Daniel Bolduc

Hello, my name is Daniel Bolduc. I was born in 1961 and I am from the Province of Quebec, Canada. I am tying flies since 1984 and since then, my passion did not stop increasing. The first feather wing salmon fly I have seen was tied by Paul Bean (deceased in 2001), a well known and world-wide fly tyer. He created salmon flies like the First Lady Rosalynn, the Princess Diana and the Redford for the actor Robert Redford. I had those flies in my mind until 1997 when I bought the book Flies for Atlantic salmon by Dick Stewart and Farrow Allen. When I opened the first pages of the book, I saw 8 beautiful classics featherwing salmon flies ties by Ron Allcott. I cannot say I much time I looked at these flies.., but this was what triggered off my fly tying career. It also gave me the challenge of tying such of Salmon flies and seeing my creation on my vise. Three years later, in 2000, I send some flies to the Quebec Atlantic Salmon Federation ( FQSA) contest and won a Gold medal in the Featherwing compulsory category and a Silver medal in the creation category. In 2001, I entered again and won two more medals and was recognized as a Master Tier by the FQSA. Again in 2001 ,I entered the "Irish Open Flytying Championships" and won a gold medal with the famous Irish salmon fly...the "Fiery Brown" which is an experience I never forgot to this happy day. These medals are certainly a good personal accomplishment but my real goal is to be able to continue to contemplate all flies tied by my fellow tiers and especially the friendship I developed among all my friend's fly tiers.