Granite Bay Flycasters

fishing tomorrow mon 05/12 anyone

travelmaster — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:46:20 GMT

Looking for anyone who would like to fissh tomorrow I have a float tub or pontoon any ideas?

East Walker River

Bob_DeRoss — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:39:54 GMT

Fished the East Walker River with Bill Ossolinski last Tues.,Wed. and Thursday. Weather was perfect and the water flow was at 92cfs,which is the right amount of water to fish and to be able to cross the river when needed. Tues. afternoon fished below the dam and did not get a take. Wed. morning fished on the Nevada side and Bill caught two fish
+- 16", both were rainbows. Wed. evening at 5:00pm we fished the Nevada side again, but a little closer to the state line. I hooked 4 fish and landed 2. Bill hooked 7 fish and landed 4. All were rainbows from 16" to 19". These fish were HOT!!!.The bows would smack the streamer, break the surface and then shoot to the bank, down stream or up stream with a few more jumps. Bill has fished these waters for 30 years. He showed me how to fish a streamer and the feeling you should have when the streamer is making it's drift. He said this is how it use to be. Well, for one night we caught it just like it use to be.

Thanks Bill.
We used a streamer that we bought at Ken's in Bridgeport.
You can see from the caddis on the branch that the fish have plenty to eat.

Bob De

Let's be Careful Out There

Gary_Flanagan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:05:48 GMT

This occured at the Yuba a few days ago.

The water under the Hwy 20 Bridge is about 3-4 deep with a very strong current. When the boat approached the bridge pier from upstream the boat went sideways against the pier and rode up on the pillow of water that forms. The boat flipped and immediately sank. The guide got out - barely. They tried prying the boat with poles - that did nothing.

A friend of mine took these pictures.

Robdog's misadventures/adventures of Flyfishing

robdog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:55:42 GMT

Checkout my new blog. It's about misadventures/adventures of Flyfishing

WATER 4 FISH update

MrsFinsallaround — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:32:22 GMT

Cameron Park fishout "CANCELED"

fishon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:42:50 GMT

Bill King and I decided to cancel the fishout. We don't like to fish in the rain or wind, and yes we are WIMPS. Cameron Park is open to the public if you took the day off from work and you must fish. Bill King will pick another date, maybe a early afternoon BQ and a sundown fishout.

2008 Creek Week Update

DavidBaker — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:30:30 GMT

It was a very windy day on Saturday April 19th, but Frank Stolten, Rick Radoff, Joe Aichroth, Bill Hagopian and Tom Pettey managed to keep the GBF display booth from blowing away at the Roseville Earth Day celebration. They did a great job in representing our club to the public. Thanks guys!

Just a reminder, the GBF water hyacinth removal project is this FRIDAY, April 25th (not Saturday). It starts at 9:00 AM on Linda Creek in Granite Bay and should last 3 to 4 hours. A map to the specific location can be found on the GBF website under Conservation (make sure that you refresh the page if you are getting the old date for the water hyacinth removal activity). Bring your waders.

David
Home: (916) 315-0715
Cell: (916) 367-3110

Greenstone Fishout 4/19, but go to the Kiene Expo First! Why?

TonyH — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:39:41 GMT

Folks,

I will be e-mailing you the gate code for this Saturday Fishout. If you have signed up for it and do not receive a message from me, please e-mail be at hamamoto@cwnet.com.

Why go to Kiene Expo first?

1. Meet friends

2. Learn something new

3. Enter the Raffle, I understand there is another special raffle if you buy merchandise totally over a certain amount to win a Sage Z rod.

4. Also I donate a pass for 2 to fish in Greenstone.

5. Try out the new gear at Greenstone,

6. At the Expo talk and ask questions to Ken Hanley ,Bill Carnazzo and Pete Peterson about what will work at Greenstone for the fishout. This afternoon Ken, Bill and Pete came by to fish at Greenstone.

See you Saturday,
Tony

Rancho Murieta

Bob_DeRoss — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:31:19 GMT

Bill,
Thanks for putting together the bass fish-out.
I enjoyed the company of all that were there.
Pete, Kute was not there and Bill put the entire fish-out together himself.
Check out the picture of Bill on the swing.

Thanks Bill,

Bob De

Federal Judge Tosses Plan to Export More Delta Water

MrsFinsallaround — Thur, 17 Apr 2008 22:58:50 GMT

Posted by Dan Bacher on 2008-04-17 11:13:44 ON Dan Blanton's BB

Federal Judge Tosses Plan to Export More Delta Water

by Dan Bacher

(Fresno) Federal judge Oliver Wanger on April 16 tossed out a controversial federal plan that would have allowed more pumping of water from the imperiled California Delta at the expense of five species of protected chinook salmon and steelhead trout.

Recreational fishing, commercial fishing and conservation groups and the Winnemem Wintu Tribe celebrated the ruling as a victory for the millions of Californians who depend on the delta for drinking water, fishing jobs and agriculture. The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is the largest and most significant estuary on the West Coast - and increased state and federal exports to subsidized agribusiness and southern California in recent years are a key factor in the collapse of Sacramento River salmon.

In his opinion Judge Oliver W. Wanger relied on the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) own finding that diverting water from the bay-delta was killing huge numbers of salmon. He said, This morbid projection is inconsistent, if not irreconcilable with the agencys opinion that the project operations did not jeopardize the survival of the fish. He also faulted the agency for failing to analyze the effects of global warming on the fish, calling that failure arbitrary and capricious.

"How extirpation of approaching one-third of the species affected by Project operations does not constitute jeopardy is not explained," said Wanger. "NMFSs no jeopardy conclusion for the Project operations effects on the spring-run Chinook is expressly contradicted by underlying data and opinions of the BiOp."

The ruling that throws out a 2004 long-term water plan known as OCAP (Operating Criteria and Plan) comes in the wake of the federal Pacific Fishery Management Council's April 10 decision to cancel this years commercial and recreational salmon fishing season because of an unprecedented collapse of Sacramento River chinooks. The California Fish and Game Commission on Tuesday unanimously voted to close state waters in conformity with the federal body's decision.

The Commission will decide on whether or not to close salmon season on Central Valley rivers at its meeting in Monterey on May 9. However, it is extremely likely that the Commission will close salmon fishing on the Sacramento, American, Feather, San Joaquin and other rivers in conformance with the PFMC's "zero take" allowance for the dwindling salmon population.

Earthjustice Attorney Mike Sherwood, the same attorney that litigated to get winter run chinook salmon protected under the federal Endangered Species Act in the early 1990's, also litigated this case successfully.

With his decision today, Judge Wanger has placed salmon survival back at the center of Californias struggle to protect our natural heritage, said Sherwood. There are several man-made factors that have contributed to the collapse of salmon runs. One factor is pumping too much of our water from the delta and exporting it south. This ruling makes it clear that there are biological limits to the amount of water we can export south.

"The teachings of our Spiritual Leaders and our inherent cultural beliefs - that the salmon are our relatives are sacred and necessary for the continuation of life - makes us feel happy and sad on this day," said Gary Mulcahy, governmental liason for the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, after hearing of the historic decision. "We are happy that the salmon who cannot speak for themselves had friends, allies and warriors to step up on their behalf and because of that they may yet have a chance to continue in the cycle of life. We are sad that it had to come to this and the near extinction of our relatives before it was acknowledged that the people who had the responsibility to actually protect them were in fact responsible by intentional manipulation and misstatement of facts for their near total extinction."

He emphasized, "But, has that not been the case throughout water management in California? Nothing seems to be important to those that want to take, except how much more they can get. We thank Judge Wanger for not letting this one pass."

My congratulations go to Sherwood, Mulcahy and the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, Craig Noble of NRDC, Zeke Grader from PCFFA, Christina Swanson of the Bay Institute, Sejal Choksi of the San Francisco Baykeeper, California Trout, Friends of the River and the Northern California Council of the Federation of Fly Fisheries for this huge victory!

More info: http://www.danblanton.com/viewmessage.php?id=102872

Two Key Fish Restoration Bills Pass Through Assembly Committee

MrsFinsallaround — Thur, 17 Apr 2008 22:12:45 GMT

Two Key Fish Restoration Bills Pass Through Assembly Committee

Photo courtesy of Assemblywoman
Wolk's office

By Dan Bacher, The FishSniffer, April 16, 2008.

Two key fish and wildlife habitat restoration bills, AB 1806 and AB 2502, passed through the California Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee on Tuesday, April 15. These two bills are greatly needed at a time when the Central Valley chinook salmon population and the California Delta ecosystem are in a state of unprecedented collapse.

For the first time in history, commercial and recreational fishing for chinook salmon this year will be banned in ocean waters off California and most of Oregon. While the Bush and Schwarzenegger administrations blame the collapse on "ocean conditions," a coalition of recreational and commercial fishing groups, environmental groups and Indian Tribes contends the collapse is largely the result of increased water exports out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and declining water quality caused by agricultural pollution.

AB 1806, the Fish Rescue Plans Bill by Assemblywoman Lois Wolk (D-Davis), passed through the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee today on a vote of 8-5, with the State Water Project and Federal Central Valley Project mitigation requirements included. The next stop will be the Assembly Appropriations Committee in a couple of weeks.

However, legislative staff anticipate it will not come up for an actual vote in Appropriations Committee for several weeks, probably later in May.

AB 1806 requires public land managers to prepare emergency fish rescue plans before undertaking a project that would have a significant adverse impact on fishery resources in the Delta. The bill covers mitigation for the Prospect Island fish kill and requires direct and indirect mitigation for fish losses from the state and federal water export pumps in the California Delta. If this measure is passed, there would be millions of dollars of mitigation money available for rapidly dwindling chinook salmon and Delta fish populations.

"We strongly support AB 1806, particularly the provisions that require mitigation by the state and federal delta pumping facilities," said Dick Pool, representing Pro-Troll Fishing Products, the American Sportfishing Association and Water4Fish.org.

Direct mitigation is for fish killed directly at the pumps or in Clifton Court Forebay. Indirect mitigation is for losses of fish that are pulled out of their normal migration path by the pumps, but perish before they get to the pumps.

"The state has never mitigated for indirect losses and the federal pumps only mitigated for direct losses for a few years," said Pool. "The federal pumps have never mitigated for indirect losses. Many biologists believe that indirect losses are far greater than direct."

The Allied Fishing Groups, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) are also supporting the bill. The Desert Water Agency, Valley Ag Water Coalition, Association of California Water Agencies, State Water Contractors Association, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and other agricultural districts that take water from the Delta are opposing the legislation.

The Central Valley Flood Control Association and the Resource Landowners Coalition indicated they would likely be removing their previous opposition to AB 1806 in the committee hearing yesterday, based on the amendments that were taken.

Wolk's AB 2502 also passed easily through the Committee today without a single no vote, though 3 Republican Assemblymen abstained. This bill will create a Delta Ecological Restoration and Recreation Area that will allow increased angling, hunting and other recreational access while providing needed fish and wildlife habitat.

"This bill is an excellent opportunity to accomplish ecosystem restoration in the Delta while enhancing the local economy by creating greater opportunities for recreation such as hunting and fishing, and other outdoor activities," said Wolk. "These islands have been neglected and poorly managed, as was shown by the devastating fish kill that occurred on Prospect Island this past December. It's time for a new approach and someone to take charge."

Ducks Unlimited, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, the Recreational Fishing Alliance, California State Parks Foundation, and Trust for Public Land are supporting the bill. The CA. Central Valley Flood Control Association is opposing the bill.

Wolk proposed for the state to buy Prospect Island and Little Holland Tract from the federal government and Liberty Island from the Trust for Public Lands and turn them into a state recreation area. However, a Trust for Public Lands spokesman said at the hearing that they plan to donate their land for the creation of the recreation area!

Thanks to everyone who attended the hearing or wrote a letter in support of these two badly needed bills. We need to let everyone know we won round one and that round two will be more difficult. We will need many more letters of support if we are to get these two bills out of the Assembly in the coming weeks!

Rancho Murieta thanks

peterkoistinen — Thur, 17 Apr 2008 14:58:46 GMT

Thanks Bill and Knute for hosting a great outing. Despite the relatively cool, windy weather (and cool water temp) the bass were biting, especially in the smaller, shallow pond.

It sounds like everyone did well using damsel nymphs, perch fry (thanks Jim Holmes for tying instruction), wiggle tails (thanks Gene Goss for tying instruction), clousers, etc. Lines used ranged from floating down to 200 gr. sink tips (I think most used intermediate).

Did anyone catch a lot using surface flies?

Most fish were about 2 lbs. and I'm pretty sure someone caught a 4 lb.

Thanks to the chefs for the good BBQ and chili lunch.

Thanks again to Bill and Knute for an excellent day

Cameron Park report 4-17

fishon — Thur, 17 Apr 2008 14:09:07 GMT

I'm going to fish Cameron Park today with Bill King a pre-fishout, all are welcome to join us.

Bad Ass Bass

fishon — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:24:23 GMT

After looking at this video, i think Paul and Robin should do another Delta fishout. info@bassnfly.com

GPS class for members

billcarnazzo — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:36:30 GMT

I'm looking for a volunteer to teach an evening class on GPS--types, how to use them, etc. Members have asked for this in the past, and would appreciate the opportunity to learn from someone who has used the GPS system and can convey practical advice. Please give me a call or send me an email message if you are knowledgeable in this area, or know someone who is available and can teach the class.