July 8th, at Manual’s Tavern at 7 PM •
Speaker: Captain David Edens
Topic: Fishing Flood Tides
Bio: Spending his early years in the mountains of North Carolina, Capt. Dave has been fly fishing and tying flies for over 50 years. When he began tying, he would “pluck” the family dog and cat for fur for streamers and rob his Mom’s sewing box for thread. His first fly caught fish was a wild rainbow trout, caught on a variant of a Mickey Finn he had tied with fur from the family pets. He caught it from a stream near Brevard, NC, to which he had ridden his bike. Ala Opey, in the “Andy Griffith Show.”
Since those early years, Capt. Dave has fly fished for trout, steelhead, stripers, salmon, false albacore, bonefish, permit, tarpon, red fish, triple tail, sea trout, bream, carp, bass, and anything else that would take a fly from Alaska to the Honduras, from Vermont to California and all of the states in between.
After being “downsized” during the Great Recession, he realized one of the few things he did well was fly fishing and teaching fly fishing. He and his wife were married in St. Simons over 40 years before, and they had owned a condo there since 2000. After being downsized, he told his wife he was spending the summer at the beach. He hooked his HPX-V to his truck and went to SSI. His family followed that fall, and the rest is history.
He has been guiding there since late 2009. He is an Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guide. He is a Fly Fishers International Certified Casting Instructor and a member of the FFI Professional Guides Association. He has been building custom fly, spinning, and casting rods for over 20 years under Blue Ridge Rods and has been certified by the Rod Guild as a Professional Rod Builder. Capt. Dave is also a member of the Atlanta Fly Fishing Club!
Capt. David Edens is the owner of Fly Cast Charters and Outfitters, LLC in St. Simons, GA. The tag line of the charter service is “Hunting Fish in the Marshes of Glynn.” He specializes in sight fishing for red fish, and is available for fly and light tackle charters for all the other species around St. Simons Island, Sapelo Island, Sea Island, Cumberland Island, and Jekyll Island, GA.
