penticton fly fisher journal march april 2011

PENTICTON FLYFISHERS

JOURNAL

Mar/Apr 2011

— Presidents Report Page 4 & 5—Equipment Review— UTC Ultra Thread Page 6 & 7— Ocean Gybe Expedition Page 8—Advanced Stillwater Strategies seminar info Page 9 & 10 - Match the Hatch Page 11— Bucktails for Winter Rainbow Page 12— Annual Dinner Awards, & Auction info Page 13—Beer and Wine ? - by Ken Woodward Page 14— 2011 Fish Out dates Page 15— Steelhead Dreams by Tom Dellamater Page 16— Photo Gallery Page 17— Classifeids and Calendar Page 18— Tying and Fishing Techniques

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Vol. 08 Number 02, 2010

Mar/Apr 2011, Edition

Penticton Flyfishers

Box 354, 113-437 Martin St., Penticton, B.C., V2A 5L1

Editor

Bruce Turnbull

Home Ph:250-493-7386 Work Ph:250-487-2000

Fax 250-487-2049 Email: [email protected] (or)

[email protected]

President Phil Rogers

250-403-8832 [email protected]

Vice President

Ryan Winstanley 488-8757

[email protected]

Treasurer Ken Baker 493-2926

[email protected]

Secretary Peter Kruse

494-0071 [email protected]

Membership Director

Tom Knight [email protected]

The Penticton Flyfishers are members of

BC Federation of Fly Fishers (BCFFF)

BC Wildlife Federation (BCWF)

Federation of Fly Fishers

(International FFF)

Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)

Contents

Rainbow Number 1.4 million—© by Bruce Turnbull

Penticton Flyfishers New Website is

www.pentictonflyfishers.ca

PENTICTON FLYFISHERS Presidents Report by Phil Rogers

It is finally March. Hopefully it will soon be the end of winter and the cold weather. I would like to thank the outgoing Executive for a great job in 2010. We had a busy year with Fish-outs, Family Fish Day, Raffle, dock repair, Penticton Creek spawning beds, fish ladders and as-sisting the Okanagan Native Alliance Fisheries Dept with the Kokanee an-gling project in the Okanagan River Channel. Thank you to all club members who have assisted with these projects. A big thank you to this years Execu-tive members who have once again stepped up to the plate and a special welcome to the new members of the Executive, Ryan Winstanley (Vice President), Bob Holley (Director) and Will Bush (Director). We have representatives from the ONA Fisheries Dept com-ing to our March meeting. They will give us an update on the results of the Kokanee fishing in the Okanagan River Channel from last fall. They will also be advising us on fu-ture studies dealing with the Sockeye project in Skaha Lake. We have Todd Oishi present-ing his Advanced Stillwater Strategies on Saturday, 23 April 2011. This will be a full day event starting at 09:00 am at our normal meeting room.

Topics include “The Importance of Col-our”, “Advanced Stillwater Strate-gies”, “Thinking outside the Box” (UK top pro-ducing Stillwater patterns, “British Stillwater Tech-niques”, “Intro to Loch-style Fly Fishing” and Fly Tying Demo’s. I heard several of his lectures at the Haig-Brown Symposium last fall and felt he had a very good presen-tation style and a very interesting slant on things that were a little dif-ferent from Rowley and Chan. I hope everyone is able to come and hear what he has to say, I am sure you will enjoy it. Our annual Club Dinner and Auc-tion is scheduled for Saturday 30

April at the Elks Hall. We have sev-eral Fish-outs planned for the year but there is room for one or two more dates. Please let any member of your Executive know if you have a favor-ite location that you feel would be good for a club Fish-out. We are in early stages of planning for the Family Fish Day for Saturday 18 June 2011. We are trying to identify a new location to hold the event, as we may have to move it from Salter’s Pond. Please let Larry Martin or my-

self know if you have a possi-ble alternate location for the event. It must be close to Pen-ticton, easy shore access, capa-ble of holding fish in net enclo-sure and be an area where we can exercise some entry con-trol. This promises to be a very eventful year and I hope every-one will take part in as many activities as you can.

2011 Executive

Pres: Phil Rogers Vice Pres: Ryan Winstanley

Secretary: Peter Kruse Treasurer: Ken Baker

Membership: Tom Knight

Past Pres: Angus Cameron

Phil


Equipment Review- By Nick Pace

UTC Ultra Thread

Carefully developed to enhance tying per-formance. Ultra Thread has been engineered as a fly tying thread from the beginning. It is not an "off the shelf" thread as are many others. All of Ultra Thread's characteristics were carefully chosen to enhance its tying performance. Here are a few of the thread characteristics that make Ultra Thread ideal for fly tying:

We chose nylon over polyester because nylon will stretch and grip materials better. This allows for more uniform tension and gives the tyer the "feel" for maximum tension. Nylon is the same strength as polyester (given the same denier) and offers the added benefit of more intense colors and a larger range of colors. Because nylon stretches, it grips material tighter and makes the fly more durable

Our thread is flat with only the minimum number of twists needed for production. This is important because the number of twists in the thread determines how flat it can be wrapped on the hook. The flatter the thread is wrapped, the more slowly it builds up. This is a huge advantage when tying small flies or when tying close to the eye of the hook. A flat thread also grips and covers materials with fewer thread wraps.

Ultra Thread has been lightly waxed. This also limits thread build up and gives the thread a smoother, slicker feel. The added benefit is that head cement fully penetrates the thread which equals more durable flies.

Ultra Thread is a multifilament thread that is not bonded. Bonded threads are oval in shape and are stiff or coarse feeling. Bonded threads also build up fast which is a significant con-cern when tying small flies. Since Ultra Thread is not bonded, it is the best choice for split thread tying techniques.

Our spools are sized and designed to turn smoothly on standard bobbins. Each spool has a color coded end cap for product identifi-cation and to secure the tag end of the thread. In our opinion the best thread made deserves to be spooled on the best spool.

We chose 4 different denier threads in a uniform progression of size and strength to meet every fly tyers needs.

How thread is sized Denier is the textile industry's measuring standard for filament size. To measure a thread's denier, 9,000 meters of the thread are weighed. If the weight (calculated mass) of the thread is 140 grams, then that thread is considered a 140 denier thread. Using this system it is easy to understand that a 280 denier thread is twice the mass of a 140 thread and, thus, is larger in diameter and

Engineered specifically for fly tying Available in 4 sizes and 33

Brilliant colours to meet every fly tying need Even the spool was designed for fly tying


stronger. We are confident that all fly tying thread manufacturers and distributors will soon classify all of their thread in this man-ner. Currently most fly thread brands uses the "0" (Aught) system. In this system the larger the number in front of the "0" the smaller the thread. For instance 8/0 thread is thinner than 6/0 thread. This numbering system is totally arbitrary and varies widely between the manufacturers. When comparing threads of different brands, we suggest you do not use the Aught system because the only ac-curate way to compare sizes of threads is by denier.

A thread for every need Ultra Thread is produced in 4 different deniers (70, 140, 210, and 280) to meet the needs of every fly tyer: RED—This is a great size for tying the smallest of flies and for tying with low bulk on larger flies. It is the ideal choice for dry flies, nymphs, and midges size 14 or smaller. Available in 32 colors. YELLOW—Excellent for the majority of flies, it is the perfect choice for size 2 - 16 flies. Due to its vibrant sheen and excellent color retention, it is a good substitute for floss on small flies. Available in 33 colors GREEN—An excellent choice for saltwater flies and large streamers. Perfect for spinning hair on bass flies without being too bulky. Available in 18 colors. BLUE—Designed for tying the largest saltwater flies, spinning hair on bass bugs and as a substitute for floss for bodies and ribs. Use 280 on any large fly where you need the thread to be very bulky, such as building up a tapered head on a large saltwater streamer. Available in 20 colors Source: Trout Waters and Nick Pace


Perhaps every voyage has a quest, but when Hugh Patterson and brothers Ryan and Bry-son Robertson put out to sea in 2007, they had nothing like a Northwest Passage or the mythical continent of Atlantis in mind. The three, all graduates of the University of Victoria’s school of engineering, had a much more tangible goal when they weighed an-chor in La Paz, Mexico, for a three-and-a-half-year journey around the world — gar-bage. Or, more precisely, plastic garbage. They decided that charting how plastic is spread around could go a long way toward understanding and dealing with the problem of ocean pollution. “In terms of garbage that ends up in the ocean, plastic is the most prevalent,” Patter-son said. “And it’s the stuff that floats and ends up on beaches, generally. You find a few other things, but pretty much it’s plas-tic.” The three-year journey in the 40-foot vessel Khulula ended in Victoria last September, and the three travellers will be sharing the story of their foray across three oceans at UVic on Monday. It is one of the opening events for UVic Alumni Week. Introducing them will be Martin Taylor,

president and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada, which oversees NEPTUNE Can-ada and VENUS, undersea observatories led by UVic researchers. Taylor said the trip gathered valuable in-formation. “What their work reinforces is the vulnerability of our oceans to a combi-nation of both natural and human factors,” he said. “In the case of the pollution that they’re documenting, it’s primarily the human factors that are fundamentally re-sponsible.” The efforts of the trio “point out again the vital importance of our ability to monitor consistently and continually ocean change and the consequences of those changes for the health of our planet,” Taylor said. The voyage, dubbed the OceanGybe Expe-dition, had plenty of other aspects — surf-ing, adventure, seeing the world, learning about different cultures — but the gradu-ates wanted to find out for themselves how humans have impacted some of the farthest reaches of the planet. “The main objective was to look at plastic that was arriving from other places at re-mote islands, and what was not coming

from the local population,” Patterson said. “We considered trade winds and currents and how they move plastic around the world.” The name OceanGybe was chosen because a “gybe” is a sailing manoeuvre that causes a change in direction. And change, Patterson said, is what is needed to preserve the ocean environment. The team found lots of unusual things, but nothing that rivalled the prevalence of one particular object. “The one item you find everywhere, all over the beaches, is water bottles,” Patterson said. “Bottle caps, too.” Other than that, it wasn’t the objects them-selves that were particularly unusual, it was the quantity. “We found 30 toothbrushes on a remote beach and we would find all sorts of Glow Sticks — they’re used a lot in fishing. On one especially dramatic beach, we found 330 flip-flops.” The beach with the flip-flops, downwind from Indonesia, was also cluttered with other

Ocean Gybe Expedition


trash. “Usually we looked at 100 metres of beach to count the plastic, but this place it was so bad we only looked at 10 metres.” Patterson noted that other sailors have seen similar things, masses of garbage and plastic in unexpected places. It was one particular example of that — the collection of detritus in the so-called North Pacific Gyre, a mix of currents that has brought in enough refuse to form a huge floating landfill — that helped inspire the trip. Patterson said there is clearly a problem in the oceans, although solutions are at hand. “From what we saw, the problem is pretty extensive, but the changes that we need to make our so simple. We have the answers, we just need to consume less in our day-to-day lives and stop treating plastic as this one-time disposable material.” Everyone can play a part, he said. “None of us is living a perfect existence or a carbon-neutral existence, so we just do what we can.” The men’s presentation starts at 5:30 p.m. Monday in room A104 of UVic’s Bob Wright Centre. Admission is free, and a re-ception will precede the presentation, at 4:30 p.m. [email protected] Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/Ocean+rangers+chart+journeys+plastic+trash/4231612/story.html#ixzz1DcIRuHt5 Editors Note: The North Pacific Gyre, lo-cated in the northern Pacific Ocean, is one of the five major oceanic gyres. This gyre com-prises most of the northern Pacific Ocean. It is the largest ecosystem on our planet. It is located between the equator and 50º N lati-tude and occupies an area of approximately 20 million square kilometers.[1] The gyre has a clockwise circular pattern and comprises four prevailing ocean currents: the North Pacific Current to the north, the California Current to the east, the North Equatorial Current to the south, and the Kuroshio Cur-rent to the west. It is the site of an unusually intense collection of man-made marine de-bris, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Source: Internet


Schedule of Events Morning Topics— 9am to 12 noon. 1. The Importance of Colour. An in-depth study of the vision of trout and the effects that water and lighting have on

tying materials and patterns. 2. Advanced Stillwater Strategies. A series of highly effective strategies and tactics that will make a significant improvement in your angling skills and success rate. 3. Thinking Outside the Box. A look at several of the United Kingdom’s top producing Stillwater patterns. Lunch Break—12 noon to 1pm Afternoon Topics—1pm to 4pm 1. British Stillwater Techniques. A study of several of the most productive British Stillwater fly fishing techniques. 2. An Introduction to Loch-style Fly Fishing. An introduction to the highly effective and dynamic wind-drifting

technique. 3. Fly Tying Demonstration. A fly-tying demonstration and the theory behind a few of Todd’s favourite Stillwater

patterns. Todd Oishi has fished the rivers and stillwaters of twelve countries and six Canadian provinces for several species of trout, salmon, char, whitefish, pike, grayling and a variety of other fish. His photography and articles have been pub-lished in BC Outdoors, Outdoors Canada and The Canadian Fly Fisher magazine. He has designed and presented a se-ries of thought-provoking seminars at numerous fly fishing clubs, shows and symposiums, and has headlined as a fea-tured fly-tyer and presenter at British Columbia’s largest outdoors and fishing show. Todd is actively involved in the world of competitive fly-fishing. At the Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships, he won the Individual Gold Medal in 2005, the Individual Bronze Medal in 2009, and again in 2010. He has also won four Team Gold Medals over the past six years. He has competed at the Lexus European Fly Fishing Championships, and served as a member of Team Canada for two U.S. Nationals, two Commonwealths and five World Fly Fishing Championships.

Advanced Stillwater Strategies Seminar

With Todd Oishi Saturday April 23, 2011

Time 9am to 4pm Members Free, Non Members $25.00


You gotta figure insects out if you want to catch a lot of trout. Study the rises. Are the fish slashing, sipping or porpoising? The insects are in the air and on the water. Trout are rising all around you. You've thrown the kitchen sink at the silly fish and they won't take a thing, not even a fly that looks exactly like the duns flittering about. What's going on? One of the most common mistakes of reading a hatch is to disregard what you don't see. What you are seeing are the adults of the hatch, but more times than not, trout will feed more readily on the other stages of the insect cycle. The adults are big meaty choices but often the most difficult for the trout to capture. So any trout angler would find it beneficial to study and understand the stages of caddis flies, mayflies and stoneflies The most important advice to learning how to match the hatch and catch trout is simple: Observe. Start by picking up a rock. Turn it over. If you have done your homework, you can tell if those are mayfly nymphs or cased caddis. One of the most common mistakes of reading a hatch is to disregard what you don't see. Pull out a dip-net or seine net (which they now make to slip over your net), hold it in an edge of fast and slow water and take a couple of read-ings.. If you know your nymphs from studying, you can tell what insects and what stages are active. Make sure to bend over and look very closely at the insects you can spot on the water. Spinners are almost invisible at times. Walk the bank or shoreline and shake bushes. Take a seat on high ground and watch the water. Don't fish for five minutes, or 10, if you're pa-tient. Begin by watching the insect lighting on the water on a section of the water. Can you see trout feeding on the surface taking the insects? Are the insects landing in riffles or flat water? If you can see trout feeding, you can often see the white of their mouths opening to take food. If you see trout and their tails pointed upward, they are probably feeding on nymphs. So look carefully, and you can figure out which fish you want to go after. Most importantly, watch the rises. Ah, watching the rises, an art form of study all in itself. Are the trout slashing? (They could be chasing adult mayflies). Sipping? (probably gently feeding on spinners, lifeless after reproduction). Porpoising? (The trout could be taking crippled mayflies or mayfly nymphs). If the fish are jumping clear out of the water, they're probably chasing caddis emergers, which release from the bottom and rise quickly to the surface to emerge as adults. And sometimes anglers believe the trout are feeding on top, which means using dry flies, when in fact, the fish are taking insects in the surface film or just under the surface.

Match the Hatch

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If trout are rising during a hatch, sight-cast to them. Don't cast blindly. Time the rises. Each trout, because of his holding station, will have a certain cadence. I will even count out low a trout's cadence so that I can know when to plop out my imitation. Cast above the rise ring. When trout go to the surface to feed, they move up several inches to several feet then drift back down to their lie. If you do all this and the fish are still refusing your offerings, here are few tips: � Try a smaller version of the fly. � Try a more subtle pattern of the fly (a lighter-dressed fly such as a no-hackle). � Go to lighter tippet. � Change the colour of next pattern. � Try a cluster pattern (Cluster Midge or Griffiths Gnat). � Go to a different phase of the insect like a pupa, larva, emerger (a dropper rig is a good way to quickly find out what they are feeding on). � Try new patterns like cripples, emergers, stillborns. For instance, it helps to know if the caddis hatching are cased caddis, peeking caddis, spinning caddis, or egg laying caddis. � The well-prepared angler will have different patterns, stages, shades, sizes for the hatches that occur during the time period. Make sure you have various patterns in subtle shade differences and in different sizes. Many diehards bring their flytying equipment streamside and some bring colour markers for white flies to colour them to match the hatch. And if all else fails, and matching the hatch isn't working, and sometimes it won't, there are just too many other choices that they like better than yours. Source: Internet

OK so its not classic casting but it is still a fly and if you're brave enough you could use a fly rod with the line attached to a downrigger or planer board. Many will remember Sam Sapranoff , he used a section of sinking line spliced into mono backing. This reduced drag and the need for a weight when high speed buck-tailing. Okanagan, Arrow or Kootenay you should be out there now for best action. The recent Nakusp big fish derby which had a minimum entry size of 10 lbs had 131 participants and the winning fish was over 17 lbs. On Okanagan lake the largest fish are consistently caught south of the Bennet Bridge. Smaller boat owners used to fish along side the floating bridge, using it as a weather break. Several of us witnessed the congregation of Kokanee at the Fairview bridge this fall... guess what rainbows in the 10 lb plus range eat! Other hot spots on Okanagan: directly out in front of the Peachland boat launch, Crescent Beach and Antlers Beach area. Antlers beach can be fished from shore as well as shore spawning areas where rainbows will feed on immerging kokanee. Pictures supplied by guides Rod Hennig.. www.kelownafishing.com Okanagan Lake and Brad Stubbs www.kootenaykingfisher.com Kootenay Lake. They of course have their own super secret fly selection and also use lyman plugs this time of year. Both guides have heated boats for us whimps that think fly's only work in summer. Rod has good rate for 3-4 people... It is a thrill to see these fish hit and tail walk even if you're not the one reeling them in. Check out Rods Kelowna fishing site for some video footage.


Bucktails for Winter Rainbow

By Larry Martin

Okanagan Lake HOG

Fly Samples


ANNUAL DINNER, AWARDS and AUCTION

Saturday, April 30 at the ELKS Hall on Ellis St.

Bar 5:30 dinner 6:30

Tickets $20 each

Alevin. Ale and vin. Beer and wine? No! They’re trout candy when spring is imminent. It is well known that Pacific salmon enter their natal streams in the fall to pair up, spawn and die. The normal salmon life cycle is: spawning adults, eggs, alevin, fry, smolts, ocean life, and then it starts all over again. Flyfish-ers get all hot n’ bothered about the big salmon runs of the fall that attract fat, gluttonous trout and char to the mouths of spawning streams where the fish stuff themselves with salmon eggs. No doubt some of the best opportunities of the year to angle for – and catch! – lots of large trout occur in the fall at the mouths of streams where salmon do their thing. In late spring, as the rivers run high with runoff, large trout once

again congregate in or near river mouths and gorge themselves on out-migrating salmon fry. Some flyfishers take advantage of this opportunity, too, but since some areas are closed to angling at that time of year or access is difficult due to high wa-ter, the fishing is neither as easy nor as available as it was in the fall. However, be-fore spring runoff starts, while the streams are still running low and clear and they – or the lakes at their mouths - are open to fishing, another flyfishing opportunity pre-sents itself: alevins. I have a very fond recollection of having the mouth of a salmon stream on a large lake all to myself on a crisp, clear March day some years ago. I had ventured there hoping to shake off the long winter and fool some fish. I wasn’t sure if any alevins would be out yet, but I had a new, simple alevin imitation I wanted to try so I tied it

onto a long leader, added a small split shot a couple of feet above the fly and, using a floating line, dead-drifted it over the edge of the drop-off into the lake. As the fly tumbled over the drop I noticed a subtle movement of the line and, when I lifted my rod tip, a few pounds of feisty, football-shaped rainbow trout took off across the lake and attempted to relieve me of all of my backing. When I finally landed the fish I did a quick throat pump and I was delighted to find some live alevins, still wriggling. I had guessed correctly, and I was very pleased to note that my new pattern, when wet, was a very good imitation of the naturals. Match the hatch! Tickled pink at my good fortune having the place to myself, I continued to catch nice fish all day on the alevin. It was as fun as catching them on eggs in the fall, minus the crowds. Needless to say, since that day I have eagerly looked for-ward to March every year in anticipation of fooling a few nice fish with alevins. Tie up a few and shake off the shack-nasties at the mouth of your favourite salmon stream this March. With luck I’ll see you there!

Beer n’ Wine: Hook: Mustad 34007, sz. 6-8 (or equiv.) Thread: White Body: Pearl Mylar tinsel Wing: Mallard flank, rolled, with one strand

pearl Krystal Flash on each side Yolk sac: Orange yarn Head: White thread Eyes: Painted, white nail polish with black

pupil


Beer and Wine ??

2011 FISHOUTS

Salmon Lake

Sept 23,24, & 25

Kettle River July every weekend


Link Lake May 27 to

29

Idelback Lake June 24 to 26

Harmon Lake Sept 9 to 11

Planned Fish Out’s

for 2011


I have been chasing the great and elusive steelhead on many trips, in different rivers and even different countries. I have listened to the many stories of the great steelhead fishermen in our club, our Province and Washington State but have not put it all together. My steelhead success has been only juveniles as that was all I could fool. I have heard it said that steelhead is a fish of 1000 casts and I did not mind that so much but I am way over that amount. I have been with the great ones from our club, Herb Hurray, Mark Wish and Bruce Turnbull, and Peter Sperling of Vernon on the Thompson River, without a fish. Art Lingren and I fished the “Rock Run” together with Art one and Tom none, but I did stay up. I did get baptized on December 29 in the “Rock Run” and December 30 in the “Orchard Run” trying to improve my catch. It was very refreshing but the fish did not respond. My limited casting has hurt my efforts as they always seem to be out of reach and when I try for that extra length, boom, down I go. Even when they are in range and I can see them in the river behind the rocks my offering goes unmolested. The 400 to 700 fish that re-turn to the Thompson every year have been caught so many times they are just too smart for me. I have drifted the Thompson with Bruce in our pontoon boats and with Mark Pendlington in his drift boat and the trout fishing was great. I went to the Methow River in Washington State late last year with Bruce and his brother Glen, looking for the steelhead. They do not open the river unless there about 7,000 fish in the river and I thought we would be able to catch one. We had listened to Angus Cameron, Rick Wickett and Jon Pew about their fishing trips to the Methow and off we went. Bruce and I had drifted the Methow with a guide for trout a couple of years ago and guess what; “we should have been there on Wednesday”. Sometimes I hear that quite often. For the steelhead chase this past year was our first time on the river targeting them and we learned a lot. We all fell down and broke some rods. It was a warm couple of days and I saw only one steelhead caught. The wardens told us that some people were catching fish but as always further down the river. One would think I should be discouraged with all of this but seeing Mark Pendlington catching steelhead in a river on tv this week-end has only started me planning for 2011.

STEELHEAD DREAMS BY Tom Dellamater

BTRA Picture

BTRA Picture


Picture Gallery Past Fish Outs


CLASSIFIEDS CALENDAR of EVENTS

For Sale—15 ft Sage graphite Spey rod, line weight 10, 8 3/4 oz, 4 piece, used only ten times. Call Ken Cochrane 250-860-9128 or email at [email protected] For Sale—Sharps "SCOTTIE", a 4" Perfect style Salmon reel. Has almost all of original lead finish, Bronze line guard, slightly filed foot $400.00 3 1/2" Hardy Perfect, no line guard, long alloy foot, Ivorine han-dle, with a Hardy drawstring bag. An early model which, unfor-tunately, has been refinished. 2 small cracks, one on a pillar the other close by on the frame. They should not affect the reel for fishing. $550.00 Hardy Marquis Salmon #1 Saltwater with twin handles, slight paint loss around rim only, Hardy case $400.00 Hardy Salmon #1 spare spool (Not a saltwater spool) $100.00 Hardy St. John Some paint loss around rim. $250.00 Hardy Marquis 8/9 spare spool all grey model $65.00 Hardy "Wathne Collection" #8 Numbered edition #248 & spare spool Basically same reel as a Golden Prince except for finish, Grey frame, Silver spool. Cases for both. Reel and spool are in as new" condition. I do not think they have ever been fished. $330.00 Hardy Perfect 3 7/8" leaded finish straight line writing no line guard. $330.00 Call Ken Baker 250-493-2926 or email to [email protected]

March 3—General meeting time 7 pm Old CPR Station on Hastings St. This is the first General Meeting since the new Executive was elected. Come and see what is planned for the new season also a special guest speaker from the Okanagan Nations Alliance Fisheries Department to talk about Kokanee and salmon success.. March 10—Fly tying nite, time 7 pm. A pattern will be decided upon at the March general meeting. March 16—Executive Meeting time 7 pm at Phil Rogers home. April 7—General Meeting time 7 pm. April 14—Fly tying nite. Time 7 pm Pattern to be an-nounced. April 20—Executive meeting at Phil’s house time 7 pm. April 30– Annual Dinner Awards and Auction at the Elks Hall on Ellis St time 5:30 bar 6:30 dinner

www.bcwf.bc.ca

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www.pentictonflyfishers.ca

www.troutwaters.ca

Tying and Fishing Techniques

The Penticton Flyfishers meet the first Thursday of every month except July and August when we meet at nearby fish-outs. Club meetings begin at 7 pm at the “OLD CPR” Train Station on Hastings St., and everyone is welcome. Membership costs $40 per year (Junior membership is free) and includes membership in the B.C. Federation of Fly Fishers, the B.C. Wild-life Federation, The Federation of Fly Fishers (International), and the Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA). The club is registered as a society and its function is to promote the sport of fly fishing, to educate, and to conserve and protect the environment. The club is actively involved in conservation projects throughout the Okanagan and surrounding areas. If you would like more information about the club, its membership, projects and programs, please call any member of the Executive (see inside front cover).

Bruce Turnbull Bruce Turnbull

Trolling with flies is a topic that would be better covered with hundreds of pages rather than hundreds of words. In a nut shell, troll-ing with flies is a very effective technique that covers a lot of water in a short amount of time. The key elements are: the depth at which the fish are feeding and your fly should be, the colour of the fly, a lifelike movement and the correct speed. The combi-nations are endless. If you have not used them before, my hope is you will give them a try and open up a new way of fishing. Most streamer styles can be trolled effectively. But if it is big fish that you are after our Arctic Fox Trolling Flies are scaled up to meat the appetites of larger fish. Arctic Fox Trolling Flies size #2 (4X-long) hook. These trolling flies are the next evolu-tionary step in streamer design. This fly se-ries is based on marabou leech patterns that have been around for some time. These have been up-sized from fly-casting sizes to ap-peal to the larger predators of various fresh-water species. We have also changed the wing and tail material from marabou feathers to Arctic Fox Fur. By its nature, fur is a much more durable fly material than feathers. Feathers are designed for flight requiring a lighter more fragile

material. Fur on the other hand is meant to protect an animal and is tougher than feath-ers. This fox fur comes from ranch raised animals and is procured as scraps from the fur trade. Arctic Fox Fur has the unique combination of tensile strength and supple-ness that provides great movement as the fly is pulled through the water. As time goes on try adding more colour combina-tions to mimic more baitfish species. For fish at or near the top of the water col-umn “long lining” with monofilament can be very effective. Adding weight to the line will get the fly deeper and there are a num-ber of ways to do this. Some anglers will just add a few split shot but you want to avoid weighting the line in such a way as to make the fly spin. A good solution is to tie in a section of lead core line. By vary-ing the length of lead core you can vary the depth reached. Try pieces from 2’ to 25’ ahead of 20’ to 40’ of leader material. Loop to loop connections is a quick solu-tion for changing out lead core sections. When trolling with a weighted system, as you change speeds your fly will change depth. If you have a line out from each corner, at the rear of the boat, as you turn the boat the inside line will follow a shorter course and the out side line will

track on a longer course. This will translate into different speeds for the flies and differ-ent depths. There are an infinite number of line length/weight/boat speed combinations to play with. The best advice is to run more than one line system and keep varying your speed until you start to get results. Fish finding electronics that look side ways as well as down can save you hours or days of experi-mentation. Source: Artic Fox Trolling Flies web site

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dates page

hatch page

winter rainbow page

presidents report page

fishing techniques page

tom dellamater page

auction info page