Fly Fishing Classes

Duranglers can help improve your fly fishing by opening new horizons. Whether it is new skills or new water, Duranglers will help you become a better, more well-rounded angler. There are few things as enjoyable as catching a large trout with a perfectly presented cast. When the trout falls for your intricately tied fly cast from a rod that you spent the long winter nights building, it makes everything even sweeter. Duranglers can help you make this picture a reality.

Fly Fishing Schools, Tying Clinics

Casting Instruction, & Private Lessons

Available – Call (970) 385-4081 – toll-free 888-347- 4346 for schedule!

Fly Fishing Clinic

Duranglers Fly Fishing Clinic is what any novice fisherperson needs to step into the sport of fly fishing. The class covers the feeding habits of trout, how flies imitate the bugs that trout eat, essential knots, rigging your rod, and how to cast a fly rod. The class is taught by Glenn Tinnin, a certified FFF Fly Casting Instructor and veteran guide. The cost is $100. Space is limited, so please call our shop at (970)385-4081 or email us to reserve a place.

Clinic dates for 2012 are: 4/21, 5/20, 6/16, 6/24, 7/7 and 7/22

Casting Lessons

These custom designed individually tailored lessons are a chance to learn the art of casting a fly rod. Our one-on-one lessons are designed to help you understand the intricacies of the cast. We cover up to six different casts and the skills involved to help you present the fly to the fish as efficiently and effectively as possible. Avoid the frustration and learn from Durangler’s patient, knowledgeable instructors on the banks of the Animas River.

Hour casting lesson/ 1 person ………………………$35.00

Hour casting lesson/ 2 people ………………………$50.00

Fly Tying Lessons

Offered during the winter and spring months, our tying lessons help you take the art of fly fishing to the next level. Tying your own flies is a great way to learn more about what is going on in a river and help you become a more successful fisherman. We offer both beginner and advanced tying classes where we tie a variety of nymph and dry fly patterns. Class size is limited.

Fly Fishing School

Our schools are sixteen hours of both classroom and on the river instruction. The schools cover everything a beginner to an intermediate fly fisher should know in order to have successful and fun days on the water. Glenn Tinnin is the head instructor. He has taught more than 50 fly fishing schools, is a guide with over 2000 documented days on the water, has tied flies professionally, and is a published writer and photographer. Learn the art of casting, entomology & fly selection, knots, stream & lake techniques, and much more. Contact us for more information.

Casting Clinics

Duranglers, in cooperation with some of the world’s finest casting instructors, offers casting clinics to help you perfect your cast. Our in depth instruction during an intensive clinic program will help you learn all the fundamentals of casting a fly rod. Small class sizes and lots of individual attention assure your success. No matter what your level of expertise, from beginner who has never held a fly rod to accomplished life-long anglers, these world-class instructors will help you lay a foundation in fly casting or put a little polish into your cast. We offer these casting clinics periodically throughout the summer based on interest and availability of these high demand instructors.