Fly Tying Travel with Dave Allison at the East Idaho Fly Tying Expo(Traveled #41)
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Sponsors: Yellowstone Teton Territory - Visit Idaho
Some fly tying skills come quickly. Others only show up after thousands of flies, years behind the vise, and a lot of mistakes along the way. Proportions, thread control, and material handling are things you really can't shortcut.
In this episode, I sat down with Dave Allison to talk about fly tying travel, the expo circuit across the West, and the patterns he loves tying when people sit down across the table. We also dug into the East Idaho Fly Tying Expo, one of the best tying events in the country.
Dave shared some great insights into dry flies, Quigley patterns, Wally Wings, the Found Link, and the small tricks that make a big difference when you're tying or fishing these flies.
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| 0:00.0 | Some skills are learned quickly, others are built over years. |
| 0:06.0 | You can't rush proportions, you can't shortcut material control, and you can't fake the kind of understanding that only comes from tying thousands of flies one after another. |
| 0:16.0 | Today's guest has tied at shows all over the west from Albany to East Idaho to Bellevue, where he'll sit down and tie |
| 0:22.6 | 50 flies a day, give most of them away, and spend as much time as he can teaching proportions, |
| 0:29.3 | thread control, and everything you need to tie flies. This is the traveled podcast series where we |
| 0:34.4 | bring you to the best places to travel to and fish in the West and the |
| 0:38.3 | stories of how the region became what it is today. Dave Allison is here and he's going to be |
| 0:44.0 | talking about the East Idaho Fly Fishing Expo that's coming up here. We're going to find out what he's |
| 0:49.9 | going to be tying there, including some of the Wally Wing patterns. We're going to talk about Quigley's film critic and the hackle stacker. |
| 0:58.0 | Some of his influences there. |
| 0:59.4 | We're going to find out why he modified the hackle stacker and how he made it unique. |
| 1:06.9 | We're going to talk about the difference between tying and fishing different flies. He focuses on dry flies. |
| 1:12.8 | We're definitely going to get into that conversation today. We're going to find out about Kelly Gallup's |
| 1:17.0 | found link pattern and why this has become a confidence pattern for Dave. Lots of good stuff, |
| 1:22.8 | including some of his influences, going back to Davy McVale, the Norvice and Norm Norlander. This is going to be a good one. I want to let you know that this episode is presented by Visit Idaho and Yellowstone-Teton Territory, home to some of the most diverse and wild trout waters in the West. All right, let's get going. Here we go. Dave Allison. |
| 1:46.2 | How are you doing, Dave? |
| 1:48.0 | I'm doing good, Dave. How are you? |
| 1:51.3 | Not too bad. Not too bad. I'm glad we were finally able to put this together. |
| 1:55.0 | It's been many years. It feels like I think the first time I saw you was at the Albany Flight Tying Expo like many years ago and we chatted. I think I did a little video or something, but we talked about the podcast and now you're |
| 2:04.2 | getting ready to, I think, head out to the East Idaho Flight Tying Expo and all that. |
| 2:09.4 | But yeah, it's been a little while, right? |
| 2:10.5 | Do you remember that first year when we connected? |
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