Across
the Stream - August 2005
A
Publication of Heart of America Fly Fishers
HOAFF August Meeting
Monday, August 15, 2005 - 7pm
Bill Lindley & Gervis Beiriger
The guys
will show photos and discuss their recent trip fly fishing in Canada.
President's Message
HOAFF offer oppportunity to enhance your enjoyment of Fly Fishing
by Mark Borserine
We have another opportunity coming up at the end of
this month to serve both our club and community; the Olathe Aquafest on August
27th typically attracts 2,200 people.
This is a wonderful occasion to present ourselves to our wider community. If
you haven’t already volunteered, call Bill Brant at (816) 941-9691 if you find
yourself at the last minute with time on your hands, just show up and we will
certainly have something of value for you to do!
In September, there is another opportunity with a
class to be given on Saturday September 10th at the Red Bridge library in Kansas City, MO. If you can
spare a couple of hours on this Saturday afternoon, call Dave Mattes at
913-268-6161. Again, another opportunity to serve both your club and community.
In October, on the first weekend, the 6th, 7th and 8th, is the Southern Council Conclave
in Mountain Home, AR. This is something not to be missed! You will come away overwhelmed and inspired
– there is literally something for everyone!
On October 15th there will be a club outing in Branson, MO. The fishing for the first
few miles below TableRock Dam is always good and Branson is always fun to
visit. Jim Jorgensen will have information:
913-477-7701.
The Heart of America Fly Fishers offers each and every
one of our members multiple opportunities to enhance your skill and enjoyment
of Fly Fishing. Fly Fishing is a limitless sport in the sense that it is truly
a life-long learning experience. There is always a new aspect to our sport and
one of the best ways to create situations for new experiences is participation.
Come to meetings, come to outings and come out and help out with our
educational and conservation projects. You’ll benefit the club and yourself in
equal amounts. I find that the more I give, the more I get from my experiences.
Just teaching fly tying, the most basic fly tying, over the last couple of
years has increased my skills tenfold!
Alaska's
Inside Passage
A trip
of a lifetime
by Jim Ohnemus
My wife and I just got back from a extended trip to
Alaska. This trip involved fly fishing, sight seeing, and travel by
way of a ferry boat with car in tow.
This all came about when back in the summer of 2002 I
went to Alaska fly fishing with (3) other club members to salmon fish. My wife
Pat was a little upset about me going to Alaska with out her!
Because of my retirement in Feb. this year, she now
knew it was her turn to see Alaska, she talked about driving up! I said no way!
Then I found information ,the Alaska Marine Highway
(ferry boat ride w/ car) that starts at Bellingham, Wa. The route covers
the way to Inside Passage all the way to Haines, Ak, this would save
me from driving about (4) days. Also found information about lodging in the
Tongass National Forest cabin. I had (100)s of primitive cabins to choose from
(heated by oil), just one step above tent camping. But the big drawing
card was ocean front view with a salmon &trout stream running near by!
Location, location, location. That made the choice easy. I was able to
choose (2) cabins on the Prince of Wales Island ( the third largest
island own by United States) is located west of Ketchikan by about (50) miles.
So we caught the Ferry boat at Bellingham, Wa. and
jumped off at Ketchikan and inter island ferry to Prince of Wales Island. the
next day we took a float plane to Shipley Bay cabin for a week. We loved
the cabins setting and saw lots of wildlife from the cabin’s deck, bears, deer,
whales, eagles, sea otters and martins. The sockeye salmon were delayed,
stream were low so I decided to try my luck with Sea Run Cutthroats , I
caught none, but did manage to catch (3) different kind ocean fish on a minnow
pattern. It was new and fun to catch them. they were; Sea bass, Kely
Greeling and Slimy Sculpin. The latter two had webby fins, look like frog feet!
The next exciting event was a “fishing contest”
between (9) bald eagles, (3)orcas(killer whales) and one humpback whale. My
wife Pat and I viewed this from our cabin deck.
First the humpback came up and rolled down with his
tail showing, next the orcas flanked him on the left side with lots of movement
in the ocean, which caused a wake line, then the eagle came hitting the water
several times. The only explanation I had was the Humpback was feeding and he
stunned several fish that then came to the surface. which the orcas and eagles
keyed in on. It looked like they were having better luck catching fish
than me. At the end of the first week the flight out was very exciting. The
higher mountains were fogged in. So to my surprise here comes our float plane
just rounding the far end of bay with lights on heading our way. He was flying
low, just 200 ft. about water to avoid the fog.
The next cabin we rented we went by a small boat for
(15) miles in the rain. This cabin was on Karta River with another ocean view.
Nice! All of the Tongass National Forest is a rain forest, mostly spruce
very old and tall trees, some of these trees are (12) ft in diameter. At first
I thought the rain forest looks eerie, later I found it to be very enjoyable to
hike. This cabin has a very nice trail that follows the river for (2) miles.
Makes for good access for fishing. We saw more wildlife ,including
this time (5) seals that swims back and forth between the salt to the
fresh water.
The first day fishing the Karta River, I hiked a
short distance from the cabin with my four weight and caught nice rainbows
and Dolly Varden (also known as Bull Trout).
The next day, which was July 4th, I started to catch
Sockeye Salmon. This is about (10) days late for them to show up. I used
my six weight rod, I had my eight weight with me but my line was messed-up. So
with six weight I used 16 ft. sinking tip and tied on a “sockeye orange” fly
that I had jazzed up with red krystal flash and fine orange fibers.
For (3) days I was catching Sockeye from
26"-28" long. Morning and evening were the best time .It is hard to
describe how these fish set me over the top with excitement!
Just 1/4 of a mile out of the salt water, when they
took the fly the Sockeye would charge out of the water like a bullet, next they
would roll over the surface at lease (4) times!
If still hooked I would reel in a very hard fighting
salmon! I could not sight fish these Sockeye, the water was waist deep, also a
gin color. I cast across and let the sinking tip swing down stream where the
salmon were jumping. On the third day besides the Sockeye’s I caught a Chum
Salmon. The last fish of the day was a very big surprise, after I was
hooked- up, it raced toward me to my right side. It was a very strong
fish, it slowed to a stop, an then broke out of the river in front me,
landed about 8 feet to my left and made one roll braking a 10 pound tippet! As
far as I could tell it was a large “fresh” Coho. The excitement was overwhelming,
I took my tired body to the trail to the cabin.
My thoughts were reflecting the past three days of
great fishing, where are the nay sayers that say Sockeye Salmon do not
take flies!! I know I could grin them down!
I’m planning to be back to this Karta
River in the near future.
We packed-up and took the ferry back to
Ketchikan, jumping on a ferry to Juneau. We stayed in Juneau for (3) days,
toured Glacier Bay (Tracy’s Arm) where the ice continues to brake off all
summer long! We continued on to Haines. We droved to Talkeetna. Ak., took A (2)
hour fly over and around Mt. McKinley and landed on a glacier.
We traveled home by way Canada. On the road we saw
(2) grizzly bears, and one black bear, open range buffalo, mountain sheep,
moose and deer. It took eight days of driving from Tok, Ak. to home.
It was a trip of a life time!
2005 Officers
PRESIDENT
Mark Borserine
majborser@aol.com
(913) 381-0722
pAST
PRESIDENT/SECRETARY
David Andrews
davidgandrews@kc.rr.com
H (816) 741-8314
tREASURER
Paul Bennetts
pbennetts1@comcast.net
913-338-3837
NEWSLETTER
EDITOR
Tom
James
tom@blackdogsports.com
O (816)
718-0393
PROGRAMS
Cliff Cain John Bell
cliffcain@hotmail.com j.bell@kcc.state.ks.us
H (913) 780-3865 H (785) 843-1782
O (913) 433-5224 O (785) 271-3139
OUTINGS
Jim
Jorgensen Bill Lyon
jjorgens@ci.lenexa.ks.us blyon51@yahoo.com
H (913) 469-1950 (816) 525-1243
O (913) 477-7701
MEMBERSHIP
Cliff Newton Fred Clark
ccnewton@sbcglobal.net fclarks@planetkc.com
H (816) 943-8306 H
(913) 831-0305
O (816) 426 3925 x260
CONSERVATION/BLUE
RIVER PROJECT
Raymond Zook
rzook@kc.rr.com
H (816) 941-2862
LIBRARIAN
Doug McDonald
mcdoug5148@sbcglobal.net
(913) 669-5222
EDUCATION/RECOGNITION
Bill Lindley Jim Mattes
(913) 888-3177 (913) 248-1030
SPRING
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Dick Martin Don Grundy
rlm@mllfpc.com dgrundy@sbcglobal.net
H (816) 781-9557 H (816)-781-9019
O (816) 221-1430
WEBMASTER
Vicky Newton
svnewton@sbcglobal.net
H (816) 943-8306
AUCTION/RAFFLE
Dan Zimmerman
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(913) 829-4768
HISTORIAN
Bill Brant
billandkathy@kc.rr.com
H (816) 941-9691 O (913) 458-6826
SOUTHERN
COUNCIL LIAISON
Hod McIntosh
singingreels@sbcglobal.net
Home: (913) 722-3684
BANQUET
CHAIR
John Richards
jreyedoc1@aol.com
H (816) 781-0545 O (816) 781-0500
Heart
of America Fly Fishers Meetings
Meetings
are held at 7pm on the 3rd Monday of each month
Community
of Christ Church
79th
& Mission Rd, Prairie Village, KS
Hatch of the Month
Bring a fly or a couple of flies to add to the Match of the Month
collection. During each meeting names are drawn and the winner receives the
collection of flies. This is a great way to learn new fly patterns and share
some of your favorite flies with the rest of the club. Members can also donate
a dollar to enter for the drawing.
Featured
Fly Tyer
Come early to the member meeting to watch the
featured fly tyer, Steve Jenkins. If you are interested in being a
featured fly tyer, contact Dave Andrews.
HOAFF Apparel now available
Now you can get a T-shirt or a fishing hat with the
new Heart of America Fly Fishers Logo. To purchase your HOAFF apparel, see Tom
James at the next member meeting. Hats $15, T-shirts $12
HOAFF Annual Family Picnic
Shawnee Mission Park - Shelter #6
by Jim Jorgensen
Don’t forget – the September meeting is not at the
usual place. The annual family picnic
will be held at Shawnee Mission Park – Shelter #6. Bring the family so you significant others so they can meet
everyone and see what goes on in the club and have a fantastic meal. The club will provide the meat and drinks
and each family should bring a side dish to share. We hope to start eating by around 6:30 or as soon as people and
food arrive.
We will do barbecue this year so bring something that
goes with that – we are going to do our best to kick it up a notch from the
burgers and dogs at past picnics so be ready for a surprise.
Mission Park is on Renner Road, near 87th Street and I-435. When you get to I-435 and 87th go west on 87th to Renner (1st street west of 435), turn north and
the park entrance is about ½ mile at the top if the hill - upon entry to the
park stay to the right and go around the north side of the lake. Each shelter is numbered – so look for the
HOAFF sign.
To fish at Shawnee Mission Park you need a Kansas
fishing license and a park permit. You
do not need a permit to practice casting provided you are not fishing.
Fall Outing - Branson
October 15, 2005
by Jim Jorgensen
The fall outing for the club will be held this year
at Branson, Missouri on the weekend of October 15th.
Branson has easy access for fishing and has lots of other activities for
entertainment is you want to bring your spouse or others in the family.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their spouse. My wife
Angela will organize some activities for the ladies so if you are interested
please send me an e-mail. We will have
a common place for everyone to eat Saturday night.
Main accommodations will be at Lilleys’ Landing, 1-800-LILLEYS,
367 River Lane, Branson, MO 65616, www.lilleyslanding.com and the Branson
Lodge, 2456 State Highway 165, Branson, MO 65616, 1-800-334-3104, www.bransonlodge.com. Everyone is responsible for making their own
reservations.
Olathe
Aquafest
Saturday,
August 27th from 3:00 to 7:00 • Cedar Lake Park in Olathe
By Bill Brant
The Olathe Aquafest will be held Saturday, August 27th from 3:00 to 7:00 at Cedar Lake
Park in Olathe. Last year’s Aquafest had an estimated crowd of 2200 people.
We would like to demonstrate assorted flyfishing
skills and also teach flyfishing using the teaching factory that Hod developed
for the Hooked on Flyfishing programs. We can teach flytying, knots,
flycasting, and explain flyfishing equipment. We need additional club
volunteers to help.
These
events give our club the opportunity to get our name and face in front of a
large number of people. We will teach a few of them about flyfishing. Let me
know if you want to get involved.
CDC
Feathers
By Mark Borserine
Some of you saw me demonstrate the MP (Marc
Petitjean) Magic Tool as the July “Featured Fly Tyer”. Learning to use this
tool was my first experience in using CDC or cul-de-canard feathers.
Cul-de-Canard is French and literally means “Duck’s Ass”. The feathers come
from the top of the Duck’s rear end.
Petitjean has quite a bit of fascinating information
on his website (www.petitjean.com) about the use of CDC feathers
beginning among Swiss fly tyers in the 1920s. I have a fascination for “things
Swiss” because my last name is Swiss, my grandfather was a Swiss immigrant.
When I tied the first dry fly with CDC, using
Petitjean’s method with the Magic Tool, I tried the fly by floating it in a
glass of water for an hour. It didn’t sink a bit and when I took it from the
water and squeezed it, unlike the usual dry fly which “wrings out”, virtually
no water came out of it at all! I’ve
just begun exploring this material but am very excited about what I’m finding.
The Petitjean website (www.petitjean.com) has a lot of unusual and really
good-looking patterns that he has developed. Those of you who are fond of very
realistic, delicate flies will be excited by what you see.
From
Petitjean's Catalog:
The characteristics that make CDC such great material
are:
1 It is a very light material.
2 It is a very soft material.
3 But, it is a very tough, strong material.
4 It is a semi-translucent material, so that
flies with CDC have a more life-like quality than flies with other, more opaque
materials.
5 CDC is highly aerodynamic – when being cast
the CDC collapses but expands at the end of the cast and acts as a parachute as
the fly descends to the water. It therefore makes casting easier and
presentations more delicate.
6 CDC is highly hydrodynamic – under water every
filament flickers with life in the gentlest flow or on the slowest retrieve.
7 When a fish takes a CDC fly into its mouth the
soft CDC folds up like real fly tissues. So, the fish accepts it more readily
and is much slower to reject a CDC fly than a fly made of harder materials.
CDC
& Elk
by Hans Weilenmann
Step 1: Select a properly sized (Type 1) CDC feather. The longest
barbs should be approximately two times the hook shank length.
Hold the butt of the CDC feather with the
fingers/thumb of your left hand, and draw the feather between thumb and index
finger of your right hand toward the tip, bunching the tips together.
Tie in the bunch, butt pointing backwards over the
hook bend. Tie the feather down with two tight turns of thread, then slip a
third turn under the tips to force them upward and follow with a fourth turn
over the tips, just forward of the third turn, to lock the CDC barbs in place.
Spiral-wrap the thread forward to eye, then wrap back one touching turn away
from the hook eye.
Step 2: Clamp the feather butt with hackle pliers and wind the CDC
feather toward the eye in touching turns. The rear half of the body resembles a
dubbed body, but as you progress toward the eye more and more free barbs will
stand out. Stroke these back with each turn. With a little practice, you will
learn to arrive at the hook eye with only the bare part of the stem left.
Tie off the CDC feather with one or two tight turns
of thread and unclip the hackle pliers. Do not trim yet. Tighten with another
two turns of thread. The CDC butt will move with the thread, tightening further
at the tie-off point. Trim the CDC butt.
Step 3: Take a small amount of straight, fine-tipped mule deer
hair. I look for undamaged tips with distinct coloration (dark tips with a
lighter colored band further down the hair) and a fairly steep taper to the
hair, which allows me to produce the distinct, rounded head on my CDC&Elk.
Even the hair tips in a stacker. Position the bunch
of hair on top of the hook parallel to the hook shank. Measure the tips so the
wing will be long enough to just reach the back of the hook.
Trim the butts square (perpendicular to the strands)
with the front of the hook eye prior to tying in the wing.
Tie down the wing with two tight wraps of thread over
the hair stubs. Make a third wrap with the thread, through the stubs, at a 45
degree angle. A fourth wrap goes under the stubs. Complete the fly with a
whip-finish under the stubs and a little varnish. Aim for a neatly rounded
head.
Upcoming Events & Programs
August
15, 2005 Bill Lindley &
Gervis Beiriger - Canada
September
19, 2005 Club Picnic - Shawnee Mission Park
October 6
- 8, 2005 Southern Council Conclave - Mountain Home, AR
October
15, 2005 Fall Outing - Branson MO
November
21, 2005 Annual Raffle &
Auction
December
3, 2005 Winter Outing - Bennett Springs MO
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Kansas City, Kansas
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Branson,
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417-588-2116
11726
Highway 64
Lebanon,
MO 65536
Bennett
Spring State Park Concession Shop
26248 Hwy
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MO 65536
417-532-4307
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MO 65536
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MO 65536
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Outdoor Adventures
Clint
Wilkinson
272
Wild Cat Shoals Road
Gassville,
AR 72635
870-404-2942
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Riley’s Station
Miles
& Michelle Riley
129
CR 640
Buffalo,
AR 72653
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888-533-2151
870-425-4221
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Fulton’s Blue Ribbon Flies
1343 Hwy. 5 South
Mountain Home, Arkansas 72653
(870)
425-0447
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(870) 425-6954
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Rivers Fly Shop
13718 Hwy
5 South • Norfork, AR 72658
870
499-3060 • Fax 870 499-5951
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435-2288
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272-7736
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Highway
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870-435-2244
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2701 North Marshall
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785-922-6630
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Guided FIshing Trips
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