Amador Flyfishers

Please join us on Tuesday May 21, 2013 for our general meeting.  The meeting will feature Jon Baiocchi, owner of Baiocchi's Troutfitters.

John will be discussing fly fishing Eagle Lake.

Jon's been fly fishing and tying flies since 1972 and is a California Licensed fly fishing guide, published author, educator, innovative tier, and public speaker-giving fly fishing presentations to fly fishing clubs and expos across the state of California. His Dad, Bob Baiocchi, was inducted into the Federation of Fly Fishers Hall of Fame in 1999 and was a big part in helping Jon hone his fly fishing skills at an early age. In 1979 Jon began snowboarding and was one of the pioneers of the sport competing professionally, starring in major films, and involved with research and development for clothing and board manufacturers. Jon now owns and operates Baiocchi's Troutfitters guide service In Northern California where he has a reputation as a hard working guide that's been trained by some of fly fishing's best known anglers. His locations for guiding include Lake Davis, the Wild & Scenic Middle Fork Feather River, Frenchman's Reservoir, Eagle Lake, the North Fork Yuba River, Lake Almanor, The Big/Little Truckee Rivers, and many secluded creeks in Eastern Plumas Co. Jon's philosophy on fly fishing is to keep it simple, be confident in your presentation, and have fun! His favorite game is stalking and sight fishing to large trout in shallow water whether it is a river or a stillwater.

Monday 05-06-12 members of the Amador Flyfishers (Barbra Price, Charlie Moore and wife Katherine and Ray Mutter headed to Hat Creek. We were met there by Larry Griffiths and Rick Roberts of the Diablo Valley Flyfishers Club. Charlie and Katherine camped at Hat Creek Herford Ranch Camp Gounds while the rest of us roughed it in in the manager's suite at the Green Gables Motel in Burney.

Amador Fly Fishers held their 3rd Annual bass fishout at a private pond on the Arroyo Seco properties on Wednesday, May 1. Attending were Charlie Moore, Gary Slade, Tom Shirley, Barbara Price, Gary Swager, Jimmy Dixon, Rob Hodgson, Art Weatherford, and fishmaster Dennis Larson.

Fishing started out slowly, with little top water action. What action there was, was primarily poppers. Others used long leaders or slow sinking lines and stripped with damsel fly imitations. Actually anything dark olive green.

At noon we broke for a tail-gate lunch consisting of cheeseburgers, hot dogs, chips, sodas and bottled water. The afternoon bite was slightly better but everyone was off the water by 3 pm.

Largest bass were caught by Gary Slade and Art Weatherford (14 inches).

The weather cooperated, sunny and warm but not hot, and a good time was had by all.

Fishmaster

Dennis Larson

On a bright, sunny, but somewhat windy Saturday, six AFF members and one guest hunted for Largemouth Bass on Cameron Park Lake. Present for the day were Ron Calvert, Jimmy Dixon, Charlie Moore, Barbara Price, Gary Slade, Gary Swager and his son, David. All, except the Swagers, put in on float tubes and inflatable boats from the parking lot at about 9:00 AM.

The first fishout was on Wednesday April 10.

Art Weatherford and I had breakfast at Deer Ridge. Barbara Price joined us just before 09:00 and we headed up to Caples. We got to the Woods Creek fishing access driveway just before 10:00. It was then that Art discovered that he had forgot his wading boots. He didn't try to fish without them and left shortly after arriving. Little did he know that by not bringing his boots was probably the best thing to happen to him that morning.

Barbara and I fished at the Woods Creek inlet area for about 3 hours and never had a strike. Not to be skunked, we headed back to Silver Lake. It was looking pretty good so we fished it for an hour and neither one of us had a strike.

Stink, stank, stunk and skunked.

Over the weekend of March 22 – 24, 2013, six intrepid members risked the wilds of northwest Nevada to fish for Lahontan Cutthroat Trout along the shores of Pyramid Lake. Braving morning temperatures in the high 20's and winds from 5 to 25 miles per hour, our heroes stripped buggers and foam beetles and fished midges under indicators at Blockhouse, Popcorn and Wino. The AFF cohort included Ken Brown, Ron Calvert, Dennis Larson, Charlie Moore, Dustin Rocksvold and Gary Slade. Charlie and Dustin's spouses joined us for the evening activities.

Dennis' First Fish                              Ron with a sacred Cui-Ui

Ray Mutter, Dennis Larson, Gary Swager, Charlie Moore, Gary Slade, myself (Barbara Price), and Art Weatherford met up on highway 16 at the Ione cut off around 6:00 AM. I had Charlie lead the way assuming he would take the Latrobe Road to highway 50 but when he passed the exit I thought he must know a short cut. The short cut was a nice tour of Rancho Cordova but we all made it to Sailor Bar on time but a few of us were running on gas fumes.

Below is the tentative outing schedule for 2013.  Please contact Gary Swager if you would like to add an outing to this list

More details to follow.