What do you get when you put Gary Borger, George Daniel, Mac Brown, Jeff Currier, Pat Dorsey, Alice Owsley, Tim Cammisa, Sheila Hassan and around a hundred more internationally recognized fly fishers, fly tiers, instructors and tackle inventors into a convention facility?

It’s called the Fly Fishing Show, a six venue nationwide cavalcade of all things fly fishing.

The 2026 edition of the annual Fly Fishing Show opens the season in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Jan. 16-18 and concludes March 14-15 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

Between Marlborough and Lancaster, the Fly Fishing Show will bring a cornucopia of how-to-do-it classes, seminars, demonstrations, rods, reels, fly tying materials, terminal tackle, wading gear and vacation destinations to Edison, New Jersey, Jan. 23-25; Denver, Colorado, February 6-8; Seattle/Bellevue, Washington, Feb. 14-15; and Pleasanton, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, February 27-March 1. 

The Fly Fishing Show is the one event that makes fly fishing the family sport that it is.  

Manufacturers, sales representatives and retail dealers will fill each show facility with all that’s new for ’26 including rods – which show attendees are invited to test in a casting pond – to fresh and saltwater reels designed for everything from a mid-America farm pond to a mountain stream;  to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.  

Show visitors have the opportunity to flex every rod and twirl almost every reel made.  There is little need to buy unseen tackle or gear from a catalog or online.  At the Fly Fishing Show, attendees can try it on and decide whether they need a Large or Extra Large vest, rain jacket, waders, or wading boots.  Is one rod too soft for you?  Is another rod a little too stiff?  Or is the third one just right?