*Annual Slide Show
Don't forget to take lots of pictures on our fishouts and on your own fishing trips; and for goodness sakes don't forget to send your pictures to Dougald Scott. This year's presentation will again be in digital format. If your pictures are already digital, you can e-mail them to him at doscott@cruzio.com. If you have slides or prints, mail them to him and he will scan them into digital format and return your pictures to you. If you have any questions call Dougald at 427-1394.
*SCFF Conservation Fund
This year our club has allocated $2500 of our budget to be spent on worthy conservation projects and groups. I will be holding an informal meeting at my house sometime in April to come up with spending recommendations for our board of directors. If anyone is interested in participating, please contact me at 427-3974. - Bruce Dau
*Clean Streams Program
The Coastal Watershed Council is a non-profit organization committed to the preservation and protection of coastal watersheds through education and community outreach. CWC is currently seeking volunteers for our Clean Streams Program. Volunteers are needed for summer Clean Streams monitoring on Aptos, Corralitos, Branciforte and Gazos Creeks and the Watsonville Sloughs.
The Clean Streams program is a great opportunity for local residents and community members to learn more about their watershed through participation in volunteer water quality and biological monitoring of our creeks. The data gathered through our volunteer monitoring programs can then be used by State and local resource agencies to aid the prioritization of restoration & education needs in our watersheds, provide baseline data where data is lacking or absent, and to develop long-term watershed stewardship.
CWC's Clean Streams program trains volunteers to monitor local watersheds on a monthly basis. The volunteer commitment is approximately 6 hours per month, and all participants will visit various locations throughout each watershed. No experience necessary!
| Stream | Community Meeting | Training Session |
|---|---|---|
| Branciforte Creek | March 24th 6:30-8:30 Senior Citizens Opportunity Center Scout Room, 222 Market Street | April 3rd 10:00-12:00 Same location |
| Gazos Creek | April 10th 10:00-12:00 The Beach House 5720 Hwy 1, San Mateo County | April 10th 12:30-3:30 Same location |
For more information or to volunteer please contact: Coastal Watershed Council at: (831) 464-9200, Fax (831) 464-9214; email: volunteer@coastalws.org.
*San Jose Fly Shop Spring Fair
The 7th Annual San Jose Fly Shop Spring Fair is on April 3rd and I am pleased to announce the following schedule. It's going to rain that day (it has every year). You can forget the fishing, golf, and yard plans...come on down to the fair!
Slide Shows:
10:00-11:00 Fly Fishing Monterey Bay with Dan Blanton
11:00-12:00 Fly Fishing the Tahoe Region w/Stephen Haggard
12:30-1:30 Fly Fishing NorCal for Trout with Dave Shafer
1:30-2:30 Fly Fishing SL Res.& ONeil Forebay-Lee Haskin
2:30-3:30 Fly Fishing the World with Tom Malech
Casting Demos
11:00-12:00 Controlling your loop with Jamie Lyle
1:00-2:00 SH, LC-13, and double haul with Tony Yap
Knot Demo
All Day Braided Loops and other rigging with Bill Nash
Fly Tying
9:00-10:30 Rick Fox-Caddis, Skwala Stones
10:30-12:00 Lee Haskin-Striper Flies
12:00-1:30 Dan Blanton-Dan's Flies
1:30-3:00 Dave Shafer-Trout Flies
Raffle and Sale
There will be a huge raffle supporting Caltrout and the FFF. Sage SLT rod, gift certificates, SF 49ers football, SF Giants tickets, mucho fly fishing gear, plus much more. Over $3000 in raffle items! We will also have tons of closeout inventory at up to 60% off! For every $100 spent the day of our fair, you will receive a special raffle ticket. One lucky person will win the $750 gift certificate to the store in this special raffle!
Special Raffle.$750 Gift Certificate
Free Barbecue
Once again, "Mangia and Friends" will be cooking up Italian Sausage Sando's, Beans, and soda/waters in the free Barbecue. (11:30-2:00PM)
Questions? Please contact us at the shop 408-448-5155, toll free 877-626-7621 or email tom@sjflyshop.com. Again for more information, please see our website at www.sjflyshop.com. Thomas Malech, Owner. San Jose Fly Shop, 2306 Almaden Road, Suite 155, San Jose, CA 95125
*Spey-O-Rama
The Golden Gate Angling and Casting club is pleased to invite you to participate in our upcoming Spey-O-Rama event on April 23, 24 & 25th, 2004. This exciting event will bring together the best Spey casters from four continents and will be one of the premier events in the world focused solely on Spey casting. It will feature manufacture and retailer exhibits, FFF Certification for Spey Casting Instructors, demonstrations and instruction by the world's best casters, and a competition. Best of all these events will be held on water at the Angler's Lodge and Casting Pools in Golden Gate Park.
The schedule for the Spey-O-Rama is:
April 23: Exhibits; FFF Certification for Spey Casting Instructors
April 24: Exhibits; Spey Demonstrations and Instruction
April 25: Exhibits; Spey Demonstrations, and Spey Casting Competition
Spey casting is one of the most exciting and fastest growing sectors of our sport and we think that bringing together the world's best Spey casters and tackle manufacturers for this event will be a great opportunity to advance our sport. Miracle Productions Company plan to produce the most sophisticated and comprehensive video-DVD on Spey casting ever done. They will have a professional film crew at our pools the entire 3 days. Demonstrators will be filmed and interviewed.
This extravaganza is free to one and all. See more details on the web at: www.gbflycasters.org/Classes%20and%20Clinics/Speyorama/SpeyORama.htm.
Bill Ward, President of Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club E-mail - spey@ggacc.org, Fax: (650) 306-9489. Mel Krieger, Chairman of Spey-O-Rama.