Amador Fly Fishers

The Febraury 2010 General Meeting will feature Jay Murakoshi as the Guest Speaker.  Jay will be doing a presentation on fly fishing in Baja.

Jay's Bio:

I have been in the fly fishing industry for 36 years. I've also been a commercial fly tyer for 35 years, having tied for such notables as Lefty Kreh and Trey Combs. At one time or another, I have tied for most of the Northern California shops in the region. My patterns have been featured in Fly Fishing in Saltwaters, California Fly Fisher, Western Outdoors and Southwest Fly Fishing. I am the west coast contributing writer for Fly Fishing in Saltwater magazine.

I have developed a few to water bass patterns that I will be selling through my web site www.fliesunlimited.com.  They are the CB diver, wiggle waker, swimming minnow and a hula girl.

As a speaker I have been doing seminars and clinics since the early '80's. I have spoken to thousands of people at events like the International Sportsman Exposition, the Fly Fishing Show, Renzetti Fly Fishing Fair, sports pro shops, fly fishing clubs and conclaves. I am also on pro staff for TFO, Galvan Fly Reels, RIO, Costa del Mar, Anglers Sports Group (Dai Ichi Hooks) Gamakatsu and GoPro Camera. I also run my own travel business which takes people to Baja, Honduras and Australia.

Jay will be doing a fly tying demonstration starting at 6:00 PM.  The General Meeting will follow.

The Meeting will be held at the Amador County Administration Building located at 810 Court St. in Jackson CA (95642).

Amador Flyfishers (AFF) meets the third Tuesday of each month in the Amador County Administration Center at 810 Court Street, Jackson.

For the meeting on January 19, 2010, Kelly Galloup will provide a pre-meeting fly-tying starting at 6:00pm, followed by the general club business, and  then Kelly's presentation "Streamers for Trophy Trout."

Kelly started his fly fishing career at the age of 13, tying flies for the local tackle shop. He started guiding at the age of 16 and is still guiding to this day some 34 years later. He owned the Troutsman fly shop in Northern Michigan for 20 years. He sold the Troutsman and moved to Montana where he and his wife Penny bought the Slide Inn lodge on the banks of the Madison River. Kelly has written two books Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout and Cripples and Spinners, and has numerous DVD's on tying and fishing. He has over fifty nationally recognized fly patterns that are sold world wide. He is also a line and rod designer for Scientific Anglers and St Croix rods. Kelly has been published in nearly every major fly fishing periodical in the country and is one of the Editors a large for Fly Fisherman magazine. Kelly is also one of the hosts of Fly Fish TV on the outdoor Life Network. Kelly is one of the most sought after speakers in the country and spends much of his winter months speaking for clubs and Sports shows. In 2003 Kelly received the living legend award from the FFF, and in 2007 the Charles E Brooks memorial life award.

Please join us for our meeting, guests are welcome.

My name is Rich Lobrovich and I am a Native Californian. I am also a Fly Fisher with a story to tell.

In Sept 2004 I arrived in Buna Texas to visit a friend and her family; all of whom love to fish.  The first day we took four wheelers on the edge of the “Big Thicket”, of course I left my fly rod back at the house.

As we crossed over the first bridge I saw my first Gar, a fish with some mean teeth.  Most people do not know that all Fly Fishers are in search of the Gar.  The technique is a simple one, find some 3/8 inch white cotton rope and cut into 12 inch sections. This is the fly!The leader should be made of a 12 inch section of wire.  Since Gar are very spooky you will need to fish for them after dark during a full moon while they are feeding.

The next day I was Fly Roddin for Large Mouth Bass in a small Farm Pond just south of The Ponderosa Ranch.  I asked my guide about the snakes and he said he had only seen three in the last few years at the pond.  As I was walking along the shore of the Pond I saw three small snakes of unknown origin.  I guess I will not be using my float tube in these waters of SouthEast Texas. Not to mention the Gators.

We fished for about three hours and I managed to land one small Bass and a Brim.  Saturday was the planned Family Fish Fry. I was introduced to about sixty Family members and Friends from Four States.
One guy looked like Kenny Rodgers who doubles as the Local “Santa Claus” at Christmas Time.  On Saturday we went fishing with “Dude” on the Neches River.  In California all my friends call me “LOB DUDE”, and that is what my Jeep License plates say.  We landed a few small Bass; the ECO-TOUR was a real eye opener.

Rich Lobrovich, Cindy and I joined other volunteers from Trout Unlimited and other fly fishing clubs to assist the Heritage and Wild Trout Program with their electro-shocking of Caples Creek 9/8-9/10.  They split the group into 3 smaller groups and broke the creek down into three sections.  Unlike the shocking in November of last year we only did a single pass this time, though we covered a lot more water.  The flows were too high for the block nets to stay in the stream.  The flow was at ~30 CFS compared to 3 last November.

Whew, what a week!  It seems as though the time just flew by.

Cindy and I went to Lake Tahoe for Labor Day weekend and watched an excellent Chickenfoot concert.  We drove home on Labor Day to grab our fishing and camping supplies before heading back up to Blue Lakes.  What is normally an hour and a half, maximum, took nearly three hours.  We grabbed our stuff, checked our email and then headed up to the cabin at Lower Blue Lake.

Rich Lobrovich joined us for that first night and we enjoyed a nice dinner of bar-b-qued ribs and pasta salad.  We enjoyed our evening getting settled into a very unique cabin.  The cabin had three bedrooms downstairs along with the bathroom and kitchen/dining room.  Judging from the PG&E building number the cabin was probably built in the late 1800's or early 1900's.  It was still very nice, and definitely beat sleeping in a tent.

This video regarding Trout In the Classroom was produced by Gerry Ng of the Diablo Valley Fly Fishers.