The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

In anticipation of making it to Davis lake either before or after my wedding commitment on the 5th I am in the process of getting gear, especially flys together I will need. Not having fished lakes a lot I am very short of those kinds of flys like Jay Fair's famous "wiggle tail". I figured I would purchase a few to use as patterns for tying them myself. I found a web site site for Glenn and Jay Fair materials, flys etc and called their number. I first talked to Glenn, Jay's son and he was extremely helpful and friendly. He then handed the phone to his Dad Jay and we had a wonderful conversation as well! I told him I felt very honored to have the opportunity to talk to a legend in fly fishing like Jay Fair! He brushed that off and told me stories about him starting to fly fish at the age of about 10. In his early days he would fish days upon days, probably averaging over 100 days a year. He just turned 90 this last week! He asked me if I had time to talk and then took all kinds of time sharing more stories with me including how he came up with his flys and how he fishes them. What an amazing fellow and his son is a chip off the old block. Their web site is very simple and ordering from them is very simple old school. I told him in general what I wanted and he said he would put together an order for me with samples of flies and materials for tying and then just mail it to me and I would in turn use a self addressed envelope to write them a check!! Talk about old school and trust! I am sure you would not find any other business on the intenet that operates that way. I received my order yesterdat with wonderful samples of the flys and materials. In it there was also a hand drawn map of Davis Lake with lots of notes about fishing areas on the west side of the lake that Glenn put together! Holy cow! I look forward to talking to Glenn and possibly Jay today thanking them for the order and their incredible customer service.