MIDDLETOWN—For decades, the Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County (CCEOC) has been holding a fly-tying workshop as part of its 4-H program. Some of the current teachers learned how to make flies at the program decades ago and have come back to teach, said Vanessa Merrill, 4-H community educator with CCEOC. The students learn to make a new fly each week, with each class building on the next with the projects getting progressively more complicated each week. The program is open to the public and lasts five weeks.
A close up of a fishing fly being made at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County's 4-H fly-tying program at Gander Mountain in Middletown on Jan. 7, 2016. Holly Kellum/Epoch Times
