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Monterey Peninsula Flycasters’ May 2009 NEWSLETTER     John with a nice Steelhead during last year’s Lower Sac Fishout (see some other pics from Lower Sac fishouts here) There are lots of pictures there, it will take some time to open the page...    President’s Message: By John Weber Our April meeting was a standing room only affair. The room was filled with people standing and sitting on the floor. All available seats were filled. Ed Kelleher started Robert Ketley's presentation shortly after 7:00 P.M. The paper had a nice article that said he would start at 7:30 P.M. About fifteen more people came in after the fantastic presentation began. So our speaker started over about three times. Talk about good sports. Robert talked about fly fishing the salt along the shore. He had a nice slide presentation and showed the flies he uses to catch Perch, Stripers, and occasionally a keeper Halibut. He advocated a stripping basket to catch stripped in line cast into the rip tides that would carry the sinking line used out through the feeding lanes. Orange is the favorite color fly. They resemble the egg sacs of sand crabs and the fish hit them. He advocated an indicator for Halibut. A set would be in time for the fishes light take of his fly that was designed to make the right sound. He wanted to get home early to go out at first light in the morning after our meeting. We held the raffle after he left. Five new members signed up. I have been "President for life" since 2002 and have to say that Robert Ketley's presentation was the best ever. His British accent kept us captivated. I think that Rock fishing will open in May. I'm not sure of the specific date but I will get my boat ready to go out by the kelp for some fish. I go during the week and will take members who want to go with me. That would limit two at a time and it may be worthwhile to charter a larger boat for the club to go out on a weekend. We can discuss the  potential outing at our May 5 meeting (Cinco de Mayo). As you all may already know, Salmon season will not open this year and may be closed again next year. If you want Salmon, you will have to go up to Washington, Canada or Alaska. Tight lines, John Weber ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Vice-President’s Message: By Ed Kelleher Note on the May Meeting Program: During one of our scheduling discussions last winter, at least one member suggested a presentation on "The Heritage Trout Challenge", presumably from Calfornia DF&G. Several attempts/requests to the DF&G have made it obvious that they do not have the resources/capability to give a presentation on that topic to our club; nor do they have a canned presentation on the topic. Our Vice President and SLDO has assembled a brief overview of the program, the Heritage Trout and the requirements to complete the challenge. There will be a short presentation of that overview at our May meeting. (Short is a relative term, recall who is presenting!) Please come prepared to supplement that presentation with your fishing reports before/since opening day weekend. Tentatively, our program for June will be a showing of a DVD that was shot primarily at Kelsey Bass Ranch, featuring Ken Hanley and Jay Murakoshi. The title is BASS BLAST, and it is about fishing for bass. Ed Kelleher VP and SLDO ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Treasurer’s Note: By Bill Lauster As a club, we have limited funds, but we do support(donate to) some very worthwhile organizations. Here is a list of those organizations we are currently supporting: Carmel River Steelhead Association Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project California Sportfishing Protection Alliance California Trout ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Editor’s Note: The newsletter is published monthly and distributed free to anyone who subscribes to it. If you wish to subscribe, contact the editor. Contributions (articles, letters, pictures, event notices, comics, recipes, etc. ), anything & everything is encouraged and most welcome. Have you been fishing lately? Do you have some pictures you want to share with the club? Note: There’s a new editor... Our sincerest thanks to Tom Pelikan for doing such a great job with the newsletter for so long. But lately, Tom hasn’t had the time he would like to dedicate to this, so he asked for some help. New comer to the club, me, having joined just this past January at the annual dinner, volunteered. I enjoy doing this sort of thing, and as you can see, I’ve done a bunch of stuff with it already. Submit contributions to the new newsletter editor @… Michael Matica 565 Sugarloaf Road Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Phone: 831-461-0260 bugchucker58@gmail.com Please try to submit your information by the 20th of the month preceding the publication month. I’ll try to get everything into the newsletter, even if I get it after the 20th, but the sooner I get it the more likely it is to make it into the next edition. ********************************************************************************* The club’s web site update: The web site is also being updated, and there is a new web-‘rookie’ , yours truly. Tom has done a great job for a long time and needed a break, so I agreed to take this on too. I only hope I can keep up with the standards that Tom has set before me. I hope you all like what I’ve done. I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Any and all feedback is most welcome. And, if you have any ideas for other things you would like to see on the club web site, please let me know. I’ll admit in advance though that I am by no means a web developer guru. I am using a simple program with my Mac that more or less builds all the code for me, and the program is limited in what is it capable of doing. The location may be moving, more on that later. The original site is also still active, but it won’t get many if any updates after this. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Upcoming Calendar of Events: May 5 Monthly General Meeting (Our VP will be presenting a program on CA Heritage Trout) June 2 Monthly General Meeting (tentatively, a DVD on Bass fishing, featuring Ken Hanley and Jay Murakoshi) July 7 Monthly General Meeting ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* What was that ‘skin’ I saw on the raffle table at the last meeting? Answer: It was a fleece. The fleece is sort of a tradition with our club. Throughout the year, we place flies on it which are raffled off at the annual dinner in January. Do you tie your own flies, consider bringing some to the meeting and donating them. It’s fun to watch the collection of flies increase over the coarse of the year leading up to the annual dinner. Have some extras? Feel really generous? How about doing 2 nice things? Visit Geoff Malloway at Central Coast FlyFishing, buy a fly (or 2, 3, 5… ) and donate them to the fleece. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* The MPFC Club Monthly Meeting: When: The Monterey Peninsula Flycasters Club (MPFC) meets the 1st Tuesday of every month at 7PM. Where: The meetings are held at the Waste Water Management Facility located at: 3945 Rio Road Carmel, CA 93923 Directions: Coming down Highway 1, turn left onto Rio Road, proceed past the shopping centers and the post office. The building is about one half block past the Post Office and Rancho Road. The driveway is on the left and the parking lot is in the rear. See the map below. What goes on at the meeting? We have presenters when the club budget allows. At the April meeting we had an awesome program about fishing in the surf presented by Robert Ketley. We also have a monthly raffle where you could win flies, fly lines, articles of clothing, leaders, tippet materials, etc, and sometimes even a brand new fly rod (one can never have enough fly rods!, I know I can’t). The money collected from the raffle is used to cover club expenses such as program speakers, and future raffle prizes...so buy lots of raffle tickets and support the club and help Ed bring in more speakers!. Board of Directors Meeting: The Board of Directors meeting starts at 6:30, 30 minutes prior to the general meeting, every month, at the same location. All members are invited and welcome. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Fishing Reports: A couple of our members, Alan and Bruce, had a good outing at O’Neil Forebay and landed 18 - 20 schoolies. The water was 59 - 66 deg!  All fish were out in the middle at 24 - 28 ft.  The fish would fill the screen from the bottom to top. They had 3 double hookups. The fish were constantly on the move and the searches to locate them again once they moved took between 5 & 20 min. But I didn’t get any pictures from them. ********************************************************************************* Been Fishing? A couple of our members, Alan and Bruce, had a good outing at O’Neil Forebay and landed 18 - 20 schoolies. The water was 59 - 66 deg!  All fish were out in the middle at 24 - 28 ft.  The fish would fill the screen from the bottom to top. They had 3 double hookups. The fish were constantly on the move and the searches to locate them again once they moved took between 5 & 20 min. Sorry, I didn’t get any pictures from them… ********************************************************************************* Ed on the other hand has been fortunate enough to go on several fishing excursions of late. He reports that all were good trips; windy at times, snow at times, but everyone caught fish and had a great time. See Ed’s accounts of 3 recent trips below… The Upper Sac, 14 April 2009 by Ed Kelleher The weather was forecast to be warm with light breezes. Craig had a morning dentist appointment (I booked last minute), so we did not get on the water until just after noon. We fished about thirty miles of the Upper Sac, from south of Dunsmuir to just west of Mount Shasta (city). We had at least one hookup in every run we fished. Craig was walking the walk that he talks in his “Fishing for Trout in California Freestoners” pitch. If we did not get a hookup in ten to fifteen minutes, we were moving. Renee got a hook up on about her third cast. The guide and she both saw the fish, and the guide said it was over 18 inches – it broke her off after about two or three minutes – fishing 4X tippet. She later landed a very nice fish, her first fish on a fly. I landed three throughout the day, largest was more than 18 inches, smallest about 16 inches. Michael also landed three, 16 to 18 inches, but he ha the catch of the day. At about 720 PM, fishing just below Lake Siskiyou, in a significant snow storm, he hooked and landed a beautiful brown trout. All the fishing was done with a strike indicator and two nymphs, large on top, small on bottom. I got one on the big fly, two on the small fly. My biggest ate the small fly. We had snow several times during the afternoon. It was a great day. I continue to recommend Craig for fishing that area. ********************************************************************************* Rancho San Carlos, 23 April 09 by Ed Kelleher Thursday, April 23rd Tom Pelikan and I fished Rancho San Carlos (private water) with John Jordan, a local guide. It was a very fine day. We got on the water at 0900, and I reluctantly quit at 1845.  I had thirty fish to hand, LDRd a few, had a few break me off on 5X, and missed a bunch of half hearted strikes. All the fish but one were over 14 inches, several over 16. The largest was over 18 inches. The one small one was an 8 inch wild fish (adipose fin present), and all but one fish were taken on dry flies. The exception was a fussy 16 incher who succumbed to a Hare and Copper dropper off a #18 GFT. The GFT was very successful.  The fish ate Grey Fuzzy Thing, Orange Humpy, Orange Beetle, Adams,  Baetis Emerger and BWO Emerger flies. Rancho San Carlos is a membership private enclave. There is a rod fee as well as the Guide’s fee, but the cost is still very reasonable. Try mid week. Geoff Malloway at Central Coast Fly Fishing can give you John’s phone number. ********************************************************************************* The Yuba River , 27 April 2009 by Ed Kelleher Following the conclusion of the Sacramento Valley Highland games, three of the Culann's Hounds band members and I went and fished the Yuba River. Sunday evening we got to the Highway 20 bridge just at dusk, shortly after 8 PM, No  fish were caught, although something did break me off very cleanly about 8:45. I was fishing a #10 Parachute Adams in hopes of being able to see it. Fished just downstream of the bridge, river left until we couldn't see. Monday we bopped up to Downieville and on to Union Gap CG. They DO check to make sure you have paid if you park in the CG. I went 4 to hand for 8 rises and 6 hook ups. They were all ten inches or smaller, except the ones I didn't land or the ones I didn't hook. Steve, the Fiddler caught "a bunch, mostly dinks" but somehow, no one ever saw him even with a fish on. Mine took a big stonefly nymph (1) or a Grey Fuzzy Thing #12 (7). Steve reports that his were evenly split between a medium stonefly nymph, and a Grey Fuzzy Thing. Michael and the Barbarian Princess caught no fish, although they had a good time, and made lunch for Steve and I. Renee continues to work on her casting form..... We got back to San Francisco about 2 AM, tired but content. Slainte' Ed Kelleher Here’s a great shot of Ed with a nice hen from the Upper Sac!  ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Lower Sac Fishout Update: The fall Lower Sac River trip scheduled for October 26, 27 & 28 is now filled!  9 guides are reserved for each of three days.  Some new members filled the last spots.  Thanks to all for the effort.  Alan plans to have a casting/terminology event at the veterans park later this summer.  Alan says it's always fun to see him cast, or try to! haha... :) ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Please support our local fly shop! See/visit Geoff Malloway @  Central Coast Fly Fishing 7172 Carmel Valley Road Carmel, CA  93923 (831) 626-6586 info@centralcoastflyfishing.com Stop by and see and talk to Geoff. He’s got a great shop and is always willing to help with whatever your needs might be. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* For Sale / Trade / Donate: Have something to sell, trade/swap? Bring it to the meeting! & Let the editor know… He’ll get a notice into the newsletter to inform others… ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Send questions, comments, information requests, corrections, concerns, everything & anything to the new rookie newsletter editor: Michael Matica bugchucker58@gmail.com http://www.carmelriverwatershed.org/crsa.htmlhttp://www.mbstp.org/http://www.calsport.org/http://www.caltrout.org/mailto:bugchucker58@gmail.com?subject=MPFC%20Newslettermailto:bugchucker58@gmail.comhttp://tpelikan.tripod.com/http://www.centralcoastflyfishing.comhttp://www.centralcoastflyfishing.com/http://www.centralcoastflyfishing.com/mailto:info@centralcoastflyfishing.commailto:bugchucker58@gmail.comhttp://www.centralcoastflyfishing.com/shapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10shapeimage_3_link_11shapeimage_3_link_12
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