Amador Flyfishers

I mentioned at the last meeting that I came across several piles of tires that had been dumped along the side of the road between Tiger Creek Afterbay and the Highway 26 bridge.

There are two piles of truck tires (one pile of 13 tires, one of 14 tires) located 0.8 & 0.9 miles upstream from the Highway 26 bridge.  There are also a few other odd items strewn around.  An old couch near the whitewater takeout and a mattress near the pile of tires closest to the Highway 26 bridge.

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.

If you are interested in assisting AFF, Trout Unlimited and an Eagle Scout candidate with the installation of the four Angler Survey Boxes donated to AFF, please email Gary Slade, gslade at sullygroup dot com or call at 209-295-4667.

The project will involve assisting the Boy Scouts in installing four Angler Survey boxes; three along Electra Road and one near Tiger Creek. A contractor will dig the holes and we will install the boxes in cement. Cement will also be poured down the pipes on which the boxes are mounted.

Regards,

Gary

Join us for the 2009 Mokelumne River Cleanup Sept 19

Join your friends and neighbors for a great day of fall-cleaning along the banks of our beautiful Mokelumne River. This year's Mokelumne River Cleanup will be held at four sites on Saturday, Sept 19, as part of the Great Sierra River Cleanup and California Coastal Cleanup Day. 

You'll be joining Californians from Crescent Bay to San Diego and Alturas to Bishop restoring the gleam to the Golden State and the shine to the Sierra Nevada. 

We really need your help for this important community effort!

What: 2009 Mokelumne River Cleanup

When: Saturday morning, September 19

Where: Four sites along the Mokelumne: Mokelumne Day Use Area below Camanche, Middle Bar, Electra, and Highway 26. Advance registration by site is required -- it really helps us plan.

Who: You, your family, your friends, and your groups (please call for groups). Children welcome if accompanied by responsible adult. No pets. Intergroup competition encouraged. 

More information: See www.foothillconservancy.org/rivercleanup or call Randy Berg at 209-295-4900.

Sign up today!

Cleanup sponsors: Foothill Conservancy, New York Fitness, East Bay MUD, Camanche Recreation Company

NCCFFF Club Presidents,

It was so great meeting all or most of you last weekend up at Lake McCumber. I hope some of you were able to brave the cold and wet weather and actually get out to hook up with a few nice fish.

To follow up on a conversation that I had with many of you, attached is the Tahoe Truckee Fly Fishers/Trout Unlimited grant to the Conservation Board of the NCCFFF, which I presented in short detail at the meeting. Based on the NCCFFF current funding freeze (at least until after October) and the timeliness of this project (scheduled for mid October), the group thought that a different approach might be appropriate while still meeting the same basic needs of the project.