Some years ago, late 1970s, Mike Monroe came to Sacramento from the Bay Area to run the old Fly Hutch at El Camino and Fulton Avenues.
He was a protege of Andy Puyans so he could really tie nice flies. He had years of great fly tying classes which levitated the quality of tiers in Sacramento.
Rod Grey was a student of Mike Monroe's who had become an extremely good tier as well. I pursued Rod to teach classes at my shop.
Then we had Chris Mallory teach classes for us and I think he was a student of Mike's. He could tie you 12 flies that were 100% identical and smoken' good looking too.
Finally we had Alan Barnard working at our shop who was a world class artist, musician, photographer and an unbelievable fly tier too. Alan Barnard is one of those people who can do everything better than most of us.
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