Fly Lines and Fish Tales

May 1999

Angling is the way to round out a happy life.
Charles K. Fox

Next Meeting: Wednesday May 19th

Meeting Starts at 6:30! New Earlier Time!

TFF Meets at The Green Oaks Mobile Home Park Club House, 2929 MacArthur Drive, just a tad south of Interstate 205.

Program: Mountain Bike Flyfishing, by Steve Schramm

Raffle to close meeting. We'll be out by 9 pm!

Steve Schramm: "Wild Rides for Wild Fish"

For the past twelve years Steve Schramm has travelled up and down California in search of the next fish. In an effort to beat the weekend crowds, and to experience the excellent fishing in the harder to reach waters of California, he has combined his passion for fly fishing with mountain biking. Join him for a presentation of highlights, tips, and techniques taken from favorite rides down the single track less travelled.

Raffle: Always Great!

Teeny shooting line-8WT
Rio floating line-6WT
Rio shooting head wallet
Rio tippet-3x,4x'5x'6x
Rio leader-3 packs
Ken Hanley books, autographed
Dave's flex cement
Future glues
Jay Fair feathers

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 Fly of the Month

The Winner of the Fly of the month contest gets a prize. The fly of the month is a Stonefly, dry fly. Put yours in for the judging! The fly box will be raffled off to raise money for a new slide projector for the club.

When: June 6,1999 at 1:00 pm

Where: Tracy Wildlife (North on tracy Blvd going out of town, over 2nd bridge and make a left on Finck Rd. )

Cost: $5.00 per person or $20.00 per family (cost helps Charcoal and area)

- Bring your own meat to Barbecue, drinks and one dish to share- Bring the family and enjoy a day in the sun. We are going to have games and a casting contest for children and adults. "Prizes will be given to the winners" Also enjoy the day fishing for Bass and Blue Gill.

There will again be an awesome "Raffle" to finish off the day.

Sign up at the May1999 meeting or call Chuck Sterni or Steve Potter for any Info

Come enjoy the day, & have fun with your TFF friends!

Thanks to Cliff Sullivan at (209)832-3114 and Chuck Robbins at (209) 835-7812

We have 7 youth involved in this course.

May 19: Meeting: STEVE SCHRAMM, MOUNTAIN BIKE FLY FISHING

May 21-23: Club Outing: Davis Lake Float Tube Trip. (Contact Dick Lanza or Roland Coleman) See Below!

June 16: Meeting: JAMIE MADDOX " TROUT FISHING AT SAW MILL LAKE "

June 19: Saw Mill Lake outing

June 19: Club Outing: Martis Lake float tube trip. (Contact Chuck Sterni)

Summer Barbeque, TBD

July 21: Regular Meeting

Aug 13-15: Club Outing: Middle Fork Of The Feather River (See Mike Carlson For More Info)

Aug 18: Meeting: STEPHEN HAGGARD, HIDDEN TREASURES OF LAKE TAHOE REGION

Sept 15:Meeting: TOM MALECH, San Jose Fly Shop, SPEY ROD TECHNIQUES

Sept17-19: Club Outing: Clarks Fork. (Contact Rick Clemens)

Oct 20: Regular Meeting

Nov 17: Regular Meeting

Dec 15: Regular Meeting: Members slide show.

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Davis Lake Outing, May 21-23

Rich Lanza sez: Big Trout are waiting at Davis. Camping is on the south east of Davis Lake, but the best fly fishing is at the North West. Bring a boat, or a vehicle capable of getting into rough and muddy situations (4WD is best bet) if you need to drive into the North West area to fish. Expect COLD weather! Be prepared! Snow and or rain are possible. This is a very tenuous time of year there.

Davis lake is about 4 to 5 hours, (an hour beyond Truckee?) depending on your comfort level with winding roads and speed, and of course, weather.

Take your 5 weight rod. Float tubes are good. Water is cold. Use intermediate lines for fishing snail imitations, and use Damselfly nymphs on floating lines.

Rich can be contacted at 835-6065.

Amazin' stuff happens to us opportunists...

Have you been fishing? Have you noticed how you feel when you are fishing? I fish because I feel good when I fish. I could say it is totally a selfish pleasure.I take the opportunity to feel good. But why go fishing otherwise? It's an opportunity to take in the outdoors, without a lawnmower in your hands. It's an opportunity to be on the water when the sun comes up, yet again, and say a silent thankyou for yet another opportunity. It comes down to siezing the day, the opportunity to veg out, or grow in appreciation, or just be selfishly pleased.

Carpool this month if you can. Invite a friend to join you for the ride. It helps keep us talking to each other. Spaces in the lot are precious, and the lot fills up by 6 or shortly thereafter.

The fishing opportunities are wide open now. Plan on catching fish. Take a camera and use it. Trout in the Sierra, shad in the valley, bass in the ponds, stripers in the delta. Make an invitation to a club member to join you and plan a trip together. We be fishin'. We be opportunists.

Corey

825-3982 or ccate@dnai.com

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who reaches this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad he has been an angler. ---Lord Grey of Fallondon

How about that weather? Well, it didn't stop me from doing some fishing. I started the year off with a trip to Arnold and White Pines Lake. The weather was great for the weekend but "Boy "was the water cold. It was really good though to see a lot of the club members out there as well enjoying the day. There were a few trout caught, nothing big but it was still good to be out on the water again. We also took a trip up to Beaver Creek on Sunday but the water was around 42 degrees. Real cold !!! Not much action on that day. Still this year looks promising and i look forward to some upcoming trips and enjoying the water and some great times

Chuck S.

"Intermediate Fly Tying Class"

For all you graduating tiers from the Beginning class...Now is your chance to move on up!

When: May 20, 1999 (Thursday Nights), Time: 7pm- 9pm

Cost :$ 40.00 Per Club Member (Non-Members are $50 )

Seating is limited, so Sign up soon! All Supplies are included. Enjoy the time with 6 of the best club tiers teaching this art! (See sign up sheet at the meeting)

Fishin Big Louie

1-209-826-9019 is the number to call for wind reports for San Luis Reservoir and ONeill Forebay.

It's an underutilized resource, an hour from our doorsteps. Big Stripers on Flies in Float Tubes... Need I say more?

Club Outing dual trip to the Truckee area: 12 have contracted to fish in SawMill Lake for the day on June 19... A club outing will take place on the same day at Martis Lake, which is in the same general vicinity. Camping is available nearby to Martis, and the potential is there to join together for dinners on Friday and Saturday nights. Planning is underway. Contact Chuck Sterni for more info on Martis particulars.

Hi from 1/2 way around the world. I am finally over the seriously hard case of jet lag I had. I was in transit a long, long time. Left Tracy in the local airport van at 4:30 am on May 2, and arrived in Ekaterinburg airport approximately 31 hours later. ugh. The weather has been mostly cool with some rain and some snow flurries just about every other day. We have had [count them] 2 major Russian holidays, so all in all, I have only had two working days to the present time. [it is Tuesday afternoon right now]. I was planning to get out on the lake & fish yesterday afternoon, & we had the largest snow storm yet! & so didn't go out. I am glad that I got out to the K-Arrown bass ponds before I left California. DOE (Sandy works for Sandia National Lab) in its infinite wisdom restricts our non-business time on the WEB to 15 minutes, so I use all my time in email transmission. I tried to search for more news about the tornedoes in Okalahoma, but was not able to get much & so gave up on the web time. If you send me the Tracy club URL, I can try a direct link. but there is no point in searching! Our Russian server is not too bad, but slow.

Let me know how the various club activities go. I hope to be able to do a lot of the trips when I get back. Also, my fishing buddy in El Cerrito should be back on her feet [she had surgery] and would love to come with us on camping trips. We will be going off to Hat Creek sometime later in the summer.

Anyhow, keep the club rolling. Miss you guys already! By the way, leave my name in the subject line, and the guys promise not to read my mail. Sandy Leo

Check out their webpage when you get a chance. http://www.dnai.com/~ccate/CSPAPagerev0.html

URGENT ALERT:

THE SOUTH YUBA RIVER NEEDS YOUR IMMEDIATE HELP

Senate Bill 496, to include the South Yuba River in the California State Wild and Scenic Rivers System, will soon be voted on by the State Senate, and the vote is expected to be very close. Proposed for protection is the 39-mile segment of the South Yuba River between Spaulding and Englebright Reservoirs.

In addition to being worthy of protection as one of the finest stretches of California's few remaining free flowing rivers, the South Yuba is a key component for the survivability of the Central Valley's wild steelhead and chinook salmon runs. Downstream of Englebright Reservoir, the Lower Yuba currently supports the Central Valley's last sustaining runs of wild steelhead and chinook salmon. Reintroduction of wild runs of salmon and steelhead into the upper Yuba River is a key restoration goal identified by CALFED and is now being very seriously considered. However, the Yuba County Water Agency is currently studying two major dam sites on the South Yuba. These dams would destroy this river forever, eliminating the possibility of ever reintroducing steelhead and salmon. And if past experience is any teacher, the operation of these dams would most certainly result in erratic water flows which would severely impact the few miles of habitat below Englebright Dam that still manages to sustain these magnificent fish.

Again, the upcoming senate vote is expected to be very close. Please write your state senator in support of SB496.

With the listing of the steelhead and potential listing of the chinook salmon, all the water users across the state of California now have a stake in the viability of these fish. It is not a local issue of interest only to anglers. You might remind our senators of this, especially those from southern California. The vote will be before June 4, and probably before May 27, so time is critical.

Fishing Reports on the Web: TFF fishing reports always wants your stories and photos. Tell the editor, Corey Cate, where you went, what flies you used, and what a great time you had. Give him your best shots. Send input to Corey. He'll post them to the web.

Tracy Fly Fishers PO Box 1919 Tracy CA 95378-1919