flytying.

We are a UK based organisation, but have over 450 overseas members, including a Branch in Tokyo, Japan and the Southern Appalachian Fly Tyers in the USA.

The Guild originates from the mid-1960's when a group of Hampshire flytyers, led by Don Haynes our founder, decided to form a Fly Tying Club. The Club's first official meeting was held at the Anglers Inn, Bishopstoke, Hampshire in October 1967.

Membership is currently £18 (UK Family), £15 (UK), £12 (UK retired) and £23 for overseas tiers.

Benefits of membership include:

Generous 10% discount scheme with our Trade Members.
Insurance scheme to £5,000,000.
Excellent full colour quarterly magazine (download an example PDF copy here).
Branch Network
Instruction and Advise
Competitions
Fly Swaps
Growing Online Community

Whether you are novice or expert we welcome your membership and currently have over 300 new members joining every year from all over the world. Joining couldn't be easier, we have an online shop with secure checkout. Just use the Membership and Shop menu to the left.