ATLANTA, GA – The 2023 edition of The Fly Fishing Show rolls into the Gas South Convention Center, Duluth, Feb. 3-5 with everything for the fly-fishing angler from new products, seminars, classes, fly tying and fly casting demonstrations, and theater presentations to fishing art, lodges and vacation destinations.

Gas South Convention Center is at 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway. The nearby Embassy Suites by Hilton Atlanta is the official show hotel and offers discounted accommodations.

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 $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.

Due to demand from both exhibitors and attendees, the 2023 Atlanta Fly Fishing Show has expanded from two to three days. Exhibitor booth space is sold out.

There will be 15 Classes with the Experts including a day-long advanced fly casting course taught jointly by Dr. Gary Borger and Mac Brown on Thurs., Feb. 2. Cost for the full day advanced class is $625.

Standard class registration is $90 and includes Master Advanced Fly Line Control with Mac Brown, Sight Fishing Secrets for Giant Trout with Landon Mayer, The Perfect Cast with Borger, Fundamentals of Euronymphing with Jason Randall, Practical Nymphing with Ed Engle, Fly Fishing Tailwaters with Pat Dorsey, Women Only Casting with Whitney Gould, Quick-Step Leech Patterns that Catch Fish with Landon Mayer and The Art of Nymph Fishing with Jason Randall.

The Classes with Experts registration fee includes admission to the show for that day.

There are 28 free seminars including Georgia’s Best High Country Trout Options with Jimmy Jacobs, Fly Fishing for Carp – a 20 Pound Fish Near Home with Jeff Currier, Fishing the Non-Hatch Times with Dr. Borger, What Trout Like to Eat and Flies to Feed Them with Tim Flagler, Trout Spey Primer with Gould, Beyond Reading the Water with Randall, and Offbeat Tactics that Catch Trout with Engle.

Among the continuous Destination Theater presentations are Mongolia, Endangered Fish and Nomadic Cultures; Fishing for Tailing Permit in Belize; White River Arkansas’ Big Brown Trout; Cuba with Kristen Tripp; Central American Jewels Belize and Honduras; Intro to Fly Fishing the Seychelles; and Labrador - World Record Size Brook Trout, Arctic Char, and Northern Pike.

Nearly continuous casting demonstrations are scheduled in the show’s two ponds by Bob Clouser, Gould, Borger, Brown, Tenkara with Luong Tam, Currier, Andy Mill and Kevin Howell.

Featured fly tiers include Clouser, Borger, Engle, Dorsey, Howell, Brown, Flagler, and Mayer.

More than $30,000 worth of national door prizes are up for grabs including a week’s guided fishing for two anglers at Tarpon Caye Lodge, Belize, valued at $8,400; SET’s Spring Creek Lodge in Northern Patagonia for one, $5,450; a $5,000 credit on any Fish Partner Iceland trip listed on their website; five night, four days fishing package at Swains Cay Lodge, Bahamas Out Islands valued at $4,685; and two night, two days of fishing at the Big Land Lodge, Labrador, Canada, valued at approximately $4,000.

A complete list of door prizes is on The Fly Fishing Show website.

The Southeast premiere of the two hour 2023 International Fly Fishing Film Festival is Fri. (2/3/23) at 6:30. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door.

For all films, classes, seminars, door prizes, and demonstrations visit https://flyfishingshow.com/atlanta/ or phone (814) 443-3638.