Central Oregon VOL. 42 | NUMBER 4 | APRIL 2018 Flyfisher President’s Message Welcome Spring! Hope everyone is getting out and . Even though we have many great year round fishing opportunities they seem to blossom in the spring. Watch 1Contents PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE the outings calendar for upcoming opportunities. 2 OUTINGS Don’t forget the Annual COF Banquet, Saturday April Annual Crooked River Cleanup Long Hollow Ranch 14th, at the River House Convention Center. Tom The Lower “Sac” Outing Wideman and his team have put together another great Captain Caddis Crappie event that not only celebrates our club, but is also our British Columbia Trip largest fundraiser of the year. Hope to see everyone there! 5 NEXT CAST FLYFISHERS We owe a huge shout out to Ron Giaier for his leadership Expo Success in the annual Pond at the Sportsman’s Show. This is Upcoming Activities World Youth Champion our second largest fundraiser each year. And thanks to all who volunteered to net fish, set up, or contributed flies. 6 MEMBERSHIP This takes a volunteer commitment of about 60 people to 7 COF BOARD MEMBERS man all the shifts, so we really appreciate your volunteering. 8 TYER’S CORNER Speaking of flies, our annual winter classes Stalcup’s CDC Loop Wing Emerger – March Brown wrapped up at the end of March. Thanks are in order to John Kreft and his band of helpers that allow the club 9 LIBRARY to sponsor this event! Local and regional experts teach 9 EDUCATION from 15-25 members’ new patterns, techniques, and tying Classes materials each week. If you are interested in improving Tour of PGE Lake Billy Chinook Winter Fly Tying your tying skills, and have a lot of fun meeting other club members, plan on attending next winter. 10 WILD WOMEN OF THE WATER Please join me in extending a warm welcome to our 10 OTHER NEWS Kokanee Karnival Newsletter Designer, Kelly Alexander. She stepped in Redmond Sportsman Show to take over this function beginning with last month’s USA National Fly Fishing newsletter. Welcome aboard and thank you Kelly! Team Championships Yellowstone National Park April is also a big month for the Kokanee Karnival. This Recording Volunteer Hours program is the only one in the country: and a major 12 COF BANQUET NEWS cornerstone of the club’s mission to educate our local student community in ecology, stream management, and 12 CLASSIFIEDS conservation. I volunteered last year and had a great time. 12 APRIL ROD RAFFLE Please contact Frank Turek to volunteer. 13 COF VOLUNTEERISM See you at the Banquet! “Everyone should believe in something: I believe I’ll go facebook.com/CentralOregonFlyfishersClub fishing” Henry David Thoreau linkedin.com/company/central-oregon-flyfishers - Allen Caudle

An Active Member Club GENERAL MEETING: APRIL 18 | 7:00 P.M. GENERAL MEETING | BEND SENIOR CENTER, 1600 S.E. REED MARKET ROAD, BEND

SAY TO yesNEW ADVENTURES APRIL 07 PRINEVILLE, OR CROOKED RIVER CLEANUP Members pick up litter along a 7 mile segment of the Crooked River. A fun event and a great way to meet COF members. PETE MARTIN

MAY ohn Smeraglio, owner of building. John was so inspired by 12 JDeschutes Canyon Fly Shop this, he decided to build his own. SISTERS, OR will be speaking to the club on After completing the project, he LONG HOLLOW RANCH his Nymph for Fish two of the ranch reservoirs stocked with spent most of the remaining spring Rainbow trout and another has an abundance of Trout. In his presentation you will learning to cast. By late summer, he Large Mouth Bass. learn to: RON KAYE caught his first Trout on the rod he • Read and identify water types built, a tapered leader he made, and a 18-2 1 for nymph fishing fly he tied. SACRAMENTO, CA • Identify and match an From that day forward his passion LOWER SACRAMENTO TRIP 50 miles of river! Bring your drift boat or hire appropriate fly pattern grew rapidly as he devoted himself a guide for the ultimate experience with other • Rig up a single or multi-nymph to building better rods, tying better COF members on this blue ribbon . MIKE MCCLEAN system flies, and designing better hand • Cast & mend with techniques tied tapered leaders. All of these that reduce tangling. elements gave him positive results JUNE • Present nymphs in a manner by allowing John to achieve the best 8-10 that imitates it’s natural presentation possible. PRINEVILLE behavior. In 1985, John moved from CAPTAIN CADDIS CRAPPIE Annual Capt’ Caddis Crappie on-a-fly • Adapt to fishing nymphs at Portland to Maupin Oregon to Challenge at the Prineville Reservoir Resort. different water depths opened a Fly Shop and Guide BETSY John Smeraglio, a native Service, which is of course is on 17-26 Oregonian, born and raised in the Deschutes River. He has owned BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Portland, remembers catching and operated the business for 32 KAMLOOPS his first Red Side Trout on the years. Through the years, he has Annual lake fishing trip to the lakes in the Ka- maloops ares. Enjoy 8 days of fishing! Deschutes River when he was six been quoted in books, featured in LEE ANN ROSS years old. A friend of the family magazine articles, and has teamed introduced John to fly fishing when TO SIGN UP OR FOR MORE INFO EMAIL: up with Rick Hafele to produce a [email protected] he showed him a fly rod he was series of fly fishing DVD’s.

2 The Central Oregon Flyfisher | APRIL 2018 the pups trying to find the toads! We After the litter pickup lunch will found many large fish, some over 20 be provided back at Big Bend by inches but most between 10-15 as an COF. Please RSVP, pcmartin@ average. We nymphed, threw stream- bendbroadband.com, so we bring ers and dries. They all worked. Small the right amount of hot dogs, ham- size bugs pretty much ruled the burgers, and water. Let me know day, so be ready if you go for some if you need a vegetarian meal. Not Owyhee type midge fishing. We flew to be missed afterwards are Terri to Albuquerque and drove to Navajo Grimm’s Dutch oven deserts. Dam where we were based. Another Bring your gloves and remember suggestion is to fly to Durango, do your fishing gear for the afternoon. some fishing there, and go down to – PETER MARTIN the San Juan for the day , only a 60 [email protected] mile drive. Either way, add this to your “Gotta get out of Oregon” in Dean McNaught (left) with Ron Kaye (right). the Winter options. - RON KAYE, OUTINGS DIRECTOR Flying and Fishing - A Winter trip to the San Juan River OUTINGS The San Juan River in New Mexi- to thank them for making the camp co is rated one of the top 10 winter area available. We donate $10 a head trout rivers, and it did not disappoint. per night. Last time I ran this trip Long Hollow Ranch I had the pleasure of fishing it with most folks did not pay. If you don’t May 12 three fellow COF members ( Tim plan on helping to pay for the camp- Long Hollow Ranch Rainbow Trout Quinton, Gary Stock, Dean Mc- ground, please don’t come. fly fishing is a great way to spend Naught) in early February. We all – LEE ANN ROSS some relaxing time. Two of the ranch had guides the first 2 days. Tim and [email protected] reservoirs are stocked with Rainbow Gary were with local legend Andy trout and another has an abun- Kim doing a walk and wade in the dance of primarily Large Mouth upper Texas Hole area. Dean and I Annual Crooked Bass. Here’s an opportunity to fish had a guide out of Durango; Will a couple of private and local well Blanchard from Animas Valley An- River Cleanup Saturday, April 7th. Meet stocked lakes. Fishing from 9:00 am glers. Will took us to the lower sec- to 5:00 pm. Limited to the first 10 tion with his drift boat. He told us at 10:00 a.m., Big Bend Campground email responses. Access provided thru we would find fewer but bigger fish The Fly Fishers Place. Cost is $150 and we had no issues with that. The By request the meeting time is now each person, please bring your lunch. river in general was off color so sight 10:00 a.m. at the Big Bend Camp- Respond via email to Ron to secure fishing was not an option. Looking ground to allow your quick visit to your spot. for risers was and we saw plenty Fly and Field’s sale. over the 5 days. For days 3-5 we all This is our big annual cleanup – RON KAYE fished together walking and wading from Bowman Dam downstream [email protected] applying the knowledge from our along 7 miles of the Crooked River. guided days. Unfortunately they We will cover the area from the river recently dropped 17,000 rainbows to along the highway, including all in the upper river, that may be an campground and picnic areas, so this asset in a year or two? But for now takes a large turnout to cleanup this we found ourselves weeding through large area.

APRIL 2018 | The Central Oregon Flyfisher 3 on the interest from the club a potluck. You’ll need a , members. The Best Western boat, pontoon boat, kayak or other Hilltop is a nice and reasonable watercraft plus fishing gear. place to stay if you’re not camping. - BETSY It provides good meeting place for (541) 389-4372 end of the day fish tales! This is a great way to meet fellow COF members and perhaps a future fish- British Columbia Trip Lower “Sac” Outing ing buddy? Let’s see if we can make June 17-26 May 18-21 these 2 days of fishing happen! The club is considering hosting our Just a 5 hour drive from Bend to - MIKE MCCLEAN annual lake fishing trip to the lakes Redding, California. That’s where [email protected] in the Kamloops area of British Co- you’ll find 50 miles of river with lumbia. We have tentatively sched- wild rainbows and fishing from the uled the trip for June 17 to 26, 2018. boat. Capt’ Caddis Crappie June 17 and 26 would be travel days Hire a guide or bring your drift June 8-10 with June 18-25 for eight days of boat and experience. Controlled Challenge will be held on June 9 fishing. British Columbia offers an water flows and a very temperate at the Prineville Reservoir Resort. eight day non resident license. We climate make the Lower Sac a If you want to camp we will be will miss the June monthly meet- . We invite you there June 8-10. We will have a fish ing as we need to time the trip so to join leader Mike McClean on fry and pot luck on the 9th. Why that we are out of the camping area this COF outing. fish for crappie? Because it’s FUN! before the July 1 weekend which is Logistics will be solidified based After fishing all day, we’ll gather for the big Canada Day (think July 4th) vacation weekend. The club has a trailer with a full set of kitchen equipment, dining tents and tables. Breakfast and dinner cooking duties are shared by the participants with each person cook- ing a meal or two depending on how many folks come on the trip. Each person provides his or her own lunch. We will camp at Tunkwa Lake which is about a 12 hour drive straight up highway 97. If you are interested in this trip, please go to the COF website and read the two presentations on the trip which you can find under the “news- letters/presentation” button on the website. Please read all the informa- tion, as it should answer 95% of your questions. If you are interested in the trip and you can meet the conditions for participation laid out in the two documents, please send me an email and I will put you on a list. – LEE ANN ROSS [email protected]

4 The Central Oregon Flyfisher | APRIL 2018 Anders Korman & John Kreft

Branson Broderick Forrest Franklin Joey Pattee

Joe Grover Isaac Korman & John Kreft Kincaid Smeltzer

NEXT CAST FLYFISHERS UPCOMING ACTIVITIES: online catalog. This camp is limited EXPO SUCCESS to 12 participants and fills up fast! Our Next Cast Flyfishers repre- CROOKED RIVER CLEAN-UP— COF membership is not required! sented at the NW Expo and did a APRIL 7, 2018 The Next Cast Flyfishers program terrific job. Each of them demon- BIG BEND CAMPGROUND, CROOKED RIVER provides opportunities and coordi- strated tying a fly of their choice. Join COF members for the annual nates activities for young fly anglers They tied beautiful flies that any of river and campground clean-up and in the area. We offer fly fishing us would be happy to have in our fly barbeque. If the water level is good, instruction through classroom activ- box! They also bee-lined to several we will fish once the work is done! ities, fly fishing summer camps, on- of the vendor booths to purchase Mark your calendars, see details in going COF events, and individually tying materials. A great time for our separate newsletter article. through mentorship and teaching. avid fly fishers! Providing these opportunities, Thank you to Pete Martin and 3-DAY FLY FISHING CAMP— young anglers will be exposed to fly John Kreft who helped them out JUNE 18, 19, & 20, 2018 fishing and increase their interest and transporting the lamps and a couple SHEVLIN POND level of involvement. of vises to use tying. These two have Please contact me directly if you This camp is for all beginners have questions. volunteered numerous hours to help and newer fly fishers (age 10-14), prepare our young tyers improve you don’t have to be a Next Cast - KAREN KREFT, 503-409-0148 their techniques! member to sign up! Registration is [email protected] through Bend Parks & Recreation

APRIL 2018 | The Central Oregon Flyfisher 5 MEMBERSHIP

Please reach out to our new folks at our next meeting.

Joey Pattee (second from right) Brain Bubak – Sisters with teammates at BC competition Jane Bubak – Sisters World Youth Fly Fish- as he continues to practice his fishing Robert Carrick – Bend skills locally and throughout the US. ing Championships, He has attended clinics specifically Jeff Conrad – Bend Myczkowce, Poland for the US Teams, and participated Kathy Geary – Bend in the NALSFFC Cup. A prestigious Joey Pattee of Bend, has been invited Pat Geary – Bend to participate at the World Youth Fly loch-style completion held in British Fishing Championships in Poland. Columbia. Norman Harrell – Bend As a member of the US Youth Fly On May 31-June 1 & 2, Joey, along Diane Harrell – Bend Fishing Team, Joey has been chosen with Isaac and Anders Korman, Benjamin Moser – Bend as one of the five team members also Next Cast members, will be representing the US Team at the World participating in the US National Fly Clifford Nelson – Bend Championships. Fishing Team Championships being Randy Oswald – Redmond The Championships will be held held near Bend. The competition will Melissa Swearingen - Bend August 6-12 and will include river include the Upper Deschutes along and lake sectors. Most of the expected with Lava, South Twin, and Crane fish will be Brown Trout, along with Prairie Lakes. If you have any questions about Grayling, Whitefish, Pike, Chub and All of these young anglers have membership, please contact Sue Coyle. spectacular Instagram accounts and some local species of Huchen, Dace - SUE COYLE share many fish pictures! Check them and Ide. [email protected] You may see Joey on a local river out! 541-318-1616

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6 The Central Oregon Flyfisher | APRIL 2018 President allen caudle A FLY SHOP [email protected] UNLIKE ANY OTHER. Treasurer renee schindele Fly Fishing - Hunting - Growler Fills [email protected] Secretary corol ann cary [email protected] Programs art agnew 541 548 1503 [email protected] finandfire.com Director peter martin [email protected] Outings ron kaye [email protected] Next Cast Flyfishers karen kreft [email protected] Wild Women of the Water kari schoessler [email protected] Membership susan coyle [email protected] Education debbie norton [email protected] Kokanee Karnival frank turek [email protected] PAYNE FLY SHOP Banquet tom wideman [email protected] E.F. PAYNE FLY RODS Director dalton miller-jones [email protected] AMERICAN MADE SINCE 1876 Past President lee ann ross [email protected] 490 NE BUTLER MARKET ROAD., SUITE 100 BEND, OR 97701 (541) 549-1544 Directors At Large mary ann dozer, warren snyder, fred cholick Advertising mike shadrach, 541-678-5717 Social Media Get away from it all molly vernarecci [email protected]

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APRIL 2018 | The Central Oregon Flyfisher 7 TYER’S CORNER

STALCUP’S CDC LOOP WING EMERGER – MARCH BROWN

By the time you read the April newsletter, the March Materials: Brown mayflies should have been out and hopefully Hook: Daiichi 1160, size 14 - 12 the fish are keying on them. I plan to hit the Middle Thread: 8/0 brown Deschutes this month, but other local waters should Tail: Partridge have March Brown’s as well. This is the first of the larg- Body: March brown goose biot er mayflies trout will see in the coming months and an Wings: 2 Brown or tan CDC feathers emerger or dry fly is a lot of fun to fish. Thorax: Superfine March Brown dubbing Other effective fly patterns to have in your fly box include the RiverKeeper Soft Hackle Cripple, Sparkle Dun, Comparadun, , and a classic Tying Instructions: Partridge & Orange Soft Hackle. You can find the fly 1. Begin thread on hook and continue part way around pattern sheets for these flies on my website. bend. This fly gives you another option for the emerger 2. Tie in tail with 3 to 4 thread wraps and trim butts phase of the March Brown mayfly. where thorax begins. If you’ve never heard of Shane Stalcup, he was a 3. Tie in goose biot with notch towards the front and talented and creative who passed away too early. tie in tip first, creating a furled body. You can still see him tie flies thanks to COF’s John 4. Wrap thread forward over biot tip and partridge butts Sherry YouTube channel – Netknots Fly Tying. Here to create a smooth underbody. is a link to Shane tying this fly (https://youtu.be/ Use thread to create a tapered body. Position thread at Skct0ZghXjI). thorax. I plan to have a few of these flies in my fly box. How 5. Wrap biot forward. Option: Apply Zap-a- Gap before about you? wrapping biot for extra strength. Enjoy…go fish! 6. Secure biot with thread wraps. 7. Select 2 CDC feathers and even tips. - JOHN KREFT RIVERKEEPER FLIES (www.johnkreft.com)

8 The Central Oregon Flyfisher | APRIL 2018 LIBRARY EDUCATION The SWW re-establishes the con- nection for anadromous Steelhead, Casting Classes Chinook and Sockeye Salmon April 11 & 17 with JEFF PERRIN, between the ocean and 250 stream owner/guide of Fly Fisher’s Place miles of habitat in the Upper De- in Sister’s. Feedback from members schutes Basin. Annually, they collect attending these classes, say that Jeff is between 37,000 and 262,000 smolts not only a master caster, he is an out- at the SWW transporting them to standing teacher!! Jeff has graciously the lower Deschutes River to con- agreed to do 2 casting classes: tinue their downstream migration. 1. BEGINNER CLASS – April Stay tuned for date and time. 11th Jeff will cover Basic Plane, Arc, Timing & Tempo and teach A Woman’s No Nonsense Guide the Pick up and Lay down, False Winter Fly Tying to Fly Fishing Favorite Waters by Cast and Roll Cast. Lots of This year’s Winter Fly Tying has Yvonne Graham R.N. M.PH. individual attention! been a huge success. As I write this 2. ADVANCED SKILLS CLASS article, we’ve averaged 26 tyers for Women Want To Know: Where are – April 17th This class will start every class this year. the special places women like to fly by demonstrating how different A special thanks to Pete Mar- fish? In this guide, top female fly planes are used for different tin who helped me again this year fishing guides, outfitters, tiers, and results, off shoulder casts, manage when I wasn’t in town. I enthusiasts reveal their favorite wa- backhand casts, reach mending really appreciate his help. ters. With this guide you will quickly and parachute casts, and more. Our classes wouldn’t be successful absorb essential information and It’s a slightly different approach without our instructors. A thank be able to find a new and favorite than previous skills class. you goes out to Jeff Perin, Mike place to fly fish. Forty-five of the Some of us have been casting for Telford, Phil Fischer, Jerry Criss, top women fly fishing experts reveal decades, but I guarantee you will Sherry Steele, Bill Seitz, Wes Wada, their favorite waters. From scenic learn something critically important Chris Williams (Boise, ID), Pete spring creeks in the East, big trout from Jeff!! Martin, and Peter Bowers. waters in the Rockies to exciting FEE: $10 In Advance Lastly, I’d like to thank Peter Baja; all described from the female To Sign Up send an email to Bowers of The Patient Angler, Jeff perspective. Includes 42 site loca- Dalton Miller-Jones Perin of The Flyfisher’s Place, and tions throughout North America. Paul from Fin & Fire for providing - DALTON MILLER-JONES If you are a club member and discounts for our fly tying materials. [email protected] would like to peruse the library and/ Their generosity helps tremendous- or check out one of our books, just ly with the financial aspect of con- look for the rolling bookcase at the Tour of PGE Lake ducting our classes. When you stop club’s general meeting. The librar- Billy Chinook by their shops, be sure to say thanks! ian arrives at the meeting early to Now, go out and fish all the flies give members extra time to look for Anadromous Fish you tied in class! books before the meeting starts. Sign Migration Facilities - JOHN KREFT in on our website https://coflyfish- We are trying to arrange another RIVERKEEPER FLIES ers.wildapricot.org, click on Mem- guided tour to the PGE & Warm bers Area and select Library to see Spring facilities at Round Butte a list of our books. If you have any and Regulating Dams on Lake Billy questions or comments, feel free to Chinook and the Deschutes River. email Helen. This field trip shows the Selective - HELEN GUERRERO-RANDALL Water Withdrawal facility (SWW). [email protected]

APRIL 2018 | The Central Oregon Flyfisher 9 RIGGING OPTIONS FOR MOVING WATER AND LAKES THURSDAY, APRIL 19TH - 6:00-8:00 - BEND SENIOR CENTER Come join MaryAnn and your Wild Women friends for an educational night of learning the many ways of rigging your line and flies for differ- ent situations. If you plan to attend to learn and/or help, please email Mary Ann at flyfishingpursuits@ WILD WOMEN OF THE WATER Wild Women will converge on the gmail.com. Of course, we will have treats to share. Our Wild Women of the Water Crooked River to pull it all together. Flyfishing 101 class is going We hope the fish will cooperate! - KARI SCHOESSLER fantastically well. Be ready to see And the weather. Please let Kari [email protected] 10 more enthusiastic lady flyfishers know if you can join us. out on our local waters. Big thanks Thank you to Chris and Cairn at to Dave and Fly & Field, MaryAnn the Bend Fly Shop for hosting the OTHER NEWS and Flyfishers Place and Tye and Tom Wild Women at their Fly Shop Hop. and Confluence for their expertise Chris shared his pix of flyfishing Kokanee Karnival - at passing along their passion and the coast for steelhead. The Bend Spring Clinic flyfishing skills. They are all amazing!! Fly Shop is a wonderful shop for all I want to thank all of you who On April 8, our newbies and our things fishy! Check them out behind The Sparrow Bakery on Scott Street. have volunteered for the Kokanee Karnival Spring Clinic. Right now we are still short of volunteers. If you want to volunteer please contact me at (541) 381- 7507 or [email protected] . The dates of the Spring Clinic are April 16, 17, 19, 20 and April 23 and 24. We have no activities on Wed April 18. We have 12 classes in the program and two classes attend each day. We usually arrive at around 8:30 am to set up for the day and the students arrive between 9 and 9:30. They usually leave between LIND | WHITE GROUP 1:30 and 2. We clean up and are done by 3. Yancy Lind Eric White If you just want to see what we Financial Planning & &Investment Management do with the students feel free to visit us at Aspen Hall in Shevlin Park. We can always use extra hands after lunch when the students get to go trout fishing in Shevlin Pond. Lunch is provided for all students PROUD SUPPORTERS OF COF and volunteers. After lunch the 541-312-6821 | [email protected] students are divided into small

10 The Central Oregon Flyfisher | APRIL 2018 groups and get to fish in Shevlin I think everyone really enjoyed it be able to row. Pond. The volunteers lead small and learned a lot. There will be 60 Approximately 50 volunteers groups of students to help them fish competitors. a day will be needed for varies for trout. If they catch a trout they We will supply lunch each day positions including controllers, get a First Fish Certificate and if as a volunteer and will be entered sector judges, group organizers, gear they want, their cleaned fish to take to win some of the amazing items; shutelers, and other misc. duties. home. we are giving away at the Closing Volunteer signups will open early Thanks for your help with the Ceremony at the Riverhouse February at flycomps.com. If you Spring Angling Clinic Convention Center. Food will be need any further information, please - FRANK TUREK provided at the Closing Ceremony. contact Scott Robertson. [email protected] Schedule: - SCOTT ROBERTSON, 541-410-3500 Wednesday, May 30, 2018: [email protected]. Orientation. Evening (Time TBD) at Riverhouse. Thursday, May 31, 2018: Session 1: 8-12pm Session 2: 2-6pm Friday, June 1, 2018: Session 3: 8-12pm Session 4: 2-6pm Saturday, June 2, 2018: Session 5: 8-12pm Yellowstone National Closing Dinner & Ceremony at Park Bans Felt Soles the Riverhouse Hotel (Free to Aquatic invasive species (AIS) volunteers): 6 - 10pm could have devastating ecological, • Acknowledgement of economic, and recreational impacts volunteers on Yellowstone National Park. • Guest speakers They are costly to manage and • Volunteer give always! extremely difficult to eradicate. • Announcement of new Redmond Sportsman Due to the urgent need to prevent National Team Show - Kid’s Trout these destructive species from • Announcement of World entering the park, felt sole Pond Team going to Worlds and boots worn by anglers will be A very BIG THANK YOU to all Venues: bannedstarting in 2018. the members that volunteered for Crane Prairie - Loch Style Venue this years’ show. The club raised - Motor Boat $1,500 from the event and and we South Twin - Loch Style Venue Recording Volunteer saw many happy faces! - Row Boat Hours Lava Lake - Loch Style Venue Dick Olson tracks the hours that USA National Fly - Motor Boat COF volunteers put in each year. Fishing Team Event Upper Deschutes This data is used to bolster our - Above Crane Prairie The 2018 Nationals will be request for grants for KK, Next Upper Deschutes held in Bend. Scott and Sarah Cast and environmental activities. - Below Benham Falls Robertson will be managing the For example, last year we received event and they will be looking for Loch Style venues will be from a grant from the Oregon Council volunteers to help out. COF has a boat. One controller per boat, and the IFFF to support the new helped out at previous events and Controllers on South Twin need to kids pond at Camp Sherman.

APRIL 2018 | The Central Oregon Flyfisher 11 Volunteer hours for KK, Next COF BANQUET NEWS Cast and the kids trout pond at the Redmond show are handled by 2018 COF Fundraising the organizer. You don’t need to Banquet & Raffle report those hours. It’s the hours Riverhouse Convention Center that you might be putting in say April 14, 2018 organizing a class (think rod and Banquet Registration is Open! WIN net building), helping ODFW with Check out the banquet flyer in this pit tagging, volunteering at the month’s newsletter then go to cof- Albany fly fishing fair, helping with ME! lyfishers.org to register. Your pay- the banquet, working on the raffle ment can be made via PayPal, credit and such that is not captured. If card, or mail your check to COF you have any unrecorded volunteer Banquet, P.O. Box 1126, Bend, OR hours for 2018, would you please 97709. APRIL send that information to Dick Registering online correctly enters Olson at [email protected]. ROD all your information: name, guest, Many thanks for all for work. RAFFLE meal choices, bucket raffle tickets advance order, and date registered Charles Schillinsky is Trout Bum Fly Swap (for the early bird drawing) into a building a rod for the Don’t miss this year’s Trout Bum Fly handy spreadsheet for the registra- Annual Banquet that Swap at Fly and Field Outfitters on tion crew. will also serve as the April 7th and 8th . This is monthly rod raffle. the local angler’s opportunity CLASSIFIEDS This month’s raffle to either find a new home for will be a Dan Craft unwanted items or score amazing FOR SALE: NEW Beulah Guide Series, 8’ 6”, 4 wt., 4-piece Rod, FT blank that is a deals. From 8am till 5pm on both nine foot, 4 piece, days they will have everything from with/two tips, rod sock, and tube, medium-fast action, fast 4 weight. This a rods and reels to waders, high quality blank recovery. $150, Peter Martin, boots, packs, flies, fly tying and with top quality [email protected], much more. Please do not arrive components used in 541-388- 8956, This is a NEW rod, before 8am either day. Often its’ construction. items are priced differently for never fished, cast once in my front Saturday and Sunday, the second yard Retails for $580. day being cheaper. They will MEMBERS: Got a fishing related Purchase your raffle begin accepting your used and item to sell? Ads are free and run for ticket(s) at the next unwanted gear Monday the 2 nd one newsletter. If the COF meeting. Tickets and will cut off taking in item is not sold the ad can be cost $10 each, no limit equipment by 5:00pm on Friday. resubmitted. of number that can be - [email protected] purchased. All proceeds go to benefit the club and members. “I think anyone would be more than pleased to win this rod.” - CHARLES SCHILLINSKY

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Central OregonVolunteerism Flyfishers

ongratulations! Last year, 137 COF volunteers worked 4,891 hours and traveled 29,502 miles to Csupport our many events. Our 2017 performance equaled 2012, when we hosted the USA Fly Fishing Team National Competition and not far behind the record set in 2015 hosting the 50 th anniversary IFFF celebration in 2015. Our membership is growing rapidly so we have lots of new members who may wish to join in. Please volunteer; you’ll enjoy the experience. Volunteer records can be very important when we apply for grants to maintain or improve programs like Kokanee Karnival. Such records provide a solid measure of performance for donors to consider when awarding grants, and these numbers can have real impact. These numbers are included in the letter that requests donations for items raffled atthe annual COF Banquet – the ones you win with a successful bid. We’ve also used these records in the past to award a prize to each member who for the first time volunteers at least 30 hours in a year – a one-time award per volunteer. This year our Board has decided to give awards to those who gives 30 hours every year, not just once! I need your help to capture all our volunteer data this year. More and more members are volunteering, so let’s keep up the good work. Here are some recent year’s results: YEAR HOURS MILES # OF VOLUNTEERS 2012 4,903 27,040 144 2013 3,006 21,745 122 2014 4,091 19,037 113 2015 6,164 32,071 140 2016 4,484 28,502 134 2017 4,891 29,998 137 If there’s a volunteer sign-in sheet at an event, please sign in and enter your hours (including travel time) and round-trip miles. The event coordinator sends the sign-in sheet to me for recording. If you’re a coordinator, please include your preparation time and mileage on behalf of the event. If there’s no sign-in sheet, or if you forget to sign-in at a volunteer event, just email the following information to me at [email protected]: Your Name, Event Name, Event Date, Hours and Miles traveled (round trip). Or just write a note and give it me at a meeting or call me at 541-383- 4412. Thank you again. Your efforts really do make a difference. - DICK OLSON

APRIL 2018 | The Central Oregon Flyfisher 13 APRIL 2018 UPSTREAM EVENTS DATE TIME ACTIVITY LOCATION CONTACT April 5 6:30 PM COF Board Meeting Environmental Center April 7 10:00 AM Crooked River Cleanup Big Bend Campground Pete Martin April 7 & 8 8:00 AM Trout Bum Fly Sap Fly and Filed Outfitters April 8 Wild Women Outings Crooked River Kari Schoessler April 14 5:30 PM 2018 COF Annual Banquet & Fundraiser Riverhouse Convention Center 503-330-5505 April 18 7:00 PM COF Meeting Bend Senior Center April 19 6:00 PM Wild Women Rigging Class Bend Senior Center Kari Schoessler April 26 Lake In the Dunes (Full) In the Future DATE TIME ACTIVITY LOCATION CONTACT May 12 9:00 AM Long Hollow Ranch Sisters, Oregon Ron Kaye May 18–20 Sandy River Spey Clave OxBow Park, Sandy Oregon May 18–21 The Lower Sacramento Trip Mike McClean May 30 - June 1 USA National Fly Fishing Team Event June 8-10 Captain Caddis Crappie Prineville Reservoir Resort Betsy: (541) 389-4372 June 17-26 British Columbia Trip Lee Ann Ross June 18-20 3-Day Kids Fly Fishing Camp Shevlin Pond [email protected] June 29-July 1 East Lake, 2-Nights, BBQ Eric Steele

Central Oregon Flyfishers PO Box 1126 Bend, Oregon 97709