Cast your line for fly fishing show in Marlborough

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The Fly Fishing Show will take place at the Royal Plaza Trade Center from Jan. 17 to 19. 

The Fly Fishing Show will take place at the Royal Plaza Trade Center from Jan. 17 to 19. 

MARLBOROUGH – The newest fly rods and reels, boots, waders, personal watercraft and everything in between will be on display for the first time at the Marlborough Fly Fishing Show, Jan. 17-19 at the Royal Plaza Trade Center, 181 Boston Post Road West.

Hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday; and 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

Admission is $18 for one day, $28 for two days and $38 for three days. 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.

Parking is free.

There will be 26 classes with the experts, including a daylong advanced fly casting class with Mac Brown and Christopher Rownes on Jan. 16 – the day before the show opens – teaching practical and comprehensive techniques. Registration for the eight-hour class is $695. All of the other classes with experts are 2-1/2 hours at $95, which includes admission to the show that day.

Standard classes include “Perfecting Drift and Presentation” with Brown; “Beyond the Basics, Taking Your Casting to the Next Level” with Sheila Hassan; “Fundamentals of Euro Nymphing” with Jason Randall; “Stillwater Essentials” with Phil Rowley; “Tenkara Class: The Whole Shabang!” with Karin Miller; “Practical Nymphing” with Ed Engle; “Knots & Rigging for Trout” with Tim Flagler; “Women-Only Casting” with Hassan; and “Reading Beaches to Enable Successful Strategies and Tactics, Day or Night” with Alan Caolo.

The show will have 27 free seminars, including Randall’s “Where Trout Are;” Jeff Currier’s “Introduction to Saltwater Fly Fishing;” Ed Lombardo’s “Fishing the Dry Fly on Some of New England’s Best Trout Streams;” “Pike on the Fly” with Rowley; “Fishing Under the Hatch” with Culton; “Fly Fishing Maine” with Bob Mallard; “Fly Fishing Estuaries” with Caolo; and “What Trout See and Why It Matters” with Randall.

Nearly $100,000 in door prizes will be awarded, including SET Fly Fishing in Argentina for Golden Dorado, value $7,500; 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.

Among the 76 Destination Theater presentations are “Bonefish in Bahamas Paradise,” “Monster Brookies at Labrador Igloo Lake,” “Fly Fishing for Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Char and Grayling on Alaska’s Kanektok River,”” Fly Fishing the Androscoggin and Merrimack Rivers of New Hampshire,” “Nunavik and Labrador: Fly Fishing in the Untamed Far North,” and “Storied Waters of Northern Patagonia.”

Attendees can cast their votes for the 2025 Fly Fishing Show consumer choice awards. There are 41 categories of new fly-fishing products in the competition with awards to be made jointly by the Fly Fishing Show, Fly Fusion Magazine and Fly Fishing Journeys.

The world premiere of the two-hour 2025 International Fly Fishing Film Festival is Friday, Jan. 17, at 6:30 p.m. 

All classes, programs, seminars, and door prizes are listed on the Fly Fishing Show website, www.flyfishingshow.com/marlborough-ma/ or call 814-443-3638.

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