SLFF Nov 2015A - Santa Lucia Fly Fishers 2015 newsletter.pdf · California Flyfisher magazine in August. He had been tying soft hackled nymphs ... learning opportunities for beginning

(1 SLFF NEWSLETTER – November 2015

PRESIDENT’S LETTER – Lew Leichter

November 2015 John Gierach on hooking big bass in hot weather:

"How the hell am I supposed to set up harder with a beer in my hand? " ”But of course the answer is obvious, you can fish and drink at the same time, but you can't do both well.”

CHASING STEELHEAD (THE FISH OF A THOUSAND CASTS)

I just proved how true this is. Just got back from a day on the Klamath, two days on the Trinity, and a day on the Feather with my grandson Shane. I can count the steelies netted on one hand. Fortunately I spent a day on the Delta with Art and Mark Pinto on the way home catching a good number of stripers and some largemouth bass on top water flies. I have a couple days to reorganize before I head for Pyramid.

ELECTION TIME Your current board has agreed to stay on for 2016. We could really use some help on some of our committees and ask that if you're willing to help you contact one of the committee members listed on the last page of the newsletter. VERY SPECIFICALLY ART CHAPMAN REALLY NEEDS TWO MEMBERS WILLING TO HELP HIM MAINTAIN OUR WEBSITE. WE'RE DOWN TO ONE PERSON AND THAT IS NOT A GOOD SITUATION.

http://www.santaluciaflyfishers.com San Luis Obispo, CA Greg & Mary Lugo, Editors

Tight Lines Nov - 2015


2015 DONATIONS APPROVED

At the October meeting he board approved the following donations:

• Central Coast Salmon Enhancement to create a Watershed Mural Wall. Their facility is becoming a Community Watershed Education Center and this will be the wall will be the highlight and focal piece.

• Morro Bay National Estuary Program to help in the purchase of new flow monitoring

equipment that performs well at low flow levels.

• Upper Salinas Las Tablas Resource Conservation District for habitat restoration work on Santa Rosa Creek.

DECEMBER MEETING: LAST CALL TO GET YOUR PICS TO MARK!

December’s club program will be our 6th Annual Year-in Review show led by Mark Shelton. If you have any digital photos you’d like to see in this show, please email them to Mark at [email protected] This is an interactive program, so members can share their highlights of great trips with the club while watching the slides. Don’t miss it!

MICHAEL SCHWEIT OUR PREZ OF THE SOUTHWESTCOUNCIL WILL ALSO JOIN US.

NOVEMBER MEETING

Rich Chubon was going to do his bone fishing program for us. In a senior moment he forgot he would be at our outing at Scott River Lodge that night. As penance, Rich was tasked with finding an alternative program and came up with a real winner. We will show the film "Rocky Mountain Fly Highway". (see below for info)


SAVE THE DATES

NOV 2-4 Fish Pyramid Lake with Chris Wharton – contact Tom Nicholson. NOV 5 FLY TYING 6:30 at Odd Fellows Hall (see below) NOV 12 General meeting 6:30 to 8:30 Nov 13-15 Scott River Lodge/Klamath River outing. Contact Steve Soenke DEC 4-6 RESCHEDULED OUTING – Stripper outing to O’Neil forebay. Contact Mark Shelton (details to follow).

Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 6:30pm Margie’s Diner, 1575 Calle Joaquin, SLO

“Rocky Mountain Fly Highway”

“The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway” is a one-‐hour documentary narrated by Tom Skerritt, written by Tim Woodward, directed by Tom Hadzor and produced by Wide Eye Productions and the same creative team behind the Emmy Award-‐winning film, “Idaho, the Movie.” The program follows U.S. Highway 20 as it passes through some of the best fly fishing waters in the world. Shot on location in Wyoming,

Montana, Idaho and Oregon, it is a visual feast of scenic beauty. You don’t have to fly fish to love “The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway.”


SLFF Tying Group Jim Snodgrass

The next fly tying session will be held at the Odd Fellows Hall in San Luis Obispo on Thursday, November 5th at 6:30pm.

Soft Hackle Peacock The next fly tying session will be held at the Odd Fellows Hall in San Luis Obispo on Thursday, November 5th at 6:30. Paul Crafts will demonstrate how to tie the Soft Hackle Peacock…a fly that imitates a number of aquatic insects. Paul became interested in the Soft Hackle Peacock after reading an article in the California Flyfisher magazine in August. He had been tying soft hackled nymphs and flymphs, so decided to give the Soft Hackle Peacock a try. Paul feels that the patterns is fairly simple, except for the hackle part…which is where Paul can offer some advice not found in the article or on the internet. Tier and videographer, Tim Flagler offers step by step instructions for tying a version of the Soft Hackle Peacock (Peacock and Partridge) at the web site: http://midcurrent.com/videos/how-to-tie-a-peacock-and-partridge/. According to Tim, the Peacock and Partridge is a fly pattern that’s older than dirt yet still remarkably effective. Using just a few materials, it’s easy to tie and it could represent a whole slew of aquatic insects in various stages of life, anything from a cased caddis to a crippled mayfly dun. Tim prefers to add a couple of modern upgrades like a fluorescent tag and a slick-looking hook.

Materials: Thread Florescent Green UTC 70, or yellow, red, a bright color And black, in UTC 70 Hook TMC 3761 or Daichi 1560, size 12 or 14 Wire Gold, small size Hackle Hungarian partridge skin or feathers, taken from the neck portion of a skin Flash Pearl Flashabout Body Peacock herls, several strands (3-4 per fly)

All materials will be supplied, but be sure and bring your own thread… Paul recommends: Florescent Green UTC 70, or yellow, red, a bright color And black, in UTC 70 Or substitute Uni-Thread 6/0 or 8/0


Pyramid Lake Outing

With Guide Chris Wharton November 3 – 4, 2015

We have moved the dates of the Pyramid Lake Outing up one day to November 3rd and 4th. We will be with guide Chris Wharton, who spoke at our club meeting earlier this year. A trailer at Crosbys has been reserved for the nights of the 2nd-4th. Please contact Tom Nickelson ([email protected] or 805-286-6881) to reserve a spot. The trailer holds up to 8 (last one on a roll-away). Tom will need a head count by early October.

PRIVATE CASTING LESSONS AVAILABLE

While our five IFFF certified casting instructors generously put on a series of free casting clinics for our club members each spring we wanted you to know they are available for private casting lessons throughout the year. If interested please contact them directly for additional information. Bernard Pieters Arroyo Grande 489-3085 [email protected] Eric Sherar Atascadero 423-1070 [email protected] Bob Hurd Arroyo Grande 550-9071 [email protected] Todd Tose Grover Beach 904-5288 [email protected] Chad McPartland Paso Robles 441-0744 [email protected]


IFFF Southwest Council Fly Fishing Faire

Rich Chubon This year’s 6th annual Faire was held on October 16-18th at the Fairgrounds in Bishop, Ca. More than 500 people attended the 3 day event. The set up at the fairgrounds was great allowing for workshops, exhibitors and seminars to be held in one central location. The Faire is supported by the 25 fly fishing clubs, which make up the Southwest Council. The variety of workshops and seminars provided a range of learning opportunities for beginning to advanced fly fishers. Our Club taught a Beginning Fly Fishing class, which consisted of 3 hours of hands on classroom instruction and 3 hours of fishing on Bishop Creek. My thanks to Art Champ and Lew Leichter, for their help with the classroom and on stream instruction. The feed back from the class participants was very positive. Some participants even caught a few fish.

As a bonus we got to enjoy some fall colors and a little fishing on our own. This continues to be a great event that has gotten better each year. I encourage members to put it on your calendars for next year.


October 26, 2015 On behalf of the Estuary Program, I wanted to thank you, SLFF and the board for the generous donation of funds to support our monitoring program. As we mentioned before, we are in the process of researching flow monitoring equipment that performs well at low flow levels. We expect to make the purchase by the end of the year and will notify you when the purchase has been completed. Thought you’d all like to know that Jim Crescenzi is doing well. They’re pretty well settled now. He says he’s done a fair amount of paddling but unfortunately hasn’t been able to get in much fishing yet. Thanks, Lew, and let me know if you have any questions. -‐Ann. Ann Kitajima Monitoring Program Manager Subject: SLFF funds Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 Lew: First of all, thank you again for SLFF’s generous support of our monitoring program. The $1,000 from SLFF was intended to be spent on monitoring equipment upgrades. I’d been talking to Jim Crescenzi about how all of the equipment manufacturers upgrade their equipment (even though it’s perfectly good) to force us all to purchase new equipment. So we’d agreed that the funding would be used to purchase equipment as our current equipment becomes obsolete. As for what monitoring equipment we would purchase, we would like to consider first a flow meter. The meters we have right now don’t work that well at very low flow conditions, which is what we experience in the summer of drought years. We’re hoping that new technology might better handle these low flow conditions. A new unit would likely cost around $4,000 (based on our current equipment cost). Another possibilities is a new meter for measuring nitrates and orthophosphates. We’re considering a new method that is more accurate at the low range. The cost for that unit is approximately $1,300. Unfortunately we haven’t pinned down exactly what we’d like to buy, but I wanted to let you know what we were considering. As far as timing, we’d aim for the fall since we’d like to take some time this summer to consider the different equipment options. Please let us know if the SLFF would be supportive of this use of the funds. Ann Kitajima Monitoring Program Manager


SLFF CLUB HATS Thanks to all for your support and generosity.

We have had a successful year financially. Your board has decided it's "payback time". We will be providing each of you with your FREE club hat. To claim your hat there are two requirements: 1. Pay your $35 annual dues and renew your membership by 2/29/16. After Feb 29th hats can be purchased for $12. 2. Attend a meeting and pick up your hat. NOTE: 20 year and honorary members just need to do #2. Color selection will be limited so first come first served (5 dzn black, 2 dzn dark green, 2 dzn khaki & 2 dzn navy)

SLFF MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION An individual regular membership is $35.00 per year

For 12 months (January through December). Enrollment after 1 July is $20.00 for the remainder of the

year. To join, please download the Membership Form from our

Website: http://santaluciaflyfishers.com/PDF/SLFF/App.pdf


OFFICERS President Lew Leichter Vice President Art Chapman Secretary Sheri Bryant Treasurer Judy Chubon Directors Bernard Pieters Ron Bryant Rich Chubon Mark Shelton Jim Snodgrass Tom Nickelson Committees Conservation Tom Nickelson Website Art Chapman Ron Bryant Ted Pope Doug Daniels (TIC) Newsletter Greg and Mary Lugo Education David Holmes Programs Rich Chubon Casting Bernard Pieters Mark Shelton Eric Sherar Membership Mark Shelton Fly Tying Jim Snodgrass SECFFF Coordinator Lew Leichter Rod Building Mike Powers Rich Chubon Fresh Water Outings Art Chapman Rich Chubon Salt Water Outings Andy Malovos Library Steve Soenke Lew Leichter Fundraising Bob Bayer Banquet & BBQ Sheri and Ron Bryant Lew Leichter Rich Chubon George Protsman


P.O. Box 166 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

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SLFF Nov 2015A - Santa Lucia Fly Fishers 2015 newsletter.pdf · California Flyfisher magazine in August. He had been tying soft hackled nymphs ... learning opportunities for beginning