What's up?
~JANUARY~
Club Annual Installation Dinner is Saturday January 19th at the Tracy Community Center (950 East St). Doors open at 4 pm. This year's event has SOLD OUT.
REMEMBER... There is no Club Meeting this month... see you in February at the Tracy Transit Station.
~DECEMBER~
December 18th
is the Club's Annual Meeting of the Membership. Come and cast your
vote for next year's Club Officers. The meeting will also feature slide
show presentations of trips our members made during this previous year.
~NOVEMBER~
Guest Speaker for this month's meeting is-
Mark Papazian
Lost Coast Steelhead
Reminder Installation Dinner tickets will be on sale at the next meeting!
~OCTOBER~
Check out our October Newsletter, just click the left tab for Newsletter and click open October 2013
October 16th:Club Meeting starts at 7:00pm, at the Tracy Transit Station
Guest Speaker for this month's meeting is-
Ken Hanley
DO NOT MISS THE NEXT MEETING AS THE WORLD'S MOST INTERESTING ANGLER WILL BE HERE LIVE!
A note from Ken on his program-
If
you live in California – and I know you do – there’s no reason to put your gear
away for the off season. The Great Golden State doesn’t have an off season!
Freshwater, warmwater, saltwater, coldwater, all combine to give a great
opportunity to explore year-round with a fly rod. Ken will present his ideas on
staying in the game all year long and tipping the scales in your favor.
Remember
to bring protection, if you are planning on sitting in the first 2
rows. Goggles and rain jackets recommended as it could get wet.
~SEPTEMBER~
September 18th:Club Meeting starts at 7:00pm, at the Tracy Transit Station
Guest Speaker for this month's meeting is-
Anthony Carruesco is
a Northern California native who grew up exploring the streams and
rivers of the North State fishing for trout and steelhead. He is a
recent graduate of Sonoma State University with a degree in
Environmental Science with an emphasis on conservation and
restoration. Anthony held an internship with the Salmon Protection and
Watershed Network (SPAWN) and conducted two years of research on Pacific
Salmon and steelhead population declines with a focus on the reasons
and solutions. He also attended the Sweetwater Guide School in Montana
where he graduated at the top of his class. Since Guide School, Anthony
has spent summers guiding in Alaska at Wilderness Place Lodge and currently at Kulik Lodge.
During the Fall, Winter and Spring months, Anthony calls Redding, CA
home. Anthony’s passion for fly fishing and the outdoors is infectious
and his easy going personality and exceptional technical skills are
appreciated by all.
Anthony
will be speaking about the seasons on The Sac, which is the "Lower
Sac" from Redding to Red Bluff section. It highlights the four seasons
and talks about the trout and steelhead opportunities the river provides
year round.
~AUGUST~
August 21st:Club Meeting starts at 7:00pm, at the Tracy Transit Station
This month's speaker is Jeff Thompson
Jeff
has been the executive director at CalTrout since Sept 2010. He's been
a resident of CA since '87 and has fished extensively around the
state. He'll talk a little bit about fishing but primarily will give
the club insight into some of the ~35 large scale restoration CalTrout
projects around the state: Hat Creek, Fall River, McCloud, Klamath, Hot
Creek / Upper Owens, Eel, and more.
~JULY~
Casting with the Famous Tony Yap! Come down and get some great advise to improve your casting.
Tony has been involved in the sport of fly fishing
for more than 35 years. My casting
stroke has been described as being smooth and effortless without sacrificing
accuracy and distance.
~JUNE~
Our next meeting of the Tracy Fly Fishers will be on Wednesday, June 19th, "Picnic at the Park".
Meeting will be at the Veterans Park, 238 Glenhaven Dr , 4:00 – 8:00pm
(Cooking starts at 5:00)
June 20TH-23RD 2013 - Davis Lake
With
the elimination of Pike, Davis was really looking like its old self for
last year's fishout... and it can only be getting better! The goal is
to try and hit the famous Davis Damsel Hatch which is almost
predictable at this time in June. Due to the travel distance, we make
this a 3 day outing. Typically club members stay at one of three public
campgrounds and get together not only for fishing, but for some good
camaraderie and pot luck meals.
Pre meeting will be June 13th (7:30pm) in the Starbucks located inside Safeway on 11th Street.
~MAY~
Hal Jansen
Hal Janssen is a nationally known writer, artist, lecturer, and
video personality. He has been fly fishing for over 50 years and has fished
extensively throughout the North and South America for nearly every species of
fresh and salt water fish. Hal's account of his first steelhead
trip was wading wet in the winter because no one made waders for 9 year old
kids in 1952. The old timers from the
Golden Gate Casting Club adopted him, setting him up with a shooting head and
teaching him to cast.
Hal’s self-confidence and fiery enthusiasm seem to guide him in
everything he does.
This is a not to be missed program!
~APRIL~
Craig Gitting's program "Chile's Patagonia"
Traveling north out of the town of
Coyhaique, you transition thru fertile rural valleys and pass thru gated dirt
roads onto private pastoral land which in turn gives way in short order to a
vast roadless wilderness at a river's edge. Under a canopy of trees, a beret
wearing Juan Claudio greets us where three 40-50 horse jet powered pontoon boats
await to transport us down river. Our gear is transferred into dry bags while we
don our waders and rain gear for the trip down river. For next week, we will
fish the river, lakes and lagoons of the Picacho River Valley and not see
another soul until evening back at the lodge. Imagine having a whole lake to
yourself? Not even another boat? Only in Chile's Patagonia.
Come enjoy the stories at the April club
meeting.
~ MARCH ~
March 20th: Club Meeting starts at 7:00pm, at the Tracy Transit Station.
Gary Howard will present 2 shows.
The first show is the Upper Kern. In 2004 we went on a trip sponsored by Fish
and Game, FFF, Trout Unlimited, and Cal Trout.
The objective of the trip was to collect DNA samples of Golden Trout in
the Upper Kern. We tried to get 40 DNA
samples from each of about 20 different locations. The testing of these samples told us that
every Golden Trout planted by the Fish and Game since 1935 was crossed with
Rainbow trout. This is a tough
trip. You park your car at Symmes Creek
Trailhead, (5,600 feet) hike 10 miles to Shepard Pass (12,600 feet), and then
another 5 miles to the basin.
The second show is of Cottonwood Basin Lakes. This is the place that the Fish and Game
takes eggs and sperm from netted fish and hatch them in their hatcheries. These are the Golden Trout that have been
planted through out the Sierras since 1935.
It is not a tough trip into the Cottonwood Lakes basin. This is a trip you can do. You can park your car at 10,000 feet and hike
to 11,200 feet in two hours to Cottonwood Basin. There you have a choice of ten lakes to catch
Golden Trout.
Come
on down and sign up for fly fishing and tying classes. Learn how to get
free casting instruction once a month from a certified casting
instructor! The only way is to show up at the next meeting and see what
Tracy Fly Fishers have to offer. Everyone is welcome to join us.
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check the TFF Events Calendar for more info on any date shown below
THANKS
to one and ALL of you that attended this year's Installation Dinner!
You all had a hand in making it another HUGE success !!
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Congratulations to Pat Ferguson and his award of being named the 2012
Fly Fisher of the Year!
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Congratulations also to Mark McLean and his award of being named the 2012
Dry Fly Award recipient!
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See you in FEBRUARY at the first Club Meeting of 2013
Ernie Gully will present "Crowley Lake Fishing Tactics"
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Check out the latest Newsletter for February, just hit the "Newsletter" tab on the left.
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Now is also a great time to renew your membership for 2013.
