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The Canadian Tube Fly Company
CTFC Pro Staff
| John Nagy has guided in Alaska and fly fished extensively in the Western and Eastern United States as well as British Columbia. For the last 20 years he has guided on many of Lake Erie’s tributary streams for steelhead and has written numerous articles on the unique style of fly fishing often needed to catch these elusive and sometimes finicky fish. More............ |
John Nagy
Bob Kenly
John Anderson
Stuart Anderson
Juri Shumakov (2006)
Steve Silverio
| Anyone who has ever dealt with Bob knows what a gentleman he is. His website, Nordic Way Tube Flies has served thousands of tyers over the years as a place for information and inspiration. Known in the tube fly world as the "King of Epoxy", Bob is the type that sees a new material or design and creates fly patterns that are completely unique. Besides working closely with us on several ideas and patterns, Bob teamed up with Mark Mandell for "Tube Flies Two: Evolution". The book continues to spread the word about the versatility of tube flies and the possibilities that come about binging tube tyers from around the world together. |
| John has been with the CTFC since the start. Not only an accomplished tyer and guide, he is also our resident (winter) "guru" of all things salt water. He has been the developer and test pilot of most of our pacific salmon flies. He takes the realistic view of shrimp, prawn, and bait fish and has the uncanny ability of making patterns that look and swim fantastic in the water. We couldn't help but put our favourite "after fishing" snapshot up for John! |
| Though our friend Juri left this world too early, he has been, and continues to be an inspiration behind many of our patterns and products. For those not familiar with Juri's work, he revolutionized the industry with his Long Range, Skittle, Weight Forward, Summer Arrow, and Pipette tube designs. He took the "basic" bottle tube and was the first to address the issue of hook hang down. Juri was the first to design slotted metal tubes that actually served as the body of the fly, the actual pattern is tied on the inside liner tube. Juri was an accomplished professional in the fly tying world. |
| Steve has been tying for longer than most people would like to admit. If you have ever had the pleasure of speaking with Steve, you'll know what true passion for a sport and art is. There is never a moment when Steve is not dreaming up a way to create a new pattern using unusual methods and materials. Steve is truly an "outside the box" thinker when it comes to brainstorming about new directions in tube tying. Steve is currently on the Regal Vise development team and is the originator of Polar Pony Hair. |
| The Canadian Tube Fly Company 6816 11 Ave Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA T6K 3J5 canadiantubeflies@shaw.ca 1-800-572-7493 |
| Michael Farnham of Washington D.C joins us on our pro staff. Michael has fished extensively on most fresh and salt waters in his region, and probably would fish parking lots with standing water on it if he thought there were fish there. The area of the country Michael is from is not noted for fly fishing and in efforts to help fly fishing take its place in community he persisted in requests from outdoors writers to “ just go fly fishing with me once” and if it doesn’t meet your satisfaction I promise to leave you alone. That one outing has lead Michael in his career to have article after article published highlighting as one outdoor once wrote, Michael is guilty of a special wizardry with the fly rod that most other conventional tackles users will never see. More............ |
Michael Farnham
| Joe says it best himself...."After putting 30 long years in a steel mill, I feel I’m slightly qualified to know what it is to work for a living. Had I worked in a Fly shop all my life, I would feel like I never worked at all. "The Contented Angler" gives me something to do besides collecting my pension. Helping others with free fly tying and fly casting lessons is a rare opportunity to do something good. When you're gone, you won't be remembered for what a good fisherman you were. You will, hopefully, be remembered for being a good person. That's the best we can ask for." We couldn't agree more Joe!!!! |
Joe Gablick
| Owner and operator of both Adipos Flytying and The Canadian Tube Fly Company, Stuart has had the pleasure of tying and fly fishing for over twenty seasons. Stuart decided several years ago (along with his family) to turn his hobby and passion into a living. One that would provide top quality flies and fly tying products to customers world wide. He felt that tube flies were tremendously underrepresented in North America and there was a market for products that would help steelheaders and fly-fishermen in general, find a central location to order all things tube flies. |