Search “Santiam Flycasters” SANTIAM FLYCASTERS SANTIAMFLYCASTERS.COM December 2015 December Program—Thursday Dec. 10 Board Meeting With Carol Ann Morris Monday December 7 “Fly Fishing Photography 101: How to 7:00 PM Capture What You See” Garibaldi Family Restaurant General Meeting Carol Ann Morris, is a Annual Christmas Banquet photographer, videographer, and illustrator (watercolor, pen Thursday December 10 and ink, pencil) who works with 6:30 PM her husband, Skip Morris, on his (Note earlier starting time!) books, magazine articles, and Pringle Community Center instructional videos. Her photographs and illustrations have appeared In This Issue separate from Skip's work, in From the President Gray's Sporting Journal, the Yale Angler's Journal, and Fly Reminder to Renew Your Fishing & Tying Journal. Carol Membership has presented her power point presentation titled "Fly Fishing 2016 Officers and Board Photography 101: How to Fishing with the Frog by Capture What You See" at fly Howard Palmer Carol Ann Morris clubs and sportsman's shows around the US and Canada. You Shop—Amazon Gives For more on Carol Ann go to www.skip-morris-fly-tying.com. November (Lack of) Outing December Potluck Dinner (note earlier starting time!) Reports Remember our annual potluck dinner on Thursday, December 10, with din- Gift of a Vise ner starting at 6:30. The club will provide ham, turkey, potatoes, gravy, and beverages. Bring a side dish to share plus your table setting. “Spey Trek: Going From Look forward to special raffles and prizes. Single-Handed to Spey Casting” by Dwight Klemin If you pay your 2015 dues at the meeting, you will get an additional raffle tick- et as well. Membership Application So, bring your spouse, significant other, or friend to have a great time and let them meet the people you have been, or should have been, fishing with for the past year or so. Page 2 From the President Santiam Flycasters By Ken Karnosh BOARD AND OFFICERS Ken Karnosh President Well, this is my last column! Thanks to all of you for your support and assistance over this Dwight Klemin year and before with our club activities and Vice President/Programs functions. We can’t survive without your help Sam Thomas and participation. Secretary Thanks to Loren for volunteering to become Tim Johnson President in 2016. I know you will also give him Treasurer/Membership your support and assistance. Board Members Special thanks to: all of the Board for their help, Will and Reenie Satak to Dwight for organizing the interesting and Concessions informative meeting programs, Tim for doing all of the things that he does, Leroy Nancy Beeson for doing the newsletter, Jim for the Fly of the Month articles, Nancy for doing the raffle under a different format, Renee and Will for doing the refreshments, Frank Raffles for doing Project Healing Waters, Howard for being frequent Chef, all of you who Loren Bergerson have volunteered at events, etc. I am sure I missed others. Conservation Enjoy a safe holiday season as we look forward to another good year in 2016. See Matt Neznanski you on the water. Webmaster Leroy Shepherd It is Time to Renew Your Santiam Flycasters Membership Newsletter Layout/Design Howard Palmer If you haven’t done so already, this is an excellent time to renew your SFC mem- Newsletter Editor bership for 2016. Memberships expire on December 31. Dues for 2016 remain the same low price of $25 for individuals and $30 for families. Use the form on Keith Burkhart the back of the newsletter to renew your membership, or download the form IFFF Representative from the Santiam Flycasters website (www.santiamflycasters.com). You can drop Bob Karau off the signed membership renewal form and payment at the December 10th holi- Jerrold Martisak day banquet meeting, or mail to: Santiam Flycasters, PO Box 691, Salem, OR 97308. Don Meyer Steve Reynolds As an added incentive to renew your membership early, members renewing their Josh Richmond membership before the end of January 2016 may purchase an SFC name tag for only $5 (a 50% discount), and new members can obtain a name tag for free. Indi- Board Members Wanted cate your interest in having a name tag on the application form. The Santiam Flycasters want you! We are looking for a few good men and women. If you are inter- 2016 Officers and Board ested in helping decide who our presenters are and where we go for our Loren Bergerson will be President of the Santiam Flycasters for 2016. Thank you, outings, please join us. Loren! Or, if you just want to find out what goes on Other officers are Dwight Klemin-Vice President, Sam Thomas-Secretary, and Tim during the board meet- Johnson-Treasurer. ings or want to share your opinion; please join us. No experience needed, The Board members have agreed to continue their service in 2016. We are al- just your interest in fly fish- ways looking for new or additional Board members and welcome anyone who ing is all it takes to be a wants to help our club set and organize the club’s direction and activities. It also board member. is a great setting to get a bunch of inside information on fishing! Page 3 You Shop Fishing with the Frog—What’s Your Excuse?? Amazon Gives www.smile.amazon.com By Howard Palmer AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to Have you noticed the lack of support your favorite folks on the water recent- charitable organization every ly? Have you even been to the time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at water to see if there is any one smile.amazon.com, you will is out there? What is your find the exact same prices, problem? Are you going to let vast selection and convenient shopping experience as a little rain and wind deter you Amazon.com, with the added from the one thing that gives bonus that Amazon will meaning to your life? Fly Fish- donate a portion of the purchase price to your ing!! favorite charitable organization. Not you. Me. These are ques- Among these are a number of tions that have filled my brain charitable organizations lately as I gaze out the window at the rain drops pelting my dining room related to habitat, windows. My pontoon boat hangs droopily over the car from the ceiling in conservation, and other efforts that fly fishers may be the garage; emphasizing its own sadness, as we stare at each other in pass- interested in. ing. One of our members designates the gift to go Long ago, a good friend tried to get me into winter steelhead fishing. As I towards the Yellowstone recall, it was just after Thanksgiving and the rain was beating heavily on the Park Foundation, but also windshield as we drove into the Coast Range, to the head waters of the notes that there are several TU groups represented as Siletz River. The rain quit somewhere around Fall City, but the higher we well as the Northwest climbed into the mountains, the lower the temperature fell. By the time we Association of Steelheaders. reached the pull out above some secret spot my friend had selected, the You are free to choose which rain was falling in earnest, but he promised it was a good thing that would ever listed charity you wish. make me a believer in the glorious sport of winter steelhead fishing. Yea, Just wanting to make the club aware of this opportunity. right! For more information go to About all I remember of the trip was the muddy trail that we slipped and smile.amazon.com. slid on, as we descended to the river; knowing full well that I was going to have to climb back up that slick SOB in order to get home. In the end, the only thing I caught was a cold, and the concept of standing knee deep in a river while continually having to break the ice from the eyes of my rod, was etched indelibly in my mind. I realize today that the experi- ence was probably good for me though, because I certainly became much wiser for it. Today, the cold winter rains are once again falling in earnest, as I type this in front of a warm fire, with a hot buttered rum within reach, and my faithful Chihuahua by my side. What’s your excuse?? Merry Christmas * * * * * (< Snow flakes) See you on the water. Page 4 November Outing Report Well, Mother Nature caused us to cancel both of our November outings, one due to low water and one due to high water! That concludes our 2015 outings unless you want to do an informal one through our “sfc-fish” email list. Detroit Reservoir now has enough water to launch your boat. For 2016, our Board will be setting up those outings at its December 7 meeting. If you have suggestions or comments for 2016 outings, either con- tact any of the Board members or just come to the Board meeting and partici- pate in setting up the list. This is a chance to propose one of those fishing spots that you always wanted P.O. Box 691 to visit and fish! We appreciate your opinions and ideas. Salem, OR 97308 [email protected] www. Santiamflycasters.com Following his November presentation Mike Schmeirer gave Sam a homemade fly tying vise featuring a Vise Grip as the jaws for holding the hook. This vise is also capable of rotating the hook. Thank you, Mike and Good Luck Sam on your fly tying career! Page 5 Back on my job as a salesman for a local fly Shop while browsing a fly fishing magazine I discovered that my unorthodox cast was a crude spey cast, a cast the Scots developed in the mid-1800’s on the river Spey in Scotland.