Cascade Family Flyfishers

Vol 33, Issue 10

October, 2016

Inside the Newsreel On The Cover

Page 2 Prez Sez Randy Beard with a Rogue River Jack Salmon

Page 3 Big Sky Montana

Kat Paiva October Meeting

Page 4 Upcoming Potluck Annual Fundraising Auction & Dinner

Page 5-6 Photos October 27, 2016 6:00 pm

Page 7-8 , Dave See page 9 for details Hughes —————————————————- Monthly Meeting Location Wesley Methodist Church Page 9 Auction Invitation Corner of Oakway & Cal Young 4th Thursday of the month Page 10 Upcoming Events Doors open at 6:15 meeting starts at 7:00 pm

Board meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of the Page 11 Membership Application month at 6:00 pm and all members are welcome. Both meetings are held at Wesley United Methodist Church Page 12 About the Club

explore our more complex topics. All members are encouraged to come and we always have a great The Prez Sez potluck lunch. More details will come out later; and 2) Some of the topics we'll explore and consider in Glenn Miller detail at this meeting are additional conservation projects, future youth programs, support of conservation groups, and a review of all our s I write this column, the trees are starting to projected educational outdoor schools and other change color, leaves are falling, and the events in 2017. A weather is changing. The days are getting I feel blessed to have served as President of this shorter and the temperatures are nice and moderate. club for the last five years. It's been real rewarding It's such a beautiful time of the year. I have a and a lot of fun and I've really enjoyed working with tendency to look and plan ahead but doing that just so many energetic and high quality people. But it's brings me to the winter months. With an occasional good to change things up every so often and Randy reminder from my wife, I'm going to live in the Beard is waiting in the wings to be our new President moment for the next 4-6 weeks and enjoy the in 2017. Yes, he will need to be voted in at the richness of fall in the northwest! Winter will come November meeting but if that's not a "no brainer" soon enough. vote, I don't know what is! Randy has tremendous Time is running short to fish the high Cascade energy and enthusiasm, is friendly with everyone, Lakes. I made a spur of the moment decision and and has great leadership skills. We are very headed up to Gold Lake one day last week, catching fortunate to have him stepping in. In addition to a day before the big storms rolled into the Pacific Randy, we'll also vote on a new Vice-President and Northwest. It was my first time to Gold this year and three new board members. I'll announce the I was able to net a few chunky, beautiful Rainbows. candidates for these positions at the October Hardly anyone else was there. I wanted a few Brook Auction. trout for the smoker and looked all over for them Glenn Miller but was only able to land one small Brookie. Oh well, I'm sure there will be a few more good days to fish up there before the season closes on Oct 31. I've also heard good reports from those fishing Diamond Lake and I hope some of you can join Marv Clemons on the club outing Oct 21-23. The focus in our club this month is the Auction. It's one of our biggest events of the year and is our biggest fundraiser. You've all been getting reminder e-mails and phone calls. If you can, I encourage everyone to get involved in some way by donating a few items or helping out at the event. Some of you are so busy with jobs, school, or other things that A chunky Gold Lake rainbow just getting to the Auction will be all you can do. I hope most of you can make it as it's really a fun and festive event! Here are a couple of things that came out of the board meeting last week: 1) Our annual planning meeting will be Saturday, December 3rd at the Vida McKenzie Community Center. The meeting will be held from 9-2 this year; an hour or two longer than previous years which will give us additional time to

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Big Sky Country fat rainbows in all sizes, orange-jawed Yellowstone cutthroats, By Katherine Paiva Technicolor Brookies, and an assortment of other silver slipperies. The fish alone are reason to go back.

Most of us have a favorite place we like to fish, a place we return Montana is full of new friends and old friends, some native born, to time after time, year after year. Ours is Montana. We’ve spent and those from far away lands, all fierce in their love of this nearly two months there this year, and club members have asked glorious piece of earth. You’ll meet them at the Laundromat, in us why. “Are you moving there?” No. “What’s so special about line for the vault toilet, or over a campfire – and they’ll share the Montana?” Let me explain. best places to fish, what flies to use, and where to find non-Bison To us, Montana is as familiar as a years-old flannel shirt – the one pizza. Listening to the life stories has formed many a friendship. that frays and fades each time you wash it – but you return to it again and again because it’s comfortable. That’s how we feel Inevitably though, whether it’s your first visit or your twenty- about Montana. It’s comfortable, casual, and informal. We return third, some Montanan will draw you aside, point to a distant spot to reunite with old friends, to fish, and relax. on the horizon and conspiratorially whisper, “They filmed A River Runs Through It right over there!” Seriously. It’s happened to us at Usually people go on vacation or travel to escape their everyday least a dozen times. But not as many times as we’ve crossed the reality. Montana, however, is full of reality – the natural kind. When Clark Fork. Driving from Columbia Falls to Spokane we lost count. you don’t have cell phone service or a TV, you just look up the The Clark Fork is the Starbucks of Montana – it’s everywhere. It’s canyon to determine the weather, or stick a foot out the door to also on the fishing list for next year. gauge the wind. Mom Nature is in charge in Montana and she’s quick to upset the best-laid plans. That’s reality. Our relationship with Montana is a comfortable combination of shared life stories, friends, fish tales, the unexpected wonder of Which brings me to the Montana sky. It’s amazing. People always nature, and that ever-glorious sky. Is it any wonder why we want to ask, "What's so special – it’s the same one you have at home.” By return again and again? You should go. comparison, that's not true. When I'm sitting in a boat on a Montana river, I feel like I'm sitting at the bottom of a snow globe. The sky above is ever-changing – petal soft snow one minute, and pelting hail the next. Then it switches up to cold, torrential down- your-neck rain, glorious glaring sunshine, or a slide show of bumpy, fluffy, streaky, or whispering clouds. The sky mesmerizes me and causes me to clog my camera memory with so many photos that it begs for "more iCloud Storage please."

The Nature Channel is “on” twenty-four seven in Montana. Trying to park the car for pizza? Watch out for the bull elk wandering across the parking lot. Jumping out of the boat for a quick shore lunch? “Oh look, there’s a big buck swimming in the middle of the river. He must have been right behind us.” (Where’s the dam camera?) Buffalo stroll nonchalantly down the roads of Yellowstone and cause a Pied Piper tail of tourists and camera luggers. Petite hooved antelopes litter agricultural pastures, wolves and mountain goats abound, and, if you’re lucky, you’ll see a bear – from afar.

We love the spread and sprawl of a Montana landscape too. It’s a mixture of towering rocks walls, plains, foothills, and green forests of fir, larch, and pine. The wide-open valleys, caused by the pause of a glacier, provide a 180-degree view that’s more beautiful than any obnoxiously sized TV screen. When you go, drive through Paradise Valley on the way to the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone and you'll see what I mean.

Cold clear paths of running water riddle Montana. They carve through the countryside, falling, trickling and rushing, hurrying to join with other waters, or standing perfectly still and filling a space with a glittery face toward the sky. Lake McDonald in Glacier Park is just one example – it takes my breath away. Several awesome feisty native fish live in those waters too. They’re smart, sly, and elusive. Over the years we’ve been lucky enough to catch beautiful golden big-shouldered Browns, huge chubby kissy-face white fish,

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Leaburg Fly Tying Gathering & Potluck

When: Saturday November 19, 2016 Where: Leaburg Fire Station Time: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

Last potluck — pies & enchiladas

At our last fly tying potluck we had a large turnout. It was so popular that we booked the fire station for another session in November. Come and share what you know, or if you are just getting going after last winter’s classes this is an opportunity to sit with some of our best fly tying experts. Halfway through the day we will break for a potluck that you won’t want to miss, our members are known to cook up some tasty treats.

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Bob Wolfe Diamond Lake

Glenn Miller Crane Prairie

Bill Burleigh at Pronghorn Dennis Munroe Crane Prairie Bill Burleigh

Joe Moody’s grandson Sawyer at Cottage Grove Pond

Joe Moody at Diamond Lake

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Evening floats purchased at the 2015 auction, top L-R; Jerry Blade, Pete Szekley, Mike Marlatt, Dave Prindle.

Bottom L-R; Brandy Williford, Steve Overall, Vic Hadley, Randy Beard

Trese Slocum and Randy Beard and a curious bear on the Rogue Wild & Scenic

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Tenkara Fishing by Dave Hughes

Tenkara is a 400-year-old traditional Japanese method of mountain streams for trout with a long rod, fixed line and leader, single damp fly, and no reel. Original rods were made from a light and slender bamboo culm, similar to crappie sticks used today in the mid-west. Tenkara rods are now made of fiberglass or graphite, and are telescoping. Lines are typically furled and about the length of the rod, or of single-diameter +/-15# fluorocarbon up to twice as long as the rod. Leader tippets are two to five feet of 5X or 6X; the idea is to break off an outsized fish just before the fish breaks your rod.

Must read: Tenkara: Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly Fishing by Kevin C. Kelleher, MD with Misako Ishimura. Lyons Press, 2011 and --- Trout From Small Streams 2nd Edition by Dave Hughes, whoever he is, with a long chapter on tenkara fishing.

Advantages of Tenkara: The rod is light, simple, compact when telescoped, yet highly efficient for covering water and presenting flies on water that is suited to the method: small to medium-sized streams with pocket water and few long pools, and no overhanging canopy of brush and low trees. It’s perfect for backpacking, for carrying along on casual hikes, for having available when a more complex set of gear might be a burden. It’s a very delightful way to fish, and to catch fish...remember those stick-and-string days when you had that most direct connection to the thrashing trout? That’s an advantage of Tenkara. It’s largest advantage is that you go fishing unburdened. It can, in certain circumstances, be more efficient and productive than ‘western fly fishing’, which, when it happens, is another advantage.

Disadvantages of Tenkara: The distance you can cast limits your range to +/- 20 feet with tapered furled lines, +/- 35 feet with level fluorocarbon lines. That distance is somewhat fixed; it’s as difficult to fish short with a long tenkara line as it is to cast long with a short one. The fragile rod limits the size trout you might catch to a recommended 15- or 16- inches, though of course larger trout are possible in gentle flows, and smaller trout might break you off in heavy flows. Much larger fish have been caught, even carp, salmon, and steelhead, but the method is not perfectly suited to such ‘stunts’. There are recommendations to throw your rod in the water and follow it if you have a big fish on. That might work, but I’ve never gotten around to throwing a tenkara rod in the water. The delicate rod discourages you from fishing heavily-weighted nymphs and large strike indicators, though I often fish size 14-16 beadhead nymphs under yarn indicators. In many circumstances, tenkara fishing can be far less productive than western fly fishing, which is a disadvantage in those circumstances if you enjoy catching fish.

What you need to get started (I own and fish each of these):

Outfit 1. Fountainhead 330 (+/- 11 feet) Caddis rod; Fountainhead 10.5-foot furled leader; spool of 5X tippet; traditional Tenkara flies if you’re a traditionalist, an assortment of your favorite dry flies, wets, and beadheaded or lightly-weighted nymphs, plus a few Muddlers. Cost: +/-$100.

Outfit 2. TenkaraUSA Iwana rod (+/-12 feet); 13-foot furled leader and 30-meter spool level line (cut to 15-18 feet); spool of 5X tippet; set of traditional Tenkara flies plus a selection of favorites you already use. Cost: +/- $200.

Outfit 3. Tenkara Bum 7'10" Shimotsuke Kiyotaki, Kid’s outfit, with rod, line, flies, some accessories included...delicate and a lot of fun on tiny water and small fish. Cost: $99 plus shipping.

Since I wrote the above, many new rods have come to market. Several new manufacturers are making them. Some are so excellent I’m afraid of the excitement they’d cause me if I fished them...the world of tenkara is opening out.

Outfit 4. TenkaraUSA Rhodo, extensible from about 9’ to 10’ and 11’, with a furled line the length of the rod and a level line perhaps twice that length. This rod fishes at 9’ on small streams, 10’ or 11’ on medium to large streams. It’s so good I wrote it up for a Fly Rod & Reel Kudo award. If it doesn’t strain your budget, it’s the one tenkara rod I’d own, and do.

To remember about tenkara: It’s what Charles Cotton did in England with his unwieldy greenheart rods; it’s what Juan de Bergara did in Spain, and probably what Dame Julianna Berners did, so many years, decades, now centuries ago, all at about the same time, and all under different names. Manners of fishing similar to tenkara cropped up all over the world-- China, too--around 400 years ago, a time which continues to recede into the past. It’s not far off from what kids fishing crappie do now with a cane pole; it’s what kids on docks in Oregon and Japan do with sticks and strings. It’s what I do when I want to cast aside my cares, toss off my heavy burdens, and go have some fun catching trout in one of those beautiful places called trout streams.

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Tenkara Fishing, Dave Hughes (Continued)

Is Tenkara a fad: Lefty Kreh said it is, and I admire nobody more than Lefty. It’s 400 years old in Japan, but not many folks do it there now. Is it a fad here? It’s possible its swiftly-rising popularity will peak, level off, possibly decline. It might have a similar curve to that of a book after publication: rise, peak, decline, and one hopes, level off at some substantial level. Does tenkara need to be a fad in your life? If you use it wrong, and in the wrong places, it will be. I’ve been Tenkara fishing for about twenty-five years, and do it far more now than I did when I started. I enjoy being unburdened more often.

How when and where to use Tenkara right: Don’t become a purist; integrate it into your own life and fishing, with flies and tactics you use now, at times when trout are plentiful and eager, in places where you can cover the water with a fixed length of line, where there is little overhead obstruction--trees!--and where the trout are plentiful and not monsters.

Where it works best: On a small to medium trout stream, ideally with broken benches and pocket water as opposed to long pools; on water with an open canopy as opposed to overhanging shrubs and tree branches; on water that is somewhat shallow, so trout are willing to poke up for floating or shallow sunk flies; on water where you can wade up the middle, hit potential lies from bank to bank; on water where trout are abundant and hungry as opposed to scant and reluctant to bite; on the parts of big rivers that can be fished as if they were small water: riffles, pocket water, the banks.

Where it works worst: On small brushed-in streams; on big water, especially where it’s deep; on lakes and ponds, though I’ve used it there for bluegill, bass, and trout; on cold water when trout are glued to the bottom and need to be nymphed; on flat water over selective rising trout, where you’d like to go ‘fine and far off’--with Tenkara it’s easy to go fine but difficult to go far off.

Where I haven’t tried it yet and am a bit afraid to: The banks of the Deschutes; I think it would work well to hook trout; I think one of those hot 12- to 14-incher redsides might break my rod or pull me in. The Missouri and Bighorn over selective, sipping risers that have to be hooked on 6X, but bolt off on long runs the instant they feel the hook.

My favorite tenkara methods: Standard dry fly; dry fly and nymph dropper; traditional Tenkara damp fly or soft- hackle; beadhead nymph and yarn indicator; damp Muddler Daddy top fly with anchor wet fly point (this last method should be outlawed; it can be deadly and too much fun).

Websites: Google Tenkara for lots of articles/reviews/blogs; I think of tenkara as an internet phenomena. Several sites show Japanese experts fishing. tekarausa.com tenkarabum.com tenkaraflyfish.webs.com (Fountainhead) cutthroatleader.com (furled leaders)

Link to OPB Oregon Field Guide short of Masako Tani and Dave Hughes tenkara fishing: http://www.opb.org/television/programs/ofg/segment/tenkara-popularity-grows-in-us-as-anglers-try-japanese-fly- fishing/

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Cascade Family Fly Fishers

Menu $15.00 ea Fund-raising Auction &

Number Dinner Invitation Choose One Of Meals

Thursday, October 27, 2016 Marinated chicken breast with

baked potato, butter, cheese, green onions and sour cream

Marinated chicken breast with Location mashed potatoes

Wesley United Methodist Church 1385 Oakway Rd, Eugene 97401 Tri-tip steak with baked potato, Corner of Cal Young & Oakway butter, cheese, green onions and sour cream

Come early to look over the silent auction items and place your bids. The venue is alcohol free. Unopened wine and other spirits can be auction items. Tri-tip steak with mashed potato

Dinner and silent auction starts at 6:00 PM, first silent auction table closes at 6:30 pm. Remaining tables close every 10 minutes until all tables have been closed. We (I) plan to attend the auction:

Yes ____ No____

Name (s) Phone # (s)

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Schedule

Please return your 3:30—6:00 Auction committee arrives to form by setup hall

October 22, 2016 6:00 Dinner and silent auction starts. First silent auction table closes

at 6:30, remaining tables close every 10 minutes

7:00—8:30 Oral Auction Marv Clemons [email protected]

8:30—9:00 Cash Out Or mail to: 2814 Dahlia Lane, Eugene OR, 97404

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Cascade Family Flyfishers Outings Calendar 2016 2016 Club Leadership Location Date Host Phone Executive Board Club Diamond Lake Fri, Oct 21—Sun, Marv Clemons 541/688-8774 Oct 23 President Glenn Miller 541-359-9522

Vice President Randy Beard Upcoming Events 2016 541-521-2801 Treasurer Rod Roth 541-342-6745 Annual Auction October 27th Wesley Methodist Church Secretary Jen Acosta 541-741-8276 November Meeting November 17th One week early due to holiday Past President Marv Clemons 541-688-8774 Fly Tying/Potluck November 19th Leaburg Fire Station Board Members Ginnie Grilley Planning Meeting December 3rd McKenzie Community Center Tim Hood Joe Moody Holiday Party December 15th Roaring Rapids Pizza Parlor Trese Slocum

Dennis Munroe Bob Wolfe Committee Chairpersons: From the Editor: Outings Newsletter submissions are due the 2nd Sunday of the month. We Trese Slocum welcome your photos and fishing trip stories. When submitting Newsletter photographs please include names and locations Roz Kauffman for the readers. Email photographs or any Website information you want to appear in the newsletter to: Carolyn Beardshear Communications Roz Kauffman at [email protected] Michelle Overall

Membership Michelle Overall Library Alan Corbin Programs Michael T. Williams Shop Locally and Save 10% at Homewaters and The Caddis Fly Fly Tying Classes Rod Roth Auction/FFF Rep Marv Clemons Conservation Glen Neal

444 West 3rd Avenue— 168 West 6th Ave. Eugene, OR Eugene, OR Eugene OR 97401

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ABOUT THE CASCADE FAMILY FLY FISHERS

The Cascade Family Fly Fishers (CFF) is an independent, not for profit, fly fishing organization open to the pub- lic and is an affiliate of the National Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF). Annual dues are $25.00 for an individual or family membership, $15.00 for a student, and $10.00 for those who live outside Lane County. Membership includes a subscription to the newsletter and the privilege of participating in any and all club activities. CFF Board meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month and the general membership meetings on the fourth Thursday of each month.

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