Alice Conba - Ireland

Alice began her fly dressing at the age of 15, watched by her father, Tom Conba, a well known fisherman. After many years of learning and studying….she is self taught….she became a professional fly dresser and set up her own fly dressing studio called Maxconba, employing ten people. During those years she supplied DAM of Germany with over 1000 flies each day and was main manufacturer for that company. She also supplied flies to Austria, Iceland, New Zealand, New York, California and England as well as her own country.

At the present time in her life she is semi retired and does fly dressing strictly for pleasure. She has demonstrated fly dressing at exhibitions in San Mateo, San Jose, San Francisco (Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club of which she is an honorary member), Santa Cruz, New Jersey, Germany, Norway, England and Fly Fair in Holland which holds many good memories for her. She dresses all types of flies ; mayflies, wet flies, dry flies, parachutes, bead heads, lake flies etc. She has many friends who fish with her flies and, as a result, her fly dressing is evolving all the time. She is happiest sitting at her vice.

203 of her flies can be seen on
http://www.danica.com/flytier/