Deep Creek FlyFishers

Deep Creek Fly Fishers July 24th Speaker is
Forrest Brizendine, 7pm start at clubhouse.

Forrest will be speaking about the myriad of NOR-CAL FLY FISHING OPPORTUNITIES

Forrest is the owner and head guide of NorCal Fishing Guides. His love for fishing and the outdoors is why he chose to be a guide. Regarded as one of the hardest working, knowledgeable, and passionate guides in the region. A NorCal Native, his father exposed him to the beautiful, and abundant waterways of the region and he’s been hooked ever since! For the last 30-plus years he has fished the Northern California waters for a wide variety of gamefish, using a variety of styles and techniques. NorCal Fishing Guides offer lessons for first-time anglers and precise guidance for the experienced. They strive to provide clients with a truly memorable fishing experience every day. Come and see for yourself what Northern California fishing is all about!  

Forrest will discuss the variety of fly fishing opportunities in the area along with the seasons, flies, techniques and fisheries. From chromers in the winter on the beautiful coastal rivers to steelhead, stripers, and trout on the Sacramento River system, the region offers something for everyone!

 https://norcalfishingguides.com/

Tonight!

Wednesday, June 26th 5:00-8:00pm Izaak Walton Building, Fairmount Park.

Clean out your closets and garage, put aside your unused or unwanted fly fishing gear (in good, usable condition) and bring it, along with your appetite, to this year’s White Elephant drawing! You can purchase squares on the board to win your pick of items, $5.00 each or 5 for $20.00.

Greg LaPolla will be preparing a Texas style brisket (beef, not elephant) for the main course. The club will supply soft drinks, water and the main course, no donation requested (but won’t be turned down!)  

Had a great day at the San Bernardino Family Fish and Wildlife Festival with the Deep Creek Fly Fishers club. Met so many great families today who had interest of learning the sport of fly fishing.

Deep Creek's May 22nd Speaker is David Carranza, owner of Trucha Fly Fishing Guide Service.

Introduction to Fishing Crowley Lake

David Carranza, owner/operator of TRUCHA Fly Fishing Guide Service, specializes in guiding on Crowley Lake, and various Eastern Sierra waters.
David has been fishing in the Eastern Sierra since early childhood. He is an accomplished fly fisherman, with extensive knowledge and experience
fishing Crowley Lake dating back to 1998. He typically resides at the lake full-time from May to the end of October, and fishes the lake extensively.
David has taught countless anglers how to fly fish, many who were first timers fishing with a fly rod. He believes that fly fishing is not as difficult as
most tend to believe, therefore welcomes all levels of experience from first timers and novices to women, children and skilled anglers.

David’s commitment to his guide service is stated in his own words as follows, I will employ all my knowledge and experience developed through
past years of fishing Crowley Lake to bring you the excitement and rush of the fish bite (aka as “The Grab”), the fight, landing of fish to the net, and
ultimately, accomplish that Kodak moment! Most importantly, I’ll bring my passion, excitement and enthusiasm. I will introduce you to the mechanics
of the fly fishing rod and reel and guide you along for an exciting and memorable experience. If you love the outdoors, our California Eastern Sierra, and of course fishing, then you owe it to yourself to get on Crowley Lake and hook into these athletic, protein nourished, and strong fighting trout. Fighting a Crowley Lake fish is exciting, addicting, and a complete rush!

For all you fly tyers, David will be tying a popular Crowley Lake midge pattern before the meeting. He will have the necessary supplies, but please
bring your own black uni-thread 6/0 or utc ultra thread and your fly tying tools.

We are thrilled to have three presenters tonight, 7pm start. Jane Miller, Jill Wagner, and Jerry Searcy will all be speaking about volunteering to better our community and give back what we can.

JANE MILLER, LEAD MENTOR
The Los Angeles Mayfly Project
With over 27 years as an educator, Jane enjoys mentoring in her free time and is now the lead mentor for TMP Los Angeles after mentoring in TMP Seattle since 2017. In her day job, she partners with districts across the US to create equitable learning experiences and decrease the digital divide. When it comes to fly fishing, she is no stranger.

Since 2004, Jane has enjoyed wading the rivers and
oceans to refine her fly-fishing skills. The Mayfly Project opportunity brings together her love of children and her hobby of fly fishing. Sharing and supporting children in foster care through fly fishing offers the opportunity to explore conservation and the great outdoors that will make a lasting impression on both the children and Jane herself.

It is this healing connection with nature, and with fellow fly fishers, that our featured guest speaker, Jane Miller, uses to impact the lives of children in the foster care system. As lead mentor of the
Los Angles Mayfly Project, Jane and her fellow volunteers connect with children in the foster care system through fly fishing. Jane will tell us about
the program and outline how folks can volunteer.
Continuing the theme of volunteerism in Fly Fishing, tonight's meeting will also be looking at two ongoing, active volunteer opportunities that our club is involved with. Jill Wagner, our Trout
in the Classroom chairperson, will have a presentation about this dynamic program that allows school children to raise trout from eggs in their classrooms and then have a field trip to release them
as fry into local waters. Lastly, Jerry Searcy, our Conservation Chair, will have a presentation about volunteer opportunities at the Fisheries Resource Volunteer Corps (FRVC).

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This Wednesday, March 27th, 7pm start time, Deep Creek Fly Fishers is very pleased to have Capt. Mike Gaglianese from Rockport Fly Fishing Outfitters. Mike will be speaking about Fly Fishing the Texas Gulf Coast for Redfish and other awesome species.

Mike's Bio:
I grew up in upstate NY just South of the Adirondack Mountains. As I made my way through high school and college, I decided I wanted to turn my love for fly fishing into a career. After playing baseball at Purdue for 4 years, I moved to Gunnison, CO to guide a Western River from a drift boat. 

Shortly after I realized there is no way to feed my fishing obsession up there year-round, so about 5 years ago I started coming down to Rockport on the Middle Texas Coast to get my fix in the off season. The endless wilderness and flats accessible by poling skiff that were full of sight fishing opportunities kept me coming back and staying longer. With the help of my partner Capt. Dane Scott, we spent the years fishing and guiding roughly 60 miles of the Texas Coastal Bay systems. Our season down here lasts from October to June until we escape the heat and head back to our drift boats. 

The terrain and habitat vary from marshland covered in Spartina Grass to crystal clear sand flats with a mangrove backdrop. These fish eat big flies and on a good day you can expect to be casting at fish all day. The variety and diversity of scenarios in this fishery makes it special. We see everything from schools to single tailers, spooky fish and fish that would eat a set of car keys as soon as they hit the water. All the fishing we do down here is from the poling skiff, a true spot and stalk fishery. 

Friends,

I signed a petition on Action Network telling California Fish and Game Commission to Save the Southern California Steelhead.

California Trout is leading the effort to have Southern California steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) listed as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act.   CalTrout used the best-science available to support our petition. Listing this species as endangered will be the first step that California state agencies use to inform future management decisions.  It will allow agencies to prioritize funding for restoration and ensure any projects in the fish’s range avoid adverse impacts to the population. Moreover, the listing provides acknowledgement of the species’ fundamental importance and their dire situation. We drew upon the drive and immense work of our partners in conservation and the innate desire of this state’s citizens to protect the amazing natural diversity of the landscapes we inhabit as the impetus to take this step. We need your help. The Fish and Game Commission needs to hear that allowing this species to disappear is not acceptable

Can you join me and take action? Click on link in bio to sign petition.

Fly Tying Get Together - Donuts + Coffee

Tie some flies for the Holiday Banquet Fly Auction.

Saturday November 11th, 8am start at clubhouse.

Join us at the clubhouse for coffee, donuts, and fly tying. Or bring a dozen flies you tied at home in a fly box and just hang out! This is a great way to show off your tying skills and help raise funds for the club.

If you haven't signed up yet for our Holiday Banquet now is the time. Head over to our bio and use the link to get signed up.

Today is the Last Day for Early Registration Discount!

2023 Deep Creek Fly Fishers Holiday Banquet

Sign up for $50 a person today at the meeting with cash or
check. Or click Linktree in bio to sign up on Corsizio.
Cost will be $55 each tomorrow.

The 2023 Holiday Banquet will be held on Saturday, December 9th.
Social hour with no host bar 5:00pm
Buffet dinner 6:00pm

Heads and Tails, Silent Auction, Fly Auction, Raffle, and Dessert Auction until 9pm.

Location:
American Legion Hall, just around the corner in Fairmont Park. Plenty of parking with security. Nice, spacious, clean hall.

Buffet Menu:
Stuffed Chicken Breast and Beef Brisket as half portions.
Rolls and Butter, Cranberry Sauce, Red Potatoes with Parsley Butter, Holiday Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette, Brown Butter Carrots, Green Bean Casserole.

Food by McGrath’s, excellent local caterer.

This Wednesday, October 25th, 7pm start time at clubhouse, DCFF is very happy to have Jennifer Hemmert from CDFW speaking about wild trout in our local mountains. New members are always welcome!

Jen Hemmert is an Environmental Scientist in the Heritage and Wild Trout Program. She has worked as a Wild Trout Biologist for CDFW in the Inland Desert Region in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties since 2017. Prior to her wild trout work and within the Department, she was a Reservoir Fisheries Biologist for the same two counties, plus Imperial County since 2011. She has experience in riverine, lake, and mountain meadow ecosystems. Before working for CDFW, she moved to the Sierra Nevada to pursue a career in stream ecology and fisheries in 2007. She has conducted research related to anadromous fish species of steelhead, spring-run and fall-run chinook salmon in the Sierra Nevada, Bay-Delta, and Southern California. Jen graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology.

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REPOST - WORTH IT! -- SAVE THE 2024 DATES:
~ January 25-28 > Bart Hall
~ February 10 > Trout Rodeo
~ April 6 – FlyBuy XIII
~ May 11 – Riptide Rendezvous

Tonight, 7pm start at the clubhouse. New members are always welcome!

September 27th Speaker
Tyler Vanosdell

Saltwater Fly Fishing Opportunities in San Diego County

Tyler has been fly fishing for more than 25 years. He has fly fished everything from Trout water in the U.S. to trophy Tarpon water in Costa Rica. In 2016 he graduated from the Sweetwater Travel Fly Fishing Guide School and in 2021 graduated from Sandy Moret’s Florida Keys Fly Fishing School to advance his fly fishing knowledge. San Diego has been his home for more than 18 years. With local knowledge of the waters and the love for the San Diego lifestyle, Tyler will get you where you need to be for your San Diego fly fishing experience.

Mission Bay Fly Fishing Company was started with the intention of educating and informing anglers about the fly fishing in San Diego. We specialize in walk and wade only fly fishing.

Concentrating on Mission Bay and the surf along the coast. Mission Bay is the largest
man made aquatic park in the nation! Originally named False Bay by the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542. Mission Bay has 27 miles of shoreline, 19 that are sandy beaches.

It can be fished year round with our not so bad San Diego climate! In the summer months the bay can be on FIRE!

Deep Creek Fly Fishers is thrilled to have Frank Burr as our August 23rd Speaker. (Tonight!)
He will be speaking about - Small Water: Advanced Methods.
Meeting starts at 7:00 pm at the clubhouse. New people are always welcome!

Frank Burr learned Tenkara fishing in Japan in 1970 followed by Fly Fishing and Fly tying the following year. A native of Southern California, Frank fly fishes throughout the United States, always looking for the elusive Heritage Trout. Although Trout is his favorite species, Frank will fly fish for any species just to get in a day of fishing. Frank has worked in the fly fishing industry for the past 9 years for Orvis and now for Snowbee USA, assisting in
the design of Ultralight Fly Rods and other products in the Snowbee line.
Frank is also a Fly Fishing and Tenkara instructor and Guide specializing in Golden Trout and other Heritage Trout species in California. Frank speaks
and instructs at the Fly Fishing Show and other related events, clubs and shows in the USA on a variety of fly fishing related subjects and volunteers
as many days as possible each year teaching youth fly fishing programs. He has been the Trout in the Classroom coordinator for the Pasadena Casting
Club and currently the TIC Director for the Southwest Council of Fly Fishers
International. Watch for upcoming books on Golden Trout: A California Treasure and Ultralight Fly Fishing. You can find more information about Frank at: 
http://www.oasisflyshop.com/
http://www.goldentroutdude.com/
http://tenkaraguidecalifornia.com

Lots of good things are happening with the Deep Creek Fly Fishers in the next few months. If you are wanting to learn how to fly fish now is the time!

Go to our linktree above in bio to get more info and sign up for the events and classes.

8/30-9/3 - R-Ranch in Kernville Trip

9/16 - Intro to Fly Fishing 3A
9/23 - Intro to Fly Fishing 3B

Mammoth Condo Reservation (The Closer) - 9/28-10/4

9/30 - Beginning Fly Casting

#50/50onthewater

Deep Creek Fly Fishers is thrilled to have one of our favorites this month at the clubhouse – Dave Smith.  This Wednesday 6/28, 7pm start time.  Dave will be giving a presentation on DIY New Zealand Fly Fishing.  Get there early to watch Dave tie a few flies prior to the meeting start. 

New members are always welcome!

You often hear the phrase “There’s more water than anyone can fish in a lifetime” and nowhere is this more applicable than New Zealand, with just under 1,400 public access points published by NZ Fish and Game to rivers, lakes, and reservoirs within New Zealand.

With so many options for the angler, it can be mind boggling even to know where to start.  It’s no wonder so many venturing fly anglers turn to hosted trips to take the confusion out of where to fish, how to fish, fly patterns and gear selection.  With a few tips and tricks, a DIY New Zealand trip is as easy as booking a hosted trip and a whole heck of a lot more fun.  As a world fly fishing traveller and Do It Yourself (DIY) expert, Dave will help guide you through the process of research, booking, and executing a trip of a lifetime.

Dave has been providing fly fishing presentations and on the water tutorials since 2014 and loves sharing his fly fishing and fly-tying passions. Dave is an ambassador for Semperli Fly Tying Pro Team, Partridge of Redditch, and Renomed USA fly tying scissors. Over the years Dave has been able to successfully plan and execute DIY trips around the world with his fly-fishing wife, Lesley.

If you signed up for the 6/10/23 Women's Intro to Fly Fishing and Fly Casting Class, please note that the meeting location has changed.

New address is: Springbrook Clubhouse 1011 Orange Street Riverside, CA. 92501.

It will be the same starting time only the location has changed. See you there!

Jarrett will be in Riverside on May 24th, talking to the Deepcreek Flyfishers about the excellent warmwater flyfishing opportunities in the Owens Valley! Stop by if you are in the area and sign up for the club if you are not a member, they are a great group who would love to have you!!
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Women’s Introduction to Fly Fishing and  Fly Casting Class 

June 10, 2023 8AM to 4PM 

Izaak Walton Building 
2710 Dexter Drive, inside Fairmount Park, Riverside, CA 

Free and lunch included 

Open to all and everyone invited Come and enjoy a woman inspired class designed to provide a beginning understanding of flyfishing skills  and encourage a lifelong learning of flyfishing in a  fun and calm environment. 

You MUST sign up on-line Limited seating 

Go to web site: www.deepcreekflyfishers.org. On Home page select calendar. Go  to the date of the class and click on the event. In the class description look for the  link “Click here to sign up”.

Link is also in bio above.

Stop by Sunday May 7th and meet some awesome Fly fishers! We will have a raffle you can enter for free by attending, the prize is a Maxxon Stonefly rod combo!

 

           

Want to learn how to Fly Fish?

Thought about tying your own flies?

Need to improve your casting?

Interested in learning Rod Building?

Looking to meet other fly fishers and go on fun outings?

Come Join us at Sportsman`s Warehouse in Corona on Sunday May 7th.

10-2pm

Join our club and sign up for our many upcoming classes and fun outings.

Enter a raffle and win prizes donated by Sportsman`s Warehouse.

Women’s Introduction to Fly Fishing and  Fly Casting Class 

June 10, 2023 8AM to 4PM 

Izaak Walton Building 

2710 Dexter Drive, inside Fairmount Park, Riverside, CA 

Free and lunch included 

Open to all and everyone invited Come and enjoy a woman inspired class designed to provide a beginning understanding of flyfishing skills  and encourage a lifelong learning of flyfishing in a  fun and calm environment. 

You MUST sign up on-line Limited seating 

Go to web site: www.deepcreekflyfishers.org. On Home page select calendar. Go  to the date of the class and click on the event. In the class description look for the  link “Click here to sign up”.

Link is also in bio above.

Deep Creek FlyFishers updated their address.

Want to Learn How to Fly Fish?

Here are Deep Creek Fly Fishers upcoming classes. All classes are at our clubhouse in Fairmont Park in Riverside, CA.

Link in bio/website for signups. You don't have to be a member to sign up.

Intro to Fly Fishing Part A - 4/8

Intro to Fly Fishing Part B - 4/15

Intro to Entomology - 4/22

Women's Intro to Fly Fishing and Fly Casting - 6/10



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LOTS of Classes and Outings on the horizon for Deep Creek Fly Fishers.

Outings -- Here is our Lower Owens outing. We are also heading to Lake Perris on a float tube outing.

Classes -- Lots of classes this time of year, so get signed up and learn something new!

Sign up through the link in bio or our website.

Lower Owens Outing and Education Event March 17 to 19

Join DCFF in Bishop for our annual Spring outing on the Owens River.  Meet for dinner at Las Palmas restaurant in Bishop on Friday March 17 at 6:00pm.  The club will meet for dinner on Saturday evening also, place to be determined. Everyone is invited to join us in Bishop for the weekend whether you are in a class or not!

On Saturday the 18th there will be a beginner’s class on nymph fishing with an indicator on the Lower Owens River taught by Sierra guide Fred Rowe.  Cost is $50, limited to 10. Students will provide their own gear, a list will be available upon registration.

On Sunday the 19th Fred will teach a Euro-nymphing class on the Owens for $75, limited to 6.  There will be a pre-trip meeting on Wednesday March 1st, 7:00pm at the club house to discuss gear and tie leaders for the class.  You don’t need to be registered in the class to attend.

Classes are for members only. Register at the meeting or online. Everyone is invited to join us in Bishop for the weekend whether you are in a class or not!  Contact Kurt Marcks for more information at [email protected]