From The Fly Fishing Show:
From rods to reels, boots to personal watercraft, everything new for 2025 will be on display starting Friday morning (2/21) when the 23rd annual Denver Fly Fishing Show opens the season at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center.
Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri.; 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sat; and 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sun. Fly Fishing Show® admission is $20 for one day, $35 for two days and $45 for three. Children under age 5 are free as are Boy and Girl Scouts under age 16 in uniform. Children 6-12 are $5. Active military with an ID are $10.
Nearly $100,000 in door prizes will be awarded including a Golden Dorado trip for two by Nervous Waters, value $9,500; a week at Alaska Trophy Adventures Lodge in King Salmon, Alaska, value $7,500; a week at Rio Manso Lodge in Northern Patagonia, value $7,000; Belize River Lodge, Belize for two anglers, value $6,400; a week at Chile Trout, value $6,190; and three days at Fish Partner Lodge, Iceland, value $6,375; Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures, $1,500 credit on any trip.
A complete list of door prizes is on The Fly Fishing Show website.
The Fly Fishing Show will include 31 classes with experts. Class registration is $95 except for a day-long advanced casting class jointly conducted by Dr. Gary Borger and Mac Brown a day before the show opening, Thurs., Feb. 20. Tuition for the Borger/Brown class is $625.
Among the experts’ classes are The Perfect Cast with Borger, Fly Fishing Tailwaters with Pat Dorsey, Practical Nymphing with Ed Engle, Next Level Stillwater Techniques with Phil Rowley, Next Level Stillwater Techniques with Phil Rowley, and Women’s 101 Fly Casting with Whitney Gould.
There are 37 free seminars, 92 Destination Theatre and 18 Adventure Theater presentations including The Fabled Alagnak River of Bristol Bay, Alaska; Iceland – A Bucket List Destination; The Amazon’s Huge Peacock Bass; Fly Fishing the Yucatan; Fly Fishing Greenland; and Nunavik and Labrador: Fly Fishing in the Untamed Far North.
For all films, classes with experts, seminars, door prizes, and demonstrations visit flyfishingshow.com/denver-co/ or phone (814) 443-3638.
