MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – 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, Marlborough.

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. Parking is free.

There will be 26 Classes With the Experts including a day-long 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 8-hour class is premium priced at $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.

Others are Single-Handed Spey Casting with Rownes; The Ultimate Saltwater Fly Fishing Clinic with Capt. Bruce Chard; Beyond Cast & Strip - Presentation Flies for Stripers with Steve Culton; and Mastering the Art of Dry Fly Presentation with Frank Burr.

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.

Fly-casting demonstrations are slated daily with presentations by Hassan, Jeff Currier, Ed Lombardo, Daniel and Frank Burr.

Fly Fishers International (FFI) hosts the free Fly Fishing Learning Center with fly tying, casting instruction and other fly fishing information.

There are continuous fly tying demonstrations plus featured fly tiers Caolo, Culton, Engle, Joe Cordeiro and Rowley.

The world premiere of the two hour 2025 International Fly Fishing Film Festival is Fri. (1/17/25) at 6:30. Tickets are $14 in advance or $20 at the door.

Included in the festival films are Native Range – Native cutthroat trout in Utah; Fishing Diaries – Giant trevally in the Seychelles; Silent Spotter – A deaf and mute guide in Xcalak, Mexico; Time Will Tell – Paul Puckett’s impact on the fly fishing world; Above the Clouds – Five friends on a journey into Colorado’s alpine; New Beginnings – Casa Mar and the legends Chico Fernandez and Dan Blanton; and Legacy – The life and story of Cathy and Barry Beck.

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