$100,000 in Door Prizes

The newest fly rods and reels, boots, waders, personal watercraft and everything in between will be on display for the first time at the Edison Fly Fishing Show, January 24-26 at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, 97 Sunfield Ave.

Hours are 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday; and 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Fly Fishing Show admission is $20 for one day, $35 for two days and $45 for three days. Children under age 5 are free as are Boy and Girl Scouts under age 16 in uniform. Children 6-12 are $5. Active military with an ID are $10. Parking is free.

There will be 35 Classes With the Experts including a day-long Advanced Fly Casting Class with Mac Brown and Dr. Gary Borger on Jan. 23 – the day before the show opens – teaching practical and comprehensive techniques. Registration for the 8-hour class is premium priced at $625. All of the other classes with experts are 2-1/2 hours at $95 which includes admission to the show that day.

Standard classes include: Casting Strategies with Gary Borger; Women Only Casting with Sheila Hassan; Practical Nymphing with Ed Engle; Stillwater Strategies and Tactics for Eastern Stillwater with Phil Rowley; Tying Euro Nymphs and Other Competition Favorites with Tim Cammisa; and The Ultimate Saltwater Fly Fishing Clinic with Capt. Bruce Chard. Other classes are Increase Your Distance with Mac Brown; Fly Fisher’s Evolution with George Daniel; Beyond Cast & Strip: Presentation Flies for Stripers with Steve Culton; Reading the Waters with Alice Owsley; and Mastering Small Waters: Advanced Methods with Frank Burr.

 

 

Nearly $100,000 in door prizes will be awarded including SET Fly Fishing in Argentina for Golden Dorado, value $7,500; Golden Dorado trip for two by Nervous Waters, value $9,500; a week at Alaska Trophy Adventures Lodge in King Salmon, Alaska, value $7,500; a week at Rio Manso Lodge in Northern Patagonia, value $7,000; Belize River Lodge, Belize for two anglers, value $6,400; a week at Chile Trout, value $6,190; and three days at Fish Partner Lodge, Iceland, value $6,375; Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures, $1,500 credit on any trip.

The show will have 52 free seminars including Finding Small Stream Nirvana,
What Trout Like to Eat and Flies to Feed Them, Going Micro: the Benefits of Spanish Style Euro Nymphing Leaders, New Jersey’s Striped Bass, Ultralight Fly Fishing Finding and Catching Lake Ontario Steelhead.

On Saturday (1/25) the American Museum of Fly Fishing will posthumously honour the late master fly tier Bob Popovics with the 2025 Izaak Walton Award during the show. The ceremony is scheduled from 5-6 p.m. and will feature a tribute film and guest speakers. Popovics, hailed by Lefty Kreh as “the greatest fly tier of all time,” was an “extraordinary innovator of saltwater flies whose designs inspired generations,” said museum officials.

Among the approximately 120 continuous Destination and Adventure Theater presentations are Fly Fishing the Cumberland Valley, Fly Fishing Colorado’s Best Trout Streams, Big Land Fishing Lodge – Labrador, Canada: Atlantic Salmon and Trout, Fly Fishing New Hampshire, and Storied Waters of Northern Patagonia.

Attendees can cast their votes for the 2025 Consumer Choice Awards. There are 41 categories of new fly fishing products in the competition with awards to be made jointly by the Fly Fishing Show, Fly Fusion Magazine, and Fly Fishing Journeys.

There are 21 fly-casting demonstrations including those by Jeff Currier, Sheila Hassan, Gary Borger, Alice Owsley; Mac Brown, Andy Mill, and Christopher Rownes. Fly Fishers International (FFI) hosts the free Fly Fishing Learning Center with fly tying, casting instruction and other fly fishing information. The show offers continuous fly tying demonstrations plus featured fly tiers Pat Dorsey, Philip Rowley, Ed Engle, Tim Cammisa, Tim Flagler, and Thomas Baltz. The northeastern premiere of the two hour 2025 International Fly Fishing Film Festival is Fri. (1/24) at 6:30. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Among the festival films are Native Range – Native cutthroat trout in Utah; Fishing Diaries – Giant Trevally in the Seychelles; Silent Spotter – A deaf and mute guide in Xcalak, Mexico; Time Will Tell – Paul Puckett’s impact on the fly fishing world; Above the Clouds – Five friends on a journey into Colorado’s alpine; New Beginnings – Casa Mar and the legends Chico Fernandez and Dan Blanton; and Legacy – The life and story of Cathy and Barry Beck.

All classes, programs, seminars, and door prizes are listed on the Fly Fishing Show website, https://flyfishingshow.com/edison-nj/ or phone +1 (814) 443-3638.