“President’s Message” Chapter 2.3 by: Richard Higgins

2017 Board Mem-

bers

Richard Higgins: 750-9132

President

Greg Smith: 696-4406

Vice-President

Roger Caton: 633-4659

Treasure

Dave Gambetta 970-5065

Secretary

Lou de Silva: 444-2744

Bill Pshide: 424-3063

Richard Wilson 758-5313

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Rick McCombs

(209) 267-8088

Newsletter Editor

Bill Pshide

424-3063

F ly Tying Chairman

Webmaster

Dave Gambetta

970-5065

FFLYLY TTIMESIMES

SALINAS VALLEY FLY FISHERS April 2017

President’s message 1

Fly of the Month 2

Monthly Program 3

Outing Schedule 3

Featured Stream 4

Maps 5

Events 6

Inside this issue:

The word is out. The last week of March, Dave and Jay hooked up on White Bass at Nacimiento Lake. The bite should be holding until the middle of April before they head back into deep water. The boat ride is 18 miles and the last half is in the narrows with a wake-less speed limit. It will take over an hour to get there so plan accordingly. Don’t forget to tie a few of the “B” flies.

The club outing to Pyramid Lake was a great success. Greg did a bang-up job as fishmaster/guide and kept the guys on track. Fishing was spotty, but everyone caught fish. Loren had a hot rod with three hook-ups from the chair at Indian Head Beach and Greg had double digits at the rocks at Pelican. Both Greg and I com-pleted our score cards by catching our fifth species in Pyramid Lake. The guys enjoyed dinner, desert and comradery at Crosby’s during at our Friday night gathering. Thanks to Fred Crosby for the hos-pitality and for making donations for our annual dinner. We are cur-rently picking dates to return in 2018, so stay tuned.

Welcome to our newest members of the club: Kurt Dillard and Grigg Dewitt. Be sure to make it a point to welcome them and in-

troduce yourself at the meeting. April’s club outing is on the

22nd

. We will be fishing the ponds at Fort Hunter Liggett, in conjunc-tion with the 15

th Annual Youth

Fishing Derby, at Del Venturi Res-ervoir. Let us know if you are inter-ested in attending the outing. Check out the link: https://hunterliggett.armymwr.com/us/hunterliggett/hunterliggett-events/15th-annual-youth-fishing-derby?eID=865038

A special thanks goes out to Esther Miyamoto who donating Alan’s boat to the club. We are go-ing to raffle it off at the 2017 Muddy River Classic on July 8

th.

You do not need to be present to win, but you do need to come to a general meeting to purchase tick-ets or show up the day of the event. Raffle tickets are $25.00 apiece and the boat is complete with motor, trailer, signed titles, tolling motor, batteries and misc. equipment. This raffle is only open to club members and the winner must remove the boat as soon as possible after the event!

Herman Garcia, President of CHEER, Coastal Habitat Educa-tion and Environmental Restora-tion, will be our guest speaker for the April meeting. He will be dis-cussing restoration (cont. on pg 3)

Page 2 Fly Times

Fly of the Month: Czech Mate Nymph

Czech-Mate Nymph

The Salinas Airport is our home for Fly Tying. Come join us for a real treat: Make it your New

Years resolution to take the next step into the sport of fly fishing by learning how to tie your own flies. Bill

Pshide continues to be “Professor in Charge”and does a great job of demonstrating how to tie a wide variety

of flies. No materials or equipment are needed. Everyone is welcome. This month is the Czeck Mate

Nymph. This particular fly pattern is a great deep water nymph for high water conditions, so this one should

be a good fly to have in your box this year for the trout opener. ed.

Hook: 8-14 GC2457 Scud

Back: Thin Skin Fly Specks Clear

Rib: 3X Tippet & Gold Tinsel

Body: Hare's Mask Cheek Dubbing

Hotspot: STS Trilobal Dub Fl Pink

Thorax: Hare's Ear Dubbing

Thread: 70 Dark Olive

The Czech Mate Nymph

The Czech Mate Nymph fly pattern is used to imitate a number of different trout foods such as a scud or

caddis larva. These scud nymphs are very common in fast riffle water and commonly used by Europeans

in their tight line nymphing techniques. Add a bit of weight to get these flies down in the riffles and then

pull the fly up to the surface on the swing to imitate them swimming to the surface to emerge. If you plan

to fish Heenan Lake this fall, Take some of these along as a scud imitation. ed.

White Ticket Prize at April Meeting There will be a white ticket Prize at this month’s meeting.

Large Arbor “Wet Fly” Reel 7/8 wt

April General Meeting at the Flying Artichoke

Be sure to put this coming Wednesday on your calendar for the club’s monthly meeting. Featured speaker

will be Herman Garcia. Herman is a President of Coastal Habitat Education and Environmental Restora-

tion (CHEER). In addition to that, there will be plenty of fish stories, reminiscing about the one that got a

way at Pyramid Lake, and planning for the outing to Hunter Liggett. By the way, if you haven’t witnessed

the skeptical of old overgrown men trying to scare little children off the pond so they could get at those

planted Rainbow Trout, Well, let’s just say: It’s worth the price of admission. You’ll also get a chance at

the white ticket prize this month in addition to the regular raffle and some great B.S. talk time with your

fishing buddies. Hope you can make it..

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Salinas Valley Fly Fishers**2017 Outing, Events and Programs

April 12th General Meeting Flying Artichoke Herman Garcia

CHEER

Richard

Higgins

750-9132

April 19th. Fly Tying Salinas Airport

Board Room

Czech Mate

Nymph

Bill Pshide 424-3063

April 22nd Club Outing Fort Hunter-

Liggett

Kids

Trout Derby

Jay Jefferson 809-0290

April 26th. Board Meeting Salinas Airport

Flying Artichoke

All Member

Welcome

Richard

Higgins

750-9132

May 10th. General Meeting Salinas Airport

Flying Artichoke

Don Brown

Hex Hatch

Richard

Higgins

750-9132

May 20th. Club Outing Salinas River

Beach

Surf Perch Richard

Higgins

750-9132

June 23-25th Club Outing Lake Almanor Trout Jack Clark

Upcoming Events

(Prex mess. cont.) efforts of the Pajaro River, its tributaries and fish habitat improvements. His group has greatly improved steelhead migration to the spawning grounds by removing manmade trash ob-stacles and natural obstructions in the river and tributaries. This will be a very informative presenta-tion.

Be sure to join us on the third Wednesday of each month for fly tying. The fly for April is the Czech Mate Nymph. If you want to learn how to tie flies, show up at the conference room at the Salinas Airport at 6:00pm and Bill will guide you step by step.

Don’t forget that the trout opener is on starts April 29th. Now is the time to clean the cobs

webs off of your fly fishing gear. Until next month…………………… Keep your rod tips up and your lines tight! —Richard

Going to Hunter Liggett?

Well, after Roger and Jay and Dave and Richard have managed to chase all

the kids off the pond, that’s when the serious fishing will start. I only wish I

could be there to see it. I always like to make fun of them guys, but I have had

some great times there myself. With the weather this year the pond will

probably still hold good trout for 2-3 weeks after the event. Al Miyamoto had

a great technique for those “planters”. Dry line with a long leader, weighted

fly tan color fly (fish pellet). Wait for a fish to roll then smack’m on the head

and hold on. It worked like a charm. “Thanks Al” Good Fish………….ed.

SVFF Featured Stream for April

The Mokelumne River (off Hwy 49 near Jackson)

Directions: Main Mokelumne: Take Electra Road where Hwy 49 crosses the Mokelumne, just 6 miles south of Jackson.

North Fork Mokelumne: Take Hwy 88 from Jackson. Take Salt Springs Road to Salt Springs Reservoir.

Tributary Roads will get you to the River. Tiger Creek is a good access hike from it's Reservoir near

Amador Ranger Station. Another access point is taking Hwy 88, past the Ranger Station, to Ellis Road

which will take you 11 miles down to Mokelumne River Camp.

South Fk Mokelumne: On Hwy 4, reach Camp Connell near Dorrington and take Summit Level Road

(6N23). Summit Level will follow the South Fork of the Mokelumne downstream to Road 26. You'll need

to take tributary logging roads to reach the river.

The name "Mokelumne" is a Native American term from the Miwok tribe meaning people of the fishnet.

Most of the Mokelumne above Hwy 49 contains small Browns and Rainbows in the 8" to 14" class. The

area is honeycombed with logging roads and small creeks. The main stem above Pardee Reservoir can have

a lot of snow run-off until July. At that time, the pools show up well and it is quite fishable. Rainbows are

planted within the stream but large wild browns come up the river and hold within the pools. The North

Fork above Salt Springs Reservoir is also a good flyfishing opportunity during the early season. By July,

however, the water flows greatly diminish and the fish are under considerable stress. The Mokelumne River

flows into two Reservoirs below Hwy 49, the Pardee and Camanche Reservoir. Below Camanche offers

nice access for driftboat fishing for Steelhead and trout between Camanche and the town of Clements.

Still For Sale

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9 foot, with Aluminum oars and stripping apron

Good condition $350 or ?

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Salinas Valley Fly Fishers

P.O Box 1793

Salinas, CA 93902

Editor: Rick McCombs

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"All You Need to Know"

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General Meeting

April 12th.

Salinas Airport

(Flying Artichoke)

April Outing April 22nd

Fort Hunter-Liggett

Kids Day Fish Derby

Contact: Richard Higgins

Fly Tying

Wedn. April 19th. Salinas Airport Board Room

(Czech Mate Nymph)

Board of Directors

Wednesday April 26nd.

Flying Artichoke @

Salinas Airport