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October 2016

2016 OFFICERS President-Ted Poston 509-438-0531 tmpkap29@charter.net First VP-Membership: Rich Holten Second VP-Programs: Craig Anderson Treasurer: Jeff Drowley Secretary: Mike Wade Directors at large: Dale Schielke John Strand Dennis Collins Newsletter Editor: Ron Reed Past President: Jim Loomis

MEETINGS Second Tuesday of every month except March, July, and August at Country Gentlemen 9221 W Clearwater Kennewick, WA 6:00pm -Wet Fly-no host 6:30pm -Dinner-$15 7:15pm -Program - free

MEMBERSHIP DUES $25/yr Indiv&Family $35/yr Business To change address or phone number contact Rich Holten: 509 521-4291 rpba@charter.net

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UPCOMING FISHING EVENTS

Oct-Nov Volunteer opportunity each Tuesday at Ringold Hatchery. See page 10 for details.

CLUB PURPOSE: To promote fly fishing, to conserve regional fishing resources, and to encourage friendship and cooperation among all anglers.

NEXT MEETING: 11Oct at Country Gentlemen in Kennewick. See side panel for meeting details.

PROGRAM: FISHING REPORTS by CBFC Club members.

Sheldon Coleman will tell us about Bass Heaven in Hell’s Canyon, which is rated by a number of publications as the best smallmouth bass fishing on the west coast. This 4-day trip through the wilderness section of Hells Canyon, was Sheldon’s first time fishing for bass. He caught 2 to 4-lb smallies almost non-stop with much of the action on surface poppers. "I had never caught a bass before and my heart nearly stopped when the first 4-pounder absolutely demolished my deer hair popper. There are not enough expletives to accurately describe bass fishing in Hells canyon!"

Ron Reed and other Fork Frenzy Fishing Fanatics will tell us about fishing the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River and Yellowstone Park last June. The talk includes some very instructive underwater

videos that show how your fly and leader look to the fish.

President’s Spool by Ted Poston

First, let me thank those that contacted us when they had to bail on their reservations for September’s meeting. That kind of attentiveness allows us to meet our obligations for meals and is greatly appreciated by the Club and Country Gentleman. We are entering fall and it has been a great summer with lots of fishing and Club sponsored activities. The Board has worked hard to provide meaningful activities that support fly-fishing. I am coordinating an effort to have the Club represented at “science nights” in local middle schools. There is a strong emphasis in public schools on STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Club members can help by demonstrating how to tie flies and by helping middle school students also tie a fly. The science behind fly fishing will be emphasized – essentially a match the hatch approach on how flies are designed and fished to simulate fish prey. There will be signup sheet pasted around at the Club meeting if you would like to help develop and support this activity. You can also call or email me if interested. Every year at this time, the Board initiates a search for new Board members for next year. Many current Board members have served multiple terms; some have served over ten years. It is always good to bring in new people with fresh ideas and enthusiasm to keep the Club active and moving. Please consider volunteering for a Club officer/Board position. You can contact any Board member if you have questions. There are descriptions of the Board positions in the May CBFC newsletter accessible at the Club’s webpage (Link to May Newsletter and Officer job descriptions).

And last, we are looking at a great fall fishing season, get out and rip some lips.

Book Signing Event CBFC Club member Dennis Dauble, Chairman of the Conservation Committee, has published another book of short stories, “One More Last Cast: On the Addictive Nature of Fishing.” Club member, Ron Reed, Newsletter Editor, contributed the cover photo and chapter illustrations for the book.

A review of the book by Terry Sheely, author of The Northwest Sportsman Almanac and Washington State Fishing Guide, reads: "Smokey campfires, cranky outboards, dirt roads, warm beer, fickle fishing partners, and bad decisions that seemed so right at the time. Perfect ingredients for great outdoor stories." Club members can purchase signed copies at the October meeting for $10, a 20% discount. Dauble will also offer the newly published 2nd edition of “Fishes of the Columbia Basin,” and his first collection of short stories, “The Barbless Hook: Inner Sanctum of Angling Revealed,” at discount. More information on these books can be found on his website: DennisDaubleBooks.com.

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ILLUSTRATION BYRON REED

KNOW ANY PROSPECTIVE CBFC MEMBERS?

Please forward a copy of this newsletter to them, and bring them to the next meeting.

tight lines and BIG fish.Ron Reed, Newsletter Editor

Get to Know Your Club Members

Sheldon Coleman Tell us about your first fish: I think my first fish was a trout from an old quarry lake in the South Tacoma area. Who Taught you to fish? My dad set me up with some gear and showed me the rudiments. I kind of taught myself the rest, as I went with another kid in my neighborhood to the fishing holes.

What are some local venues you like to fish: I fish Lenice in the Spring. I used to fish Lenore and Dry Falls, but these have dropped off in the last few years What are some destination venues you like to fish: I always fish the early Spring, April, out of Twin Bridges, MT. I fish mostly the Big Hole, Madison, or Jefferson Rivers. I also like to camp and fish in Idaho during the Summer on the Selway, St. Joe, and North Fork of the Clearwater Rivers. What are some of your Go-To flies for still water? …for creeks? …for rivers?: I have tried many flies but now only use and tie a few that I use everywhere : Elk Hair Caddis in olive, orange and black, Orange Stimulator, Parachute Adams, Mosquito, ants, and foam Hoppers. Also Nymphs: BH Hairs Ear, BH Prince, Chironomids & San Juan Worms. I really love bobbers, are they a fly? What kind of fish to you target most often?: I have been a cutthroat purist until I did a raft trip this summer fishing for bass in Hells Canyon. I definitely will be doing some more bass fishing. What are some of your favorite fishing books and magazines?: Fly Patterns for Stillwaters, by Philip Rowley; Strategies for

Selective Trout, A Scientific Anglers DVD; Fly Fishing-the Lifetime Sport, A DVD by David and Cheryl Young; NW Fly Fishing Magazine; and Cabela's Fly Fishing Catalog! What is it about the sport of fishing that keeps you involved?: The people that I meet fly fishing are great, but for me they are the frosting on the cake. What keeps me expending the effort to get back to the wilderness rivers is the rush when a 20 inch cutthroat rolls on a dry fly leaving only a wake and a bent rod behind!

Catch and Release Tip A high rod angle is the least effective method of landing a fish quickly and efficiently. You can often land a fish more quickly with sideways pressure which will enhance fish survival after release. Keep the rod tip lower to place greater pressure on the fish and to keep the fish deeper in the water. This also helps avoid injuring the fish or having the fish throw the hook while it is splashing and floundering on the surface. When the fish is ready to come to the net, then lift your rod tip to slide the fish to the net.

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SHELDON COLEMAN WITH A BIG HOLE RIVER, MT, BROWN TROUT

Fly Fishing Norway by Denny Kreid

Sue and I were privileged to spend three weeks last August touring the fjord country of western Norway. After my bag caught up with us two days after arrival, the rest of the trip was truly an exhilarating experience! The highlight of the trip for me was three days of guided fly fishing for Atlantic salmon.

Accommodations and guide services were provided by the Norwegian Fly Fishing Club (NFC) at their new lodge on the banks of the River Gaula south of Trondheim. Arrangements for the trip were made through the Fly Shop in Redding, CA. The Fly Shop was especially helpful in negotiating with NFC

to arrange a very affordable three day stay versus their normal minimum of a week. NFC assigned me their most capable guide, Simon Ketcher, who has over 30-years experience guiding on the Gaula. Simon provided expert instruction on spey casting, and proved to be a witty and thoroughly engaging person to spend time with on the river. Perhaps even more importantly, Simon kept me from falling, which in my impending dotage is becoming a bigger problem every day. All accommodations, food, staff

assistance, and guide services provided by NFC were outstanding in every respect. The weather was great for fly fishing - mild, generally overcast with little wind. The river was in good shape and there were fresh fish in the river every day. Although fishing was generally slow, with ten fishermen operating out of the lodge there were typically a half dozen fish landed per day. The largest fish, a 31 pounder, was caught by a young man on his first fly fishing trip! In addition Simon caught one of 26 pounder on his day off before our arrival. Best of all - wait for it - on the afternoon of my last day on the river I caught an Atlantic salmon on a fly! Although it was not a large fish, it was an Atlantic salmon! I don’t know who was happier or more relieved, me or Simon!

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DENNY KREID SIMON KETCHER

RIVER GAULA, NORWAY

Anthony Lakes Outing

Report by Craig Anderson

Our annual Club outing to Anthony Lakes, OR, Sep 8-11 was well attended with 27 people. Twelve RV campers

and three tents literally overflowed what was supposed to be a ten-unit capacity campground. The weather was cool but beautiful with cloudless skies and light breezes. Thursday night was cool with a low of 29F. The fishing was not as good as in years past, and several members went to adjacent Grande Ronde Lake and caught more fish than in Anthony Lake. Fly fishers caught mostly rainbows, but many caught brook trout as well. The Saturday spaghetti dinner came off ok. Plenty of wine

was consumed, and camp fires with lively conversations occurred in the evenings. Thanks to all who came and to those that contributed to the Saturday night dinner. We all had a good time despite slower than normal fishing.

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Name that Hatch Submitted by Dennis Dauble

Hatch on the Columbia River near Foundation Island in late August 2016. What are they?

When to Weight the Tippet

Here is an interesting article on the pros and cons of using weighted flies versus using weight on the tippet to get your fly down to the level where fish are feeding. Read it at the Fly Fisherman website: Weight-the-Tippet

Bateman Island Enhancement Plan

The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group and the WDFW are developing options to increase flow around Bateman Island at the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers. More info is available here: http://midcolumbiafisheries.org/restoration/fish-passage/yakima-delta-assessment/

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DISCLAIMER The opinions or endorsements of products or services expressed or

implied in this Newsletter are solely the responsibility of the author, or the Editor

if no author is listed; and do not necessarily reflect the

consensus of CBFC members.

Likewise, website links are only for reader convenience and information.

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LAHONTAN CUTTHROAT

LAKE LENORE, WAHOME TO LAHONTAN CUTTHROATS

LAHONTAN CUTTHROAT…..LARGEST SUBSPECIES OF CUTTHROAT. NEVADA STATE FISH

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Skip Morris' Bass Flies by Craig Anderson

Before the Sep Club meeting, Skip Morris gave a bass, fly-tying demo at Meadow Springs Country Club. Seventeen club members attended. Skip tied four flies all of his own design. Each attendee was provided a syllabus of the flies tied including a Clouser Minnow that he didn't tie.

SMP (Skip Morris Panfish) originator Skip Morris HOOK: Standard to heavy wire, standard length to 1X long (I like the Daiichi 1560), sizes 12 to 6 (for pan-fishes, bigger for the basses). THREAD: Orange flat waxed nylon. EYES: Lead Substitute barbell for a fast-sinking fly, or bead-chain eyes. BODY: Sparkling orange synthetic dubbing (Antron, SLF, AZ Sparkle Nymph…). Wing: An orange marabou plume over a yellow plume; a few strands of fine pearl Mylar such as Angel Hair between the plumes is optional. If you bind the wing on with crisscrossed turns of thread over the stem of the eyes, and whip finish the thread crossways between the eyes, the wing will be fuller than if you bind the plumes directly around the shank. Comments: Tie it in purple, black, red, green—whatever color or colors you like. Originally a pan-fish fly (SMP, “Skip Morris Pan [fish fly]”), it’s a deadly smallmouth fly tied in the larger sizes. I prefer somber colors for clear smallmouth river like tan, olive, cream, brown.

SKIP’S QUIVERING CRAY, TAN Skip Morris HOOK: Heavy wire, 2X (or 1X) long, down eye, sizes 8 to 4. THREAD: Tan 3/0. EYES/TAIL: Barbell eyes, painted tan with kid’s paints, and then coated with epoxy glue when the fly is completed. EYES (optional): Black Mono eyes on stems. ANTENNAE: Fine black rubber-strand, two lengths doubled. Trim the outside strands longer than the inside strands. NOSE: Use a tuft of the body dubbing. THORAX: Rabbit blended with short strands of tan, pearl, and silver Mylar, or Arizona Sparkle Nymph dubbing in Skip’s Tannish Brown. CLAWS: Natural or bleached pheasant tail. LEGS: Tan medium-diameter rubber strand. I prefer barred. ABDOMEN: Same dubbing as used for the thorax. COMMENTS: Tie it in brown, olive, even try blue. Crayfish turn a fairly bright blue after molting.

MORRIS MINNOW, JIG HOOK, SMALLMOUTH originator Skip Morris HOOK: Standard to heavy wire jig hook, sizes 12 to 4. BEAD: Copper metal bead. A tungsten bead will hurry this fly down. THREAD: Gold or light-yellow 6/0 or 3/0. BODY: Sections of fine Mylar (Angel Hair, Lite Brite…), pearl on the underside, gold or pale yellow (maybe with a little light olive) doubled back along the sides, darkish olive on top. Trim the Mylar to a fish-body shape. HEAD: Gold or pale-yellow dubbing to build a foundation. The final section of Mylar is built over this dubbing-foundation. Paint the head with kid's acrylic poster paint: olive back, bare thread sides, white underside, red gill slashes, red eyes with black pupils. Coat the head with clear epoxy glue. COMMENTS: This jig-hook version’s caught me scads of smallmouth, largemouth, crappie, bluegill, even some trout and a Tennessee channel cat.

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Skip’s Quivering Cray

SMP

Morris Minnow

Predator

Photos by Craig Anderson

PREDATOR, TAN originator Skip Morris HOOK: Heavy wire, short-shank wet-fly hook (I like the Daiichi 1550), sizes 10 and 8 (8 and larger for the basses). THREAD: Tan 3/0. TAILS: Pearl Krystal Flash cut short. Outside the Krystal Flash, fine yellow, white, or black rubber-strand pushed through the foam body in a needle and bound to the shank. BODY, HEAD, and COLLAR: 2mm Tan foam sheeting, (maybe thicker for large hooks…), cut into a strip, bound down the shank, doubled back for a head, trimmed for a collar. RIB: Pearl Ice Dub spun on the working thread and spiraled up the bound foam strip. EYES: Black plastic barbell eyes LEGS: Black-barred-yellow, medium-diameter, rubber-strand, one section bound on each side of the shank back behind the collar and against the body. The Predator is also a fine attractor trout fly for rivers; I like to add fine antennae for trout.

CLOUSER MINNOW, SMALLMOUTH originator Bob Clouser and Lefty Kreh HOOK: Heavy wire, 2X to 4X long, sizes 10 to 2. THREAD: Olive (or brown with a brown wing) 3/0. EYES: Metal barbell eyes, preferably pre-painted red with black pupils. BELLY: White buck tail. WING: Olive (or brown) buck tail (for smaller hooks try squirrel) over a few strands of gold Krystal Flash or Flashabou, or both. COMMENTS: Although this is an easy fly to tie overall, mounting the eyes far enough back from the hook’s eye to leave room for binding on the wing and making the head is critical.

I was able to find step-by-step tying instructions on the Internet for two flies at www.flyfishohio.com/Predator.htm (Predator) and https://vimeo.com/69772934 (SMP (Skip Morris Panfish)). Tying instructions for Skip's Quivering Cray, the Clauser Minnow and SMP are found in Skip's book, The Art of Tying the Bass Fly, 2nd Edition, which can be checked out from the CBFC Library. Have fun tying these effective patterns.

Volunteers Needed by Dale Schielke

Want to catch about 100 salmon plus a few steelhead in a day? Volunteers are needed to assist WDFD hatchery staff at the Ringold Hatchery fish trap. Several volunteers are needed for each Tuesday in October and November. Duties include catching fish in the trap so they can be sexed, counted, and vital data collected/recorded prior to being iced down in bins to for transport to the processor. The surplus fish are processed into salmon burgers for distribution to the Food Banks. Activities will start about 8:30a and last for 3-4 hours, depending upon the number of fish in the trap. The work is fairly strenuous, but fun. Waders and rain suits are worn to help staying dry which are furnished by WDFW. If you are interested in volunteering, please call Dale Schielke at 375-0183. He will coordinate getting volunteers registered with WDFW and recording volunteer hours.

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SKIP MORRIS

Bass Fishing with Skip & Carol Morris

by Rich Holten

The day after the September meeting, Skip and Carol Morris, Craig Anderson, and I floated the Yakima River for smallmouth bass. We floated from the Horn Rapids

dam launch down to West Richland. The smallmouth fishing was not as hot as in August, but we each caught about 10 fish. Carol caught a beautiful 19 ¾” smallie on a blue “Quiverin Cray”. She claimed the blue color represented a crayfish that had just molted. Don’t be mislead by the photo – she’s the photographer so Skip had to hold her fish! Shortly afterward, Craig caught a feisty 17” smallie. The season may be winding

down, but it’s always a good time to tie more bass flies.

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CRAIG ANDERSONWITH BIG GRIN AND YAKIMA RIVERSMALLMOUTH BASS

SKIP HOLDS CAROL’S BASS,THE BIGGEST OF THE DAY!

Board Meeting Minutes for

27Sep2016 mtg by Mike Wade

Call to order: 7:02 PM Board Members Present: Ted Poston, Mike Wade, Jim Loomis, John Strand, Dennis Collins, Ron Reed, Jeff Drowley, Craig Anderson, Dale Schielke.

Secretary’s Report – Mike Wade presented minutes from the August Board meeting. The minutes were reviewed and accepted. Treasurer’s Report – Jeff Drowley presented the Treasurer’s Report which the Board reviewed and approved.

VP Membership Report – Rich Holten was absent and no Membership Report was presented. Jeff Drowley announced that two new memberships have been received.

Programs Report – Craig Anderson reported that the October meeting will feature programs from Sheldon Coleman about bass fishing in Hell’s Canyon and Ron Reed about fishing Henry’s Fork. November will feature Chad Gillespie from Fjord Fly Fishing who will discuss sea run cutthroat fishing in Hood Canal. December will be the club’s annual Christmas Party and gift exchange.

Newsletter Editor’s Report – Ron Reed announced that the next newsletter will be published on October 5.

Other Business –

Donation – Ted Poston reported that the club has received a substantial donation of equipment, tying material, and books from Sam Izzo. The Board discussed alternative dispositions of this donation and has elected to put the books into the Club’s library and turn the majority of the other material over

to Reed Kaldor for use in the Club’s raffles and Banquet Auction.

Casting for Recovery – Three members will assist the participants at the annual Casting for Recovery retreat on October 2. From the donation listed above, Ted has put together a small fly box for each retreat participants which will be presented to them on behalf of CBFC.

Monthly Dinner – Ted Poston reported that he and Mike Wade met with management at The Country Gentleman to discuss some concerns and issues that have arisen, including parking and occasional food shortages and to negotiate the contract for the next year. All items were satisfactorily resolved and the Board approved the new contract.

Nominations for 2017 Board – The Board discussed the need to develop a slate of candidates for election to the 2017 Board. Volunteers for positions will be solicited at the next meeting and through the newsletter.

Youth Outreach – Ted Poston reported that he has had discussions with several of the local middle schools about having the Club participate in their Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Programs. He has received positive feedback and the Board approved the concept. The next step will be to begin developing appropriate activities and solicit volunteers.

Fly Tying Demonstration – Hyrum Taylor has volunteered to conduct fly tying demonstrations during the Wet Fly portion of the Club’s monthly meetings. The Board approved.

Meeting adjourned at 8:15 PM.

Respectfully submitted, Mike Wade, Secretary

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