Search Santiam Flycasters SANTIAM FLYCASTERS SANTIAMFLYCASTERS.COM February 2017 2017 Annual Auction and Spaghetti Feast Thursday, February 9 Doors open at 6:00 pm, Pringle Community Center Come enjoy the Santiam Flycasters Annual Auction. Bring your significant other or a friend who may be interested in fly fishing, and enjoy a scrumptious spaghetti meal. Suggested donation for the dinner is $6.00 per plate. The doors will open at 6:00 pm and dinner will be served at around 7:00 pm. The auction will have around 100 items just waiting for your bid(s), including lots of fly fishing items, camping gear, clothing, fly tying tools and materials, instructional material. Hand-tied flies by club members and many other great items. We will have several premium items in our usual bucket raffle, so you can buy raffle tickets at our regular prices of $1 and throw them into the bucket(s) of your choice. Our live auction will start after dinner. As always, we have a number of premium items, access to a Oregon Fishing Club lake (of which there are several), a beautiful intarsia-style wood sculpture created for the auction by Bob Karau, and the grand prize an expertly prepared Paella dinner for 10 by Steve Morton at your home. Board Meeting Monday February 6 7:00 pm Garibaldi Family Restaurant General Meeting Thursday February 9 7:00 pm Pringle Community Center In This Issue February Outing to Devil s Lake Renewed Your Membership Yet? 2017 SFC Officers New Santiam Flycasters Caps are Here! January Outing to Wi-Ne-Ma Lake Report Tip for the Month: Fly Pattern Should Always be the Last Thing Your Change 2017 List of SFC Outings Santiam Flycasters on TV! 2017 Membership Application The Annual Auction is our major fundraiser of the year. Come and enjoy this fun event while you support the club by bidding high and often on many of the fabulous auction items.
Page 2 Santiam Flycasters BOARD AND OFFICERS Loren Bergerson President Jerrold Martisak Vice President/Programs Bill Cruscial Secretary Tim Johnson Treasurer/Membership Board Members Will and Reenie Satak Concessions Nancy Beeson Raffles Matt Neznanski Webmaster Leroy Shepherd Newsletter Layout/Design Howard Palmer Newsletter Editor Keith Burkhart IFFF Representative Bob Karau Ken Karnosh Dwight Klemin Don Meyer Steve Reynolds Board Members Wanted The Santiam Flycasters want you! We are looking for a few good men and women. If you are interested in helping decide who our presenters are and where we go for our outings, please join us. Or, if you just want to find out what goes on during the board meetings or want to share your opinion; please join us. No experience needed, just your interest in fly fishing is all it takes to be a board member. February 18 Devils Lake Outing Come and join us when we fish Devils Lake near Lincoln City on February 18. Devils Lake has a fair population of resident cutthroats as well as holdover rainbows, both of which can be nice size, and possibly some smolts. A floating device of some kind is best although one may fish from the boat dock. To get there, drive Highway 22 west, merge onto Highway 18 near Willamina and drive west to Highway 101, turn left (south) onto Highway 101 for about a mile, turn left onto East Devils Lake Road, and drive about 3 miles to the East Devils Lake boat launch on your right. Since the southbound boat ramp sign may not be there, watch for the back of the State Park sign on the left. It is located about a mile north of the factory outlet stores. For those interested, we will carpool/caravan from the West Salem Safeway leaving at 7:30. Suggested gear is 4-6 weight rods with either floating or intermediate line, since the lake is fairly shallow. Flies include woolly buggers or leeches in green, black, or brown, soft hackles, possie buggers, and chironomids. The club will provide a lunch entrée around noon so bring a small side dish to share if you wish. It's Time to Renew Your Santiam Flycasters Membership If you haven t done so already, this is an excellent time to renew your Santiam Flycasters membership for 2017. Membership expired on December 31. Dues for 2017 remain the same low price of $25 for individuals and $30 for families. Use the form on the back of the newsletter to renew your membership, or download the form from the Santiam Flycasters website (www.santiamflycasters.com). You can drop off the signed membership renewal form and payment at the Thursday, January 12th monthly meeting, or mail it to: Santiam Flycasters, PO Box 691, Salem, OR 97308. The New Santiam Flycasters Caps Are Here! Featuring the Santiam Flycasters logo, the caps come in two colors, tan and sage. The price remains a low $12.00. Pick one up at any of the upcoming monthly meetings. They make an excellent gift.
Page 3 Fly Pattern Should Always be the Last Thing You Change (from an online article by George C. Costa. See below for link to the full article) When fish are actively rising and your fly has gone over them 4-5 times, change it up. Actively feeding fish will generally rise to a fly if you ve got the right size and presentation. As with nymphing, look to adjust size before pattern, but if the takes still don t come, don t waste your time pounding the water with a dud, odds are you ll spook the fish and put them down before you hook them. More often than not the fish are eating the hatch you re not seeing, aka the hidden hatch. There may be size 8 Drakes all over the place, but I d bet the ranch they re eating the size 16 sulphers you re ignoring. The best anglers can catch fish on flies that look like cat puke. Fishing correctly will always produce more results than fishing the correct fly. Focus on the other aspects of your angling and make adjustments to your rig or fly size before you lose confidence in your pattern. Pattern can play an integral part in determining your angling success, just remember that it should be the last thing you adjust on the water. Outing Report January 28 Wi-Ne-Ma Lake We had about 15 club members travel to the Coast for the first outing of the new year. The day was a welcome reprieve from the rough January weather experienced so far. Overcast skies with the sun occasionally peaking through and calm winds made it a nice day to get out the pontoon boats, open the fly box, and get out on the water. A number in the group reported catching and releasing ten or more of the feisty cutthroat trout that inhabit Wi-Ne-Ma Lake. We call them feisty as most were in the 8-10 inch range. However, one was reported at stretching the tape at 13 inches. The most action seemed to occur in the first hour on the water, then things cooled off with only occasional strikes. A welcome and warming lunch of chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, and green beans pulled us off the water at noon and turned in a wonderful time to visit, make plans, and tell tales. Thank you Jean Shepherd of Wi-Ne-Ma Christian Camp. All in all, 2017 is starting off well for the Santiam Flycasters. Hope to see you all on February 18 as we go down the coast a bit and sample Devil s Lake for our February Outing. http://www.hatchmag.com/ articles/fly-pattern-shouldalways-be-last-thing-youchange/7714313
Page 4 2017 Outings It s time to mark your 2017 calendars for our club outings. The Board included many of our popular past locations and added a couple of new ones. Should be something for everyone! January 28-Lake Wi-Ne-Ma February 18-Devils Lake March 18-Deschutes River (Beavertail) April 8-Willamette River (Harrisburg) May 13-McKenzie River (Hayden-Armitage) May 20-Crooked River June 17-Trail Bridge Reservoir June 24-Deschutes River (Trout Creek) July 8-East Lake July 19 (Wednesday)-Three Creek lake August 12-Willamette River (Keizer) August 26-Little Nestucca River September 9-Hosmer Lake September 16-Walton Lake September 23-Umpqua River (Elkton) October 14-Crooked River October 21-Deschutes River (Trout Creek) November 11-Devils Lake Ready to Rock! That is a lot! The Board may, though, consider adding another one or more. Gone To Lunch
Page 5 Welcome these New Members in January John Ross, Salem George Hingston, Salem Welcome to the Club! Santiam Flycasters on Television! Bill Cruscial, SFC club member has started to film his 3rd episode of "The Fly Tying Show for Capitol Community Television in Salem, Oregon. Bill is retired, but taught for 36 years at the schools for the Deaf in Idaho and Oregon. He last taught Video Production at the Oregon School for the Deaf as a certified CTE (Career and Technical Education) teacher. Now that he is retired he is fulfilling one of his dreams, a TV series on fly tying. In the first and second episodes he featured two fly tyers from the club, Tim Johnson and Ken Karnosh along with Mitch Smith from the Two Rivers Fly Shop in Albany. That format worked so well that each episode will include a tyer from a local fly shop and two tyers in studio. Jay Nicholas of the Caddis Fly Shop Featured in the Next Episode This third episode includes Jay Nicholas from the Caddis Fly Shop in Eugene tying two steelhead tube flies. Later in the month James Ferguson from the SFC has agreed to come into the studio and tie two different patterns for the show. The episodes can be found on CCTV Channel 22 via the local cable or on Bill s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/billcruscial/videos
Santiam Flycasters 2017 Membership Form The Santiam Flycasters, Inc. is a group of men, women, and youths in the Salem area who have a common interest in flyfishing and have joined together to share their experiences and knowledge of the sport since 1975. The club was incorporated as an Oregon non-profit organization in March of 1977. The Santiam Flycasters, Inc. is affiliated with the Federation of Fly Fishers. The mission of the Santiam Flycasters is to promote the sport of fly-fishing for all interested individuals of every generation now and into the future. Through fellowship, education, conservation practices, promoting research, guardianship of proper regulations and support the Santiam Flycasters can succeed in this mission. We meet in Salem the second Thursday of each month (no meeting in July) at the Pringle Park Community Building 606 Church Street at 7:00 pm. www.santiamflycasters.com Mail the completed signed form to: The Santiam Flycasters, P.O. Box 691, Salem, OR 97308, or drop it off in person at our next meeting. *Dues are from January 1 st through December 31 st. For new members, there is a 50% reduction after July 1 st. Regular -- $25 Family -- $30 Youth--$10 NAME: ADDRESS/CITY/STATE/ZIP: PHONE #: EMAIL: FAMILY MEMBERS: Please tell us why you want to be member (please check all that apply): hear presentations on various fly fishing topics, improve my fly tying skills, improve my fly casting skills, participate in fishing stream and lake improvement projects, go on fishing trips with other club members, learn about fishing in the area, other (please specify: ) Are you an FFF Member? Yes No Are you interested in obtaining an SFC Name Tag? Yes No You must sign this release each year when you renew to participate in club activities. LIABILITY RELEASE AND HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENT As a condition of membership or of participation in any activity encouraged or publicized by the Santiam Flycasters, I voluntarily assume all risks of my participation. In acknowledgment that I am doing so entirely upon my own initiative, risk and responsibility I do hereby for myself, heirs, executors, and administrators agree to remise, fully release, hold harmless, and forever discharge the Santiam Flycasters, all its officers, board members and volunteers, acting officially or otherwise, from any and all claims, demands, actions or causes of actions, on account of my death or on account of any injury to me or my property that may occur from any cause whatsoever while participating in any such Santiam Flycasters activity. I acknowledge that I have carefully read this hold harmless and release agreement, and fully understand that it is a release of liability. I further acknowledge that I am waving any rights that I may have to bring legal action to assert a claim against the Santiam Flycasters for its negligence. I have read the above statement and agree to its terms as a condition of my membership in the Santiam Flycasters. X Signature Print Name Date