Search “Santiam Flycasters” SANTIAM FLYCASTERS SANTIAMFLYCASTERS.COM August 2021 August Fly Casting Clinic Board Meeting With Dwight Klemin Location TBD August 9 Thursday August 12 6:30 pm 6:30 pm General Meeting Wallace Marine Park West Salem August 12 First Paved Parking Lot Casting on The Lawn The Club is offering two clinic sessions this August Wallace Marine Park 1. Presenting Your Fly (single hand rods) 6:30 pm Clinic will focus on several ways to present your fly effectively. Every fish presents options to present your fly. This Clinic offers several possible casts like reach, parachute, wiggle casts that you can learn to In This Issue become effective on the water • President’s Corner by The clinic does a quick refresher on casting basics then moves to presenting Scott Vaslev your fly. Bring a fly rod with a leader (No Flies Please). The Club has rods if • SFC Officers and Board needed. Members 2. Two-hand Spey Casting Clinic (Two-hand rods) • South Santiam Outing Report by Ricky Love Clinic will focus on basic fundamentals of the switch cast which is the heart • Gold Lake Outing Report of ALL spey casts. by Scott Vaslev • Three Creek Lake Outing The last half of the clinic focuses on the Single, Double, Snap T , Snake Roll Report by Ken Karnosh positioning moves before the final presentation of the fly which is the basic • August 4—North Santiam switch cast. Spey casts are named by the repositioning move. These four Outing casts cover the needed casts to be effective in all situations on the water. • August 14—Willamette Bring your spey rod outfit. No club rods available. No fly (yarn will be River Outing available). • August 21—Klamath Lake Outing • Rocky Point (Klamath Lake) Revisited by Beth Volunteers Needed: Santiam Flycasters will be at the Jappay Cascade School District’s “Explore: The Natural World” • My Favorite Lines by Beth event, scheduled for August 16-19 at Turner Elementary Jappay • 2021 August Fly of the School" and will need volunteers for August 17 to teach fly Month Foam Damsel Fly tying and August 18 to teach fly casting. Also on Aug 18 will By Robert LeClerc need a person or two to demonstrate actual fly fishing on Mill Creek at the school. Hours will be 9:30 a.m. to about 3:00 p.m. For more information and to volunteer, contact Robert LeClerc at [email protected]. Page 2 Santiam Flycasters President’s Corner BOARD AND OFFICERS By Scott Vaslev Scott Vaslev - President VACANT - Vice President/ As you have probably heard ODFW Programs has issued “hoot owl” regulations on Dennis Burnett - Secretary valley streams. Meaning all fishing Tim Johnson - Treasurer/ ceases at 2 pm. This made an interesting fishing experience for Membership Dennis and I. Board Members We floated the Shelburn to Green Will and Reenie Satak - Bridge run on the N. Santiam July 7th. We were physically on the river Concessions @ 7:45 am. Finished fishing at 2 pm and floated an hour to the takeout Matt Neznanski - Webmaster scenery gazing, with our rods in their holders and hands on the oars. I Leroy Shepherd - Newsletter don't disagree with the new regulations just wonder why 2 pm became the Editor magic number. I’ve since learned that ODFW has taken off the “hoot owl” regulations on certain parts of the river. Bob LeClerc - FFI Representative Speaking of which, we have a group outing on that run scheduled for George Hingston August 4 which is a Wednesday. This is a pretty long run (9 miles) so we Beth Jappay need an early start. I am trying to think of the best way to get us on the river ASAP and if we have to do some back and forth shuttling we do it at Ken Karnosh the end. So with that in mind, why don't we meet at the Green Bridge Ricky Love parking lot throw our boats on as many rigs as we can and drive to Don Meyer Shelburn leaving a rig or two at Green Bridge. Kent Toomb When we are done a someone can drive us back to pick up our pickups and trailers, drive back, and load up. Let’s meet at Green Bridge @ 7 am. Donnie Weninger The river on that run is clean and the fishing pretty good. Euro and indicator fishing works as well as swinging flies. Might want to bring along The club is looking for a stone fly or two and maybe some dries along with your favorite nymphs. someone to take over the Having fished the North Santiam a number of times since last summer’s office of Vice President on fires I have come to several conclusions: our executive board. The 1. The river is in remarkable shape considering all the trauma it main duties are to stand in suffered last year. If it had been an especially wet winter I believe the for the President as needed river would have suffered. and to line up our guest speakers for the monthly 2.We have floated all the runs from Mehama to Green Bridge and the river is amazingly clear. No unsightly root balls, fallen branches, or meetings. submerged logs. The Shelburn to Green Bridge run used to have a couple of spots that were pretty hairy but those spots have been The position is a great way cleared out. Easy peasy. Still, caution and a sharp eye are the rules to meet some of the top for the day. names in the sport outside 3.For some reason we aren't catching a lot of big fish this year. of just watching their Normally, we would catch a few 15” plus fish each per run but this year presentations to the club. maybe one or two total. Having said that, we catch lots of 8-10 inchers. Portends well for the future.Finally, as I float down the N. If you would like to learn Santiam I feel lucky to have this resource so close to home. If I see more about the position feel another boat or person on the river (which is rare) I yell “ Hey, this is free to contact George SFC private water, Get Off!” Just kidding, I just think it. Hingston at [email protected]. Page 3 South Santiam River Outing Report was projected to reach 91 degrees that day and it was already getting warm early. Despite the heat, fishing by Ricky Love was relatively good and all seven members netted fish to included several nice sized redside rainbows. Euro Nymphing seemed to be the most productive method of netting fish, however members also caught fish us- ing traditional nymphing methods. Brian Hoag enjoyed a great day and caught several fish including two rainbows that were in the 16-inch range. He caught all his fish using a red Copper John (size 14) and a red and white Perdigon. The Copper John was compliments of Tim Johnson who handed out several of them to members at Pleasant Valley. It was a hot fly for him the previous week on this river. I knew it was going to be a good day when I caught a beautiful little cutthroat on my first cast. The rest of the day wasn’t that easy but I managed to also net sever- al fish and caught two nice redsides in the 15 – 15 ½ Seven Santiam Flycasters attended this outing and inch range. I was euro nymphing the entire day and had to make some adjustments to our original plan we caught most fish using a Thread Frenchie as the point crafted a week prior. The Oregon Department of Fish fly and a Blue Perdigon as the dropper – both flies and Wildlife (ODFW) implemented the “Hoot Owl” were size 16. Regulation, an emergency fishing regulation designed to protect several species of fish (salmon, steelhead, Dennis Burnett and Tim sturgeon and trout) from the drought conditions. In Johnson also enjoyed good several rivers and streams across the state, fishing is days and netted a good limited between one hour prior to sunrise and 2pm. number of fish. Dennis This protects the fish from stress during the day when used a hybrid method and water temperatures are the warmest. had a Perdigon as the drop- per and a Partridge and Or- ange soft hackle as his point fly. The Partridge and Orange netted the majority of his fish to include a nice redside in the 14-inch range. Tim Johnson was also euro nymphing and caught most of his fish on an Orange Perdigon and his Red Copper John (size 14). He also netted a 14-inch red- side. It was a beautiful day to be on the water and we did have a little head wind from time to time. It helped cool us a little but made rowing in the ‘frog water” a We met up at 7am at Waterloo County Park then pro- little more difficult. At 2pm we reached our takeout ceeded to the Pleasant Valley boat ramp where we and loaded our gear in our vehicles and headed for would start our fishing adventure. The temperature home. Page 4 Gold Lake Outing Report By Scott Vaslev Not sure what the final head count was at this outing as we had members coming in and out over the four days and three nights I was there, if I had to guess around fourteen or fifteen. Some folks came up Wednesday and stayed one night while others trickled in over the next few days. I think everybody caught some fish.