One Fly Contest
The Delta Fly Fishers Sat. May 10 outing will be to White Pines Lake near Arnold to participate in the Calaveras Fly Fishers One Fly Contest. This is a fundraising event sponsored by the Calaveras club to help fund a $500 scholarship for a Bret Harte High School Student. There is an entry fee of $20 which includes coffee and donuts in the AM and a tri-tip BBQ, with all the fixings, after the contest ends. Non-fishing guests may enjoy the food and refreshments for a $5.00 fee. Registration starts at 7:30 am and ends at 8:30 am. Fishing contest begins at 9am and ends at 1pm. Your One Fly: you can use any type fly as long as it is on a barbless hook; if you lose the fly or it becomes unrepairable, you are out of the contest and the fish you caught up to that time will count. You may continue to fish with your partner but any fish caught after you are out of the contest do not count. Some minor repairs to your one fly are permitted.

A caught fish is one that you have netted and once verified by your partner, released unharmed. All contestants are expected to fish from some type of water craft on the lake. Winner’s names will be inscribed on a plaque now hanging in White Pines Outdoors and will have all the bragging rights for the year!! There are two categories: Largest Fish, any species over 15” and the most fish and trout only no size restrictions. Directions - take Highway 4 to Arnold, turn left on Blagen Rd (just past the Chevron station and continue by the Ace Hardware and post office all on your left). Follow Blagen Rd for about 3/4 mile, going just past Hazel Fisher School on the left, turn left into the lake’s main park/picnic area. Information: Contact Duke Duquette of the CFF (209) 795-5124 or Grady Lee of the DFF (209) 951-3623.

The Calaveras Fly club needs a head count for the one fly contest. If you plan to go please give Grady a reply so he can notify them.

The Bass-n-Fly Challenge - May 30, 2008
Bass-n-Fly, along with the Stockton Bass Club, is sponsoring the first ever California Delta fly-fishing-only bass tournament on Friday, May 30, 2008. The tournament will stage at, and leave from, Buckley Cove/Ladd’s Marina at 6:00 am and the weigh in will be at 2:00 p.m.
More information can be found at http://www.bassnfly.com/home.html or from the Stockton Bass Club. Entries can be dropped off at The Outdoor Sportsman on March Lane.

Bob McMillan Memorial Trout Bout

Lassen Outing Report

By Bill Laughlin

We had eight club members’ sign up for this outing. Leo Gutierrez provided his house located in Truckee, high up on a cliff overlooking the Truckee River. Four bedrooms, three and a half baths, large family room, kitchen and dining room, patio balcony, in short it was beautiful and comfortable. We had made up the menu; (Leo’s menu) purchased the food and departed Thursday. The plan was to go to Kiene’s Fly shop, American Fly Fishing Co.; Fly Fishing Specialties then meet Jim Rich, Rick Green and Larry Schmidt at the Fresh Cut Restaurant in Granite Bay at 4 for dinner. After dinner we went to the Granite Bay Fly Fishing Club house, at Folsom Lake, for a Spey Casting clinic at 5:30. Everything went as planned (although we had to stop three times for directions. But, Leo was smooth as silk. He always stopped by a good looking lady and said “Pardon me can you help us, we are lost”). We did find the restaurant. Upon conclusion of the clinic we left for Truckee and Leo’s house, arriving around 8:30pm.

Everyone was up at 6:30. Leo had hot cakes, coffee and a fruit salad for breakfast. Dean Watson, Joe Balderston and Jacob Loyko, came up on Friday, fished the afternoon and met us for dinner. We started fishing the Truckee River across from Leo’s house. The action was not fast but we had some fish, the scenery was beautiful and we were having a good time. We went back to the house as Leo said lunch was being served at noon, homemade onion soup with French bread topping, chili con carne, fruit salad and tossed green salad. When we finished we decided to take an afternoon nap as the fishing had slowed and probably wouldn’t pick up till later.

We went back out at 4pm to fish till 8; Leo said dinner was being served at 8:30. The fishing was slow but as we came back for dinner no one was complaining. Leo had dinner ready, an eight pound sliced and smoked ham, fruit and tossed green salad, vegetables, French bread. The ham looked like a basketball at first but with the help of Jacob we turned it into a softball, just enough for ham, eggs and pancakes the next morning.

Saturday Charlie Edwards joined us, coming in from Reno. We all decided to fish the area by the Reno Bridge. We got into fish, Joe had a nice 16” rainbow but the action was slow Leo served lunch at 12:30 and we were there. Minestrone soup, French bread and cheese topping, tossed green and fruit salads, watermelon. Again we decided to take an afternoon nap and then fish from 4-8.

The fishing hadn’t picked up much; some went back to Reno bridge area and the rest across from Leo’s house. Joe, Dean and Jacob did the best below the bridge. Dinner was served at 8:30. Rib eye steak baked potatoes, steamed broccoli, sautéed mushrooms, tossed green salad, fruit bar, red wine, French bread. We all slept well that night.

The only complaint we had all weekend was from Jacob, he said my choice of beer (Coors Lite) was poor as it is made from the spillage of Budweiser. But; being, that we didn’t run out the whole weekend it wasn’t all that bad. At some point Leo barbequed buffalo wings that were excellent. I think it was one of our lunches. We all had breakfast Sunday morning and had a round table discussion about our weekend, a lot of laughs. We were all tired and sore from wading the rivers for three days. We looked at each other and said; “Can you believe this weekend”.

We thank you Leo, your beautiful house, excellent cooking, great conversations, laughs, fly tying lessons, as Jim said “It doesn’t get any better than this”.

Thank you again Leo.

Jim, Larry, Dean, Joe, Jacob, Charlie, Rick and Bill