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SEPTEMBER DFC-6pg-06
SEPTEMBER D E S E R T F L Y C A S T E R S A B A R Presidents Message- September 2006 B L E S S C L U B Cinda Howard There’s a lot going on this month and there should be something for everyone. On the 16th and 17th we will have an educational outing to Canyon Creek. This will be for anyone that wants to either learn to fish small streams or just improve their skills. We will cover bugs, flies, technique, and approach. Bring a small streams rod (between 7 and 8 foot), flies (caddis, stimulators, grasshoppers, pheasant tail nymphs, hare’s ear nymphs, prince nymphs, buggers), 5 or 6x leaders, and strike indicators. Waders are optional, it should still be warm enough to wet wade. We will meet on the stream at 8:00 a.m. See Canyon Creek map below ▼ AUGUST MEETING: Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006 PIZZA and Chit-Chat at 6:00 PM Meeting- 7:00 PM American Legion Post #2 2125 S. Industrial Park Ave. in Tempe A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. On the 23rd we will be meeting at the Salt River for yet another educational outing. This will be a primer for the San Juan outing in October. If you are planning on going to the San Juan or you would just like to learn Canyon Creek how to effectively fish big water, this is an outing for you. It will cover equipment, rigging, and technique. Bring a 9’ 4, 5, or 6 weight rod, various flies, 5x leaders, strike indicators, and split shot. Meet at the upstream lot (east) at Blue Point Bridge at 7:00 a.m. Don’t forget that it is now $6 to park. >>>See article on page 5 by Doug Walker for more info, “PLUS!!” San Juan set-ups by Bill Thyng. If you have any questions about any of the above outings, you can call me at (480) 217-5089. Hope to see you soon! CINDA DFC SEPTEMBER PROGRAM.... Desert Fly Casters Supports BARBLESS HOOKS CATCH & RELEASE The September speaker is Skip Dixon from Lees Ferry Anglers Guides and Fly Shop. He will be presenting on the fantastic fishing at Lees Ferry and telling us all his secrets of success there! Please come join us for a great presentation on some of the best moving water in Arizona!!! MEMBERSHIP CORNER For those that have returned the member questionnaire THANK YOU. If you have not returned the form yet, please complete it and return it as soon as you can. When I get the data collected I will present it at one of the meetings. New Members August 2006: Glen Knight • Mike Mueller Hope to see you at one of our upcoming outings. There is one planned for Sept, Oct and Nov. Check the newsletter for details. Any questions about your membership see me at the meeting, give me a call or e-mail me. Charlie Rosser at: 480-586-7163 LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS BEHIND WHEN WALKING THE PATHWAYS OF OUR ARIZONA ENVIRONMENT Desert Fly Casters MEXICO REVISITED Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point) is Arizona’s beach, and a great place to begin your saltwater fly fishing adventures. Going with the club can make this short drive (4-5 hours) easier and more enjoyable than you may have imagined. If your only fly fishing experience has been Arizona trout and bass, this is an opportunity to build on your knowledge. November 3-5 will be the club outing in Puerto Penasco. Many Desert Fly Casters have salt water experience that can help you with gear, flies, casting, reading the water, tides, new knots, leaders, etc. Although saltwater may be different than dry fly fishing Canyon Creek, you may have just enough gear to get by, and still have a great time. There is usually plenty of extra gear floating around. You don’t even need waders for this trip. Minimum gear a strong 6 weight rod, (an 8 weight would be better) swim trunks, sun glasses, Tevas, a floating line will do, but the more sinking lines you have the better. Any reel will do, the fish here do not make long runs, although there are some small bone fish. If you own a pontoon boat this is a great place to use it, again some members have extras and would be glad to have someone use the equipment. Your fly box should have clousers, deceivers, and shrimp patterns. White with a chartreuse back is one of my most productive flies. Hook sizes from 6 up to a 2 will all catch fish. Other good colors are white on white and tan on white, also use lots of flash. We can show you how to tie these patterns at the Friday evening social. by Vince Deadmond Make plans to go, make reservations soon. Puerto Penasco is growing fast, but the hotels, condos, and RV parks are filling up even faster. Some RV parks are selling out and building condos on the beach. Expect to hear no vacancy if you wait too long. The club has secured 10 spaces at the Playa De Oro RV Park. Some people make arrangements for condos or hotel accommodations, again I strongly urge you to make arrangements early. Playa De Oro is $20 per night per space. They have enough room for your RV, camper, or tent. They have restrooms and showers that are nice, and they have a coffee shop that ends up being the central meeting place. The club has the recreation room at Playa De Oro for Friday evening November the 3. We plan to have a social, bring something to cook on the grill, and a side dish to share. After we fill our faces, we can talk about how to fish, where to fish, what kind of fish was that, what ever questions you may have about fishing Puerto Penasco. Doc has made arrangements to have the Saturday evening banquet at the Baja Cantina. Prime rib dinner, fun, fish tales, and the raffle pays for the dinner, so buy plenty of raffle tickets. T shirts will again be available. What you really want to know about is the fish. November fishing in Rocky Point is usually at its best. The usual catch includes Cabrilla, Trigger, Pompano, Sea Trout, Parrot Fish. All of these fish will put a bow in your rod, and even the small Cabrilla will surprise you with how hard they pull. Flounder can be caught, and even the occasional bone fish will show up. Needle fish are also quite common. You have your best chance at catching Sea Trout at sun rise and sun set. They school and you can catch fish after fish if you hit a school. This can be done from the shore or in your tube. Pompano are another fish that schools and when you catch one you will usually catch more. These guys will take large poppers, sometimes you will have three fish trying to crash you popper. Trigger are usually deeper and will give you the best tug of war for the size of fish. I am looking forward to seeing you on the water in Puerto Penasco. Make your plans and sign the sign-up sheet at the September meeting. This would be a good time to plan who is driving, where you are staying, when you are returning, and other travel arrangements. If you are planning to use one of the clubs 10 sights, at the RV Park I need a $30 deposit at the September meeting to hold your spot. November 3-4-5 Rocky Point....Hosted by Doc Nickel ...any questions see Doc at the September club meeting. Desert Fly Casters Gearing up for the Rocky Point Trip by Mark Lucht The annual Desert Fly Casters annual trip to Rocky Point is fast approaching, so it time to think about the gear you need to get ready. Rods -- 6 to 8 weight flyrod with the 8 being the best choice. Reels – A good Salt Water reel. The Orvis Battenkill Mid Arbor is nice and is only about $120. Fly Lines – A fast sinking line. Preferably T-8 or about 300 grains. Leaders – 6 to 8 foot leaders are the preferred length. I prefer FlouroCarbon. You can buy the store bought leaders if you want. My preference is just 6 to 8 feet of straight Flouro. Flys – Clousers and Deceivers in assorted colors on hooks sized 1 through 3. We typically fish along the shore from our pontoon boats and some use float tubes. If you are fishing from a boat you probably wont need waders. You can also fish the surf in front of the campground by what looks like an old boat ramp. You will need to bring your passport or birth certificate and drivers license. You also will need to get Mexican Insurance for your vehicle and trailer if pulling one. Desert Fly Casters This is the first of a 3 part series on fishing some of the best fly fishing waters in the western US. The Clackamas River, Portland, Oregon “So, if I hired us a guide to take us out on one of the nearby rivers, you would be willing to give it a try?” I was asking a close friend of mine, Cindy Smith, who lives in Portland, Oregon if she would like to try her hand at fly fishing. Cindy had never fished before, much less fly fished but was open to seeing what this fly fishing stuff was all about. The focus for this trip was a gun show in Seattle in late July but I had planned my summer vacation to encompass the gun show with a series of stops along the way to test several fishable waters in the Pacific Northwest. With all the great rivers around the Portland area and a chance to visit with Cindy, the pieces sort of fell into place. I did a quick web search and came up with Country Sport Limited Fly Fishing in downtown Portland. A couple of phone calls and some reference checks later and Cindy and I were booked to fish the Clackamas River which is located just outside of Portland proper on July 17th. I had also arranged for a guide to take me out on the Deschutes River on the following Wednesday but that is a subject of another article. We met Nick Rowell, our guide, at a 7Eleven in Oregon City at about 7:30 in the morning. Nick’s truck was easy to spot, who else but a fishing guide is sitting in a 7-Eleven parking lot first thing in the morning with all sorts of rods and fishing equipment in the back of their truck. Nick led us to McIver State Park which is only 45 minutes from Portland where we parked and changed into waders and rigged up rods and reels. After negotiating down a river bank of slippery mud and large rocks, we arrive at a beautiful section of river, a picture perfect setting for casting!! Nick checked my leader, tied on a small caddis and then went over to help Cindy get rigged. Nick indicated that the river was full of rainbows and it didn’t take long before I had one on the line!! Is life great or what? After a while I moved myself downstream where it looked like a good spot for fish to hang out. Before long I had added two more nice trout to the take. During this time, Cindy who had never had a rod in her hands until that day, had landed a nice rainbow herself. “A cute little fish” she later remarked. Coming up on mid day, Nick offered to go after lunch and bring it back relieving us of the risk of breaking a leg by trying to get up and back down the river so we graciously accepted. I decided to tie on a classic dry fly, the Adams, which I had tied back in Phoenix before I left. I rigged my leader with the Adams while Cindy took a break. After a few minutes of casting with nothing at all the surface of the water literally exploded!! “Did you see that?” I asked Cindy. No, she didn’t but that didn’t take away from the excitement of seeing a trout try and devour a fly that I had tied myself. Way cool. After lunch I asked Nick if I couldn’t try for some of the steelhead that lay in a pool upstream of where we were. Steelhead are essentially a race of sea-run, or anadromous, rainbow trout which have distinct dark spots on the dorsal fin and a square-shaped tail fin and often have a pink or reddish stripe along the sides and a reddish gill cover. Typically, steelhead range from 5 to 15 pounds and in some places, they can reach weights of 30-plus pounds with lengths of 45 inches, depending on how many years the fish spends in the by Doug Walker ocean. By mid July, steelhead had started to move into the Clackamas River and a few were around. For my attempt, Nick tied on of all things, a black wooly bugger. I maneuvered out into the pool and positioned myself on a large bounder in the stream in a little less than chest deep water. “Cast toward that rock and keep a fairly tight line on the drift” Nick instructed. So, I stood there: cast, strip line in, repeat. After a while I felt a sharp jerk on the line! One just tasted it commented Nick. Keep going. After numerous attempts and several fly changes later my line took a hard hit and my pole was definitely showing the weight of a nice steelhead on the other end. But before I could literally react and attempt to set the hook it was gone. “He definitely had it but spit it out” said Nick. All I could do was hold up my hands in defeat to Cindy who was watching it all from across the stream. After a little while longer, we decided to call it a day and carefully headed back upstream and to the parking area. Nick explained that a good day is when you get even a single steelhead on the take and I had two. Cindy had landed her first fish, on a fly rod no less; I had landed several nice rainbows and hooked up two steelheads. While it would have been great to actually get one on the reel and spend 30 or so glorious minutes landing a beauty, I had a wonderful time. Besides, I need to leave something for the next adventure. Next month: stalking trophy rainbow trout on the Deschutes River. Cindy Smith with guide Nick Rowell on the Clackamas River. Desert Fly Casters Salt River Educational Outing by Doug Walker There will be an educational outing on the Salt River on Saturday, September 23, 2006. The focus is to prepare folks for the San Juan River outing Oct 14-17. Club instructors will be there to teach you how to rig to your line for nymphing, casting techniques, how to read the water, and a host of other useful knowledge. We will meet at the Blue Point Bridge, upstream side (east side) at 7am. You will need a long rod (preferably 9 foot), 4, 5, or 6 weight, 5x leaders and tippet, strike indicators, weights, and flies. Grilled lunch will be provided, please bring a side dish. A cooler will be available for use ☛ TAKE NOTE OF BILL THYNG’S ILLUSTRATIONS.... THESE WILL BE VERY HELPFUL WHILE ON THE RIVER...THANKS BILL! Desert Fly Casters 2006 DESERT FLY CASTERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Outings - Outings - Outings Cinda Howard- President Steve Berry-Vice President Mark Lucht- Treasurer Dave Weaver- Secretary OUTING HOST September 16-17 Canyon Creek..............Charlie Rosser October 14-17 San Juan.........................Cinda Howard November 3-4-5 Rocky Point........................Doc Nickel OutingsBill Thyng Programs Tyler Stone Retail Gerry Wiemelt Membership Charlie Rosser Education Doug Walker Any questions call Cinda Howard at: (480) 217-5089 TU/FFF/WCC: Rocky Minster @@@@@@@@e? @@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@?e@@@@@@@@e?@@@@@@@@? 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We are always looking for donations from club members so if you have something that you want to give, you can contact Tyler Stone by e-mail at [email protected] or see him at the next DFC meeting.....Thanks! MAIL TO: Desert Fly Casters PO Box 42252 Mesa, AZ 85274-2252 ☛ Videos & Books Chuck Elliot Conservation Open Raffles Doc Nickel Newsletter Editor/Graphics Guru Robert McKeon Website Guru Ted MiskinnsMembership at Large Jim Fraijo Jim Dickson Jay Figley DESERT FLY CASTERS HOT LINE 480-654-6111 Web Address Site http://www.desertflycasters.com