Our meeting on April 20,2026 will be our annual Fly Tiers Roundtable. Come join us for a night of camaraderie and conversation as we join some of the best tiers in the area as they demonstrate there skills. Learn a new technique and a pattern or two. If you bring your fly tying vice and tools you are welcome to sit with one of the tyers and tie along.
Pitkin Community Center 6:30-9pm
30 Greenfield Street
Wethersfield, CT 06109
Steve Babbit will be our speaker for the March meeting.
His program will be; “The Guides Guide to Hatches”
This April will be Steve's 50th year fly fishing and it has been a life long journey of learning and adventures to beautiful places.
I have used my many years on the water, 25 years as a guide throughout Connecticut, and time working in shops to hone my approach to the sport. My junior year of college I took an aquatic entomology class that began my love of bugs. I have used my 25 years of guiding to refine a complete approach to fishing hatches bottom to top. It has helped me to adapt to the seasonal changes as well as the current environmental situation changes we are seeing now. Welcome to a “guides guide to hatches”
Steve Babbit
Meeting December 15, 2025
Pitkin Community Center 6:30-9pm
30 Greenfield Street
Wethersfield, CT 06109
Christian Parisi
Owner/ President- The Local Fly Co.
www.localflyco.com
203-640-0901
Program- East meets West- East coast tactics and flies that work across the western Rockies and how to do a DIY trip on a budget. Chris has logged dozens of weeks logged in MT and CO and will share what he's done to do it all on a friendly budget and why east coast fishermen, like skiers, can have tremendous success out west.
Chris will be giving out 15% coupons to everyone who attends the program which can be used in store or online at www.localflyco.com.
Chris Parisi has been in the fishing industry for the last 23 years. A former shop manager, shop owner, and guide, Chris cut his teeth on the small streams of Connecticut and in Long Island Sound before opening his first tackle shop in Cape Cod, MA. Chris' new store, The Local Fly Company is finishing up its first year and has surprised many with how well stocked this small store is. Chris is guiding by foot and in his Upriver Boatworks Raft in 2026 in Connecticut and Massachusetts primarily on the Farmington, Naugatuck, and Salmon River in CT as well as the Swift and Green River in Massachusetts.
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