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had two empty rows for more flies! I’d watch the fly President’s Message drift through rocks, riffles and runs and the world would drop away. And, icing on the cake, I began to By Bill Zuravleff catch for the first time in my life. The special regulations encouraged keeping , and with a less-than-gourmet freeze-dried alternative, It’s Summer, Let’s Fish! I was only too happy to comply.

Ah, summer is here, finally. A note to beginners: Yes, you can do it all with a single 5 or 6 weight flyrod and floating line! Well OK, not all all, but you can bring this rig to 17 out of 20 If you’ve lived for any length of time in California, you fishouts, have the right equipment, *and* catch fish. probably have a set of “personal” favorite holes. For Instead of asking what else do I need to buy, you me, the Rim Fire wiped out a handful of my favorite spots, or might use club members as a great resource for at least made them off-limits until further notice. And, yes, giving advice on what *not* to buy. we are in the midst of a historically severe drought, which

will undoubtedly affect fish populations for years to come. To new and not-so-new club members: The best way But with every crisis comes opportunity - in this case, an to get integrated into the club is to go on a fishout. opportunity to try out some new spots, an opportunity to fish The second best way is to volunteer. Or you can early season in the high country, and late in the season, an combine the two to get a way way better than the best opportunity to wade into spots you’ve never waded into way! If you’ve got questions about the club, or before. concerns, or just want some advice on how to get the

most out of club activities, I invite you to contact me Club member Jyrki Hoisko has already fished Lyle Canyon, high in Yosemite this season. Having essentially six miles of personally at [email protected]. river to himself, he caught the biggest brook trout of his life. (GPS coordinates available!) My next column will have to be submitted from the road. I’m taking a grand road trip this month from Paradoxically, Flycaster activities seem to wane in the Manzanita Lake, to Medicine Lake, to Lava Lake, summer because everyone is out fishing. It just seems that Oregon. Ah, summer.In this Hopefully, issue… I will see you out way. OK, our club meeting attendance wanes; seminar there. activity, classes, classes are on hiatus, but President’s Message, page 1 fishing activities reach a fever pitch. I’m happy to say we Calendar & Club “Code of Ethics”, page 2 have more fishouts than ever this summer, and with such a June Program – Andrew Harris, page 3 great variety – lakes, rivers, high-altitude streams, salt Upcoming Program Schedule, page 3 water, out-of-state, and out-of-country trips! – You are sure to find something you like. High Sierra Fishouts, pages 4 - 5 COWABUNGA Dude, pages 6 - 7 The club has certainly expanded the methods of Video Library, page 8 I’ve tried and the types of water I’ve fished. And you Truckee River fishout, page 9 definitely learn more when you challenge yourself. Still, I am Gear for sale, page 9 most excited about our upcoming High Sierra trips. Allow me to wax nostalgic about my first trips with a fly rod... Volunteerism, pages 10 - 11 I didn’t have the problem of “which subset of my fishing Tier’s Corner, pages 12 – 13 equipment should I bring with me?” I simply brought it all. California Fly Shop Rewards, page 14 And my entire gear ensemble weighed less than a pound! Club Officers and Chairs, page 16 I remember being particularly pleased with myself because I Advertisers, pages 2, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 had dry flies, nymphs *and* streamers in my fly box and still

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FLYLINES is published monthly and FLYCASTERS Calendar distributed free to members of the San Jose FLYCASTERS. June Contributions (articles, letters, event 5 – Board Meeting – 7:00pm notices, etc.) are encouraged and 7 - Breakfast Gathering – 8:00am, Holder’s Country Inn, Cupertino. welcome.

7 – Casting Ponds cleanup – 8:00am – Los Gatos Creek Park Deadline for contributions is the 20th 9 - Club meeting – Doors open 6:20pm, meeting starts at 7:15pm. of the month preceding the Andrew Harris – The NEW Pit River publication month 13 – 15 Fishout – East Walker River – Maryann Peters, Dan Romani (i.e. Feb. 20th for the March issue.) 19 – 22 Fishout – Manzanita Lake – Wade Goertz/Dave Pellone Submit contributions to 19 - Veterans First Fly Tying Event – 10:30am – 12:00pm, 80 Great Oaks Blvd., FLYLINES editor, San Jose Wade Goertz via e-mail at 19 – Orvis Seminar – “Carp Techniques” – Orvis Santana Row – 6:00pm [email protected] 26 – 29 Fishout – Lava Lakes, Oregon with SOFF – Bob Meacham Advertising: Contact Dave Pellone July 312 San Mateo Dr. Menlo Park, CA 94025 3 – Board meeting – 7:00pm 650-353-0668 [email protected] 5 – Breakfast Gathering - 8:00am, Holder’s Country Inn, Cupertino. 9 – Club Meeting – Annual Flycasters SWAP MEET – Doors open – 6:30p Advertisers may list non-sale events 10 – 14 Fishout - High Sierra Backpack Trip – Bill Zuravleff / Raphael Reza at no charge. Any opinion expressed 11 – 13 Scout trip to Medicine Lake – contact Bill Mahan for details in FLYLINES is that of the author and 17 – 20 Fishout – Truckee River – Dave Pellone / Wade Goertz does not necessarily represent the view of FLYCASTERS, Inc., its 17 - Veterans First Fly Tying Event – 10:30am – 12:00pm, 80 Great Oaks Blvd., members, officers, directors or the San Jose FLYLINES editor. 17 – Orvis free seminar – 6pm, “Coastal ”, Orvis San Jose, 377 Santana Row, Suite 1040, San Jose 24 – 27 Fishout – Dinkey Lakes backpack trip – Todd Osborn FLYCASTERS Code of Ethics

As a member of Flycasters, I will do all in my power to conduct myself in a manner befitting the traditions of our sport of flyfishing.

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JUNE PROGRAM

ANDREW HARRIS THE “NEW” PIT RIVER

Andrew Harris will take you on a tour of the Pit River watershed in northern California. His presentation covers the Pit River from its source in the South Warner Mountains all the way to Shasta Lake. Andrew will discuss the various numbered reaches of the Pit between the hydroelectric dams and powerhouses, technique and flies for the Pit, and wading safety. Minimum flow requirements have more than doubled in the past few years, so Andrew will discuss how the Pit River fishes differently now with the new flow regime.

Andrew began his guiding career at Clearwater House on Hat Creek in 1997, guiding clients on the rivers surrounding Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen. Andrew has also guided extensively on the Feather, Yuba, Lower Sac, and Trinity Rivers. Andrew has fly fished in the Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela, New Zealand, Chile and Tasmania. Andrew is the author of “Plumas National Forest Trout Fishing Guide” and is a frequent contributor to California Fly Fisher magazine. Andrew lives in Red Bluff, California.

Upcoming Program Schedule

July ------Club Swap Meet

August ------Jack Trout ------Argentina and Chile

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High Sierra Fishouts

This summer you will undoubtedly be basking in the nice weather and thinking, gee, wouldn’t it be great to be fishing in the beautiful California Sierras, up in the mountains, away from it all, I mean, *really* away from it all? Tons of sunshine, cooperative fish, nobody around, what’s not to like? When you call around, you’ll discover that you can’t exactly be guaranteed a slot on the river/trail you’d like. You can probably get some wilderness permit, but to get to the best fishing you would have had to make a reservation six months ago … which is exactly what we did for you.

The Flycasters have permits and plans for fishouts to three amazing Sierra destinations this summer, all carefully selected to be potentially fantastic fishing, awesome scenery, and yet, be accessible to backpackers and fishermen of all ability levels. The first is the San Joaquin above Lake Florence July 10, then the Dinkey Lakes Wilderness July 24, and finally, Tuolumne Meadows to Glen Aulin, September 11.

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If you were an out-of-state visitor looking for a quintessential California Fishing Wilderness adventure, you’d no-doubt be paying hundreds of dollars *a day* for the privilege, but with the Flycasters, our fishouts will cost dollars a day, and your membership fee gets you the camaraderie and expertise of your fellow members as well as the experience and planning of the fishmaster. These are backpacking trips and require backpacking several miles on mountain trails. Most of the preparation is somewhat do-it-yourself, but you knew that.

For more detail, see the fishout descriptions on this web site under File Sharing / 2014 Fishouts. There are a very limited number of slots on these trips; you might want to contact the fishmaster as soon as possible.

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 1961 was a marvelous year for surfing movies like “Beach Party” starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, surfing sweetheart. How about “Gidget Goes Hawaiian”? There is something about a girl who can surf with the boys. Let’s not forget her beau, Moondoggie. Even Elvis did the movie “Blue Hawaii” about surfing.  Even the music was about the surf scene. Remember that buzz saw guitar playing for Dick Dale and the Del- Tones. How about the voices of Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys singing surfing songs. Gotta love that “Surfing USA” , “Surfin’ Safari” and my favorite “Surfer Girl”  I bet you had a pair of cut off Levi’s shorts, Surfer stripe tee shirts and wore flip-flops and hung out on the beaches like Black’s beach in San Diego, Malibu beach in Los Angeles or, more likely, to beaches near Santa Cruz.  Do you remember riding in your buddy’s dune buggy on the sand dunes and cruising beach towns?  How about your mom asking you to pick up your long board out of her garage?  The smell of chili dogs in the ocean salt air, soft chewy salt water taffy and those sweet pink cotton candy memories makes my mouth water for that taste one more time.

So ask yourself, Luke - what does this have to do with flyfishing? Follow along ---

80’s Evolution --

We lost our innocence by realizing how much in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s we mistreated our waters. We grew up and matured enough to use our surfer knowledge and how physics & biology all play important roles how the ocean behaves and supports its habitat.

Like a lot of mature surfers, we became stewards of the ocean. Do you remember how dynamic Ken Hanley sounded, speaking at our conservation dinner? Ken and Jay Murakoshi are legends for preaching salt water/ surf flyfishing. They did presentations up and down California - spreading the good things about surf flyfishing. Ken took his surfing experiences and showed us how wave dynamics, environmental elements, and the fish themselves influenced our approach to fishing for them. They are the Zen Masters and pioneers of the surf.

90’s Evolution --

I met Ed Hamada at the casting ponds in 1999. Ed and another club member named Vaughn made 12 foot two handed fly rods. Ed was shooting line over the fence and onto the SECOND bicycle path. It was an amazing cast to get that kind of distance. He used this same cast for his surf fly fishing. I became enlightened.

I talked with Tim Rajeff at the ISE show in the early 2000s about surf fly fishing with a 2 handed fly rod. His company develops a spey rod that has a fast tip and strong butt on the rod to handle overhead casts with a two handed rod for the surf. Cowabunga!!! Page 7 FLYLINES JUNE 2014

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Recent Evolution –

Today’s major fly rod manufacturers target the surf fly fishing market. Loomis, CND, and Beulah have dedicated making two handed surf fly rods while Sage & Winston make spey and switch rods that are suited for surf conditions. For example, the Sage Deathstar spey rod definitely can handle surf conditions and is highly prized for its power. Now we have these magic wands commercially available to us to conquer surf conditions.

Richard Quan invited me to join him at Ken Hanley’s 2 day seminar about fly fishing in the surf. Ken taught this seminar like a grad school Master’s Program. For a moment, I thought I was studying at UC Santa Cruz. Everyone at that seminar learned a lot about the surf. If you have a chance take it, it’s worth the time and money. While the rest of the guys were using traditional and integrated shooting heads, Richard & I were using 2 handed Echo 2 Scandinavian spey rod 7 WTs with traditional shooting heads. We applied Ken’s lessons which resulted in that we were only two that caught fish on that windy day. If it wasn’t for the 2 handed fly rod, we would never have been able to overcome that wind.

With the recent development of shooting heads in the Spey world: Skagit heads with 10 feet of T-14 leader has made big changes in how we fish the surf. Because of this rigging combined with the two handed rod, we can reach far off holes - 100 feet plus - but we can hit small “nervous water” holes (5 to 10 feet wide) and use cross currents to swing through the hole. Doesn’t this remind you of steelhead fly fishing? This set up made it easy for water pickups too, and the hidden benefit is that the Skagit head became a big sight indicator. This is a big game changer because it gives us another fishing option besides using traditional shooting heads.

Your Evolution --

With Ken’s contributions to surf fly fishing, the advancements in two handed surf fly rods & Skagit heads, and the current California drought - How about taking a 35 minute drive to Santa Cruz beaches to try two handed fly fishing for fish that wear striped suits? Stripers! Barr surf perch! Starry flounder! Smelt! even Shark! How about giving the trout a break this year due to the drought and hit the beach? Take advantage of all the evolutions and fish the surf & go have fun on the beach. Bring your wife and kids along too. If you get skunked, you and your family can go dine at great restaurant nearby for your consolation prize.

SURF’s UP - start your evolution

COWABUNGA DUDE

By Luke Sing

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THREE NEW FLY TYING VIDEOS ADDED TO THE VIDEO LIBRARY T-108: “Tying Bass Flies” with Jimmy Nix demonstrates how to tie bass flies, the Baby Doll Muddler, the Shineabou Shiner, the Wool Head Shineabou Shiner, the Fuzzabou and Fuzzy Bunny. As a bonus, Doug McKnight demonstrates tying a KS Slider and Scott Sanchez demonstrates tying a Double Bunny plus a super easy fly using rabbit and silicone legs. T-109: “Tying Western Dry and Trout Flies” with Mike Lawson and Jack Dennis is a two Disc DVD which covers 17 flies as well as a discussion of fly tying tools, hooks, selecting deer and elk hair, and demonstrating how to use the Thompson whip finish. The flies featured are: Humpy, Royal Humpy, , Irresistible, , Deer Hair Hopper, , Kiwi Minnow, No Hackle fly, Floating Nymph, Paradrake, Henry Fork’s Hopper, Spent Partridge Caddis, Goddard Caddis, Green Drake, an ant pattern and the Trude. If you are interested in only a couple of flies on the DVDs, both have easy access to the fly of your choice; however there are a couple of flies which rely on a technique demonstrated for a previous fly. T-110A & T-110B: Jay Murakoshi donated two DVDs featuring Captain Kevin Doran demonstrating how he ties his KDM Rat fly. For you serious bass fly anglers, you might want to tie and add several of these flies to your boxes. The KDM Rat fly looks like a serious, deadly top water fly. Judy

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Truckee river fishout July 17 – 20

Flycasters is heading to the Truckee River area off Interstate 80 near Boca Reservoir in July. We’ll be camping at the Boca Springs Group Campsite. Dave Pellone and Wade Goertz are the fishmasters. There is so much water to explore – You can hit the Truckee and Little Truckee Rivers – Also Boca, Prosser, and Stampede Reservoirs – and Martis Creek Lake is a short drive away. Most of the rivers and lakes are stocked so catching should be good. Wild Rainbow and Brown Trout are the prizes. Lots of opportunities for river and stillwater fishing. The group campsite can accommodate 25 campers so we have plenty of room – Thursday through Sunday nights. We will be doing the Thursday night Pot Luck dinner. Sign up for whatever food you would like to share. Breakfast and lunch for Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be provided as well as Friday and Saturday dinner. If you choose to stay over Sunday dinner will be up to you. Sign-ups will take place at the June Flycasters meeting

For more info go to www.Flycasters.org and open the File Sharing Menu – 2014 Fishouts – TruckeeFishout2014

Cost is $70 per person – make checks payable Dave Pellone

Contact Dave 650-353-0668 [email protected]

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Ross CLA 5, for the Sage 8119, includes new Skagit and Scandinavia line. $150

Contact: Robert Lowe, 408-335-8000, [email protected].

Now booking trips for the 2014/2015 seasons See the website www.flyfishingtrinity.com for more information

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SUBJECT Volunteerism

There are many worthwhile volunteer events each year, but not many involve the fun activity of fishing. However, each year around the first weekend of May, there are two great local community service events which involve fishing for rainbow trout. I want to make sure our club members are aware of these two events which require volunteers for their success. The two events are: THE CUPERTINO LIONS CLUB FISH-A-THON

This event was hosted by the Cupertino Lions Club and held at the Stevens Creek Quarry on May 3rd. Our own Jim Isaacson has organized this wonderful event for many years along with his fellow Lion’s members. Special kudos and thanks to Jim Isaacson and his team for the many hours of planning, organizing and preparing for this event. The actual event involves around 150 volunteers to serve the approximate 120 fishing participants. The volunteers help over 2 days with setting up the shade covers for the dining area, setting up tables/chairs, cooking apparatus, fishing and equipment (see photos), marking off fishing and parking lanes, being , etc.; then taking everything down and returning all the gear and equipment to storage.

I believe all caught trout, with many of the happy 120 participants with special needs ranging from ages 6 to over 80 years old, getting their limit of 3 trout. The trout were cleaned and iced so the participants could later cook them for dinner. They also had their pictures taken with their catches. All present enjoyed a hearty breakfast and BBQ hamburger/hot dog lunch. It was a fun and happy experience for all, including the volunteers. San Jose Flycasters who helped out were Bob Shoberg, Mike Culcasi, Mike Lovejoy, Tom Key, and of course, Jim and Val Isaacson. My apologies if I missed any one from our club who volunteered.

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THE VETERANS FIRST FLY FISHING

On Friday, May 2nd, the Veterans First Fly Fishing 5th Annual event was held at Shadow Cliffs. An area of the lake was netted off and provided by the East Bay Regional Park District. Several hundred pounds of rainbow trout donated by Lassen Trout were planted within the netted area. Veterans from several Bay area VA facilities then fished for the trout with fly rods and flies, some tied by the veterans themselves. In addition, there were casting lessons, fly tying, knots and lots of food (breakfast and lunch) for all, including volunteers from several local fly fishing clubs. All had a wonderful day! The Pleasanton Lions co-hosted the breakfast to get everyone ready for a fun day of fishing

Special thanks to Ken Brunskill and his team, who volunteer countless hours planning, organizing and implementing this wonderful outing for our veterans. San Jose Flycasters who helped out were Bob Meacham, Bob Shoberg, John Parks, and Judy Nakawatase.

NEXT YEAR For next year (2015), I hope you will mark your calendars to join us for these two worthwhile and fun fishing events for our veterans and people with special needs. It’s nice to help these folks enjoy getting outdoors to fish and enjoy the experience of proudly hooking and landing a rainbow trout. Shiz

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The Tier's Corner No. 114

CDC By Jim Cramer

Hello all. This month you are CDC feathers are relatively new have to pluck a duck. The receiving a revised copy of a to the American waters but have feathers surrounding the gland, column I wrote for the Tier's been used in Europe for a but not actually attached to it, are Corner in 2004. If you are new hundred years or more. The symmetrical in shape with the to the club then it will be a new CDC feathers have some unique barbs on each side of the stem column for you, and if you were features not found in other equal in length. Those feathers here ten years ago you materials which make them closest to the gland have very probably don't remember it so I especially interesting and useful. fine center stems, sometimes should be safe in offering it to Mother Nature designed the almost unnoticeable, and the you once again. CDC is a fun feathers to act as a wick to barbs can be the length of the material with which to tie. It has transfer oil from the gland to the feather itself. These are the many uses from tailing shucks, duck's bill by capillary action. feathers that are often confused to bodies and dubbing, and to There are not as many barbs with down. Moving outward from wings in many forms. Although coming from the stem as on a the gland the feathers become it is generally considered a high quality hackle but each longer with pronounced center material for dry flies because of barb is covered with countless stems. The stems of these its buoyancy, it should not be microscopic barbules that hold feathers have a pronounced over looked as a material for the natural oil and trap air. This taper with thick butts making wet flies. For those that have combination of embedded oil them difficult to wrap as a normal not incorporated CDC into their and feather structure makes the hackle feather. Also the barb tying arsenal -read on. CDC extremely water resistant length shortens relative to the and buoyant. A false cast or two overall length of the feather. There is a spot on the rear end and the CDC fly is high and dry of a duck about the size of my again. Don't use paste or other With the good comes a little bad. thumb nail that yields some floatant on these flies as it will The feathers are fragile most interesting feathers for the only degrade the natural compared with high grade hackle. dry fly tier and . I'm flotation. They are not very large which referring to the , makes wrapping them in a CDC, feathers which is the The oil gland is on top of the conventional manner somewhat name given to the preen back just forward of the tail and difficult. (Also, on a per ounce feathers that surround the oil resembles a small nipple. It is basis they are quite expensive, gland. These are small fragile tucked under and carefully but an ounce of CDC feathers is feathers that somewhat covered with the longer body one heck of a lot of feathers.) resemble down, but aren't feathers so it is not readily This means is that you will have down, and shouldn't be apparent. Emerging from the to vary your technique a bit. The confused with it. I just finished center of the gland are the small Swiss and the French have been plucking CDC feathers from oily nipple plumes. These are perfecting CDC techniques for a seventeen wild duck butts short, dark, compact, oily hundred years so we can just furnished by a friend. The butts feathers that are best used as borrow from them and add some yielded less than 100 feathers trailing shucks or micro caddis of our own stuff. per bird with the longest wings. I have never seen these feathers being about one and feathers offered on the market CDC can be used for all parts of one-half inches long and most so if you want to try them you’ll our flies; trailing shucks, bodies, of them about 3/4 inch. Page 13 FLYLINES JUNE 2014 wings, and hackles. Bodies can common wings are made using naturals for the CDC as all you be made by dubbing the CDC to bunches of the barbs, but loop- have to do is adjust the amount of the tying thread. The CDC barbs wings are possible using whole CDC to achieve the buoyancy and are cut from the stem and feathers. The easy way to get flotation you want. dubbed directly on the thread or enough CDC barbs in a single first put in a blender and bunch without losing control is to Incorporating CDC into wet fly and chopped before dubbing. align three feathers with their nymph patterns is a more recent Another method is to tie in a stems together and using the development. Substituting it for single CDC feather by its tip and thumb and forefinger strip the other materials has provided some then twist the stem to make a barbs from one side of all three amazing results. Think outside the yarn as you wrap forward. CDC feathers at once. Then, keeping box and be ready to one-up your hackle can be wrapped in the the barbs bunched in your finger buddies. conventional manner or the and thumb, rotate the feathers to barbs can be stripped and tied the other side, align the stripped One of the best sources for quality in as bunch, which is then flared butts with the stems and strip the CDC is www.trouthunt.com. to give the right effect. One nice other side. This should yield Personally I really prefer the thing about CDC is that the enough fibers in one controlled natural CDC over the dyed barbs can be trimmed to length bundle to make a fair sized wing material because I feel that and still maintain the natural tip on most flies. something is lost in the dying look. A very durable hackle can process. be made with a dubbing loop Emergers and other patterns that and the CDC barbs. The most float in the surface film are

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2014 Officers and Chairs Fly Fishing Travel

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