We will NOT have a general meeting in July and won’t have another until September 4th. Until then, there are plenty of activities for you:
Have a great summer!
Posted on June 17th, 2024
Just spent a few minutes looking at old emails when I became the SCFF Newsletter editor back in April 2020. Covid19 was closing the world down and the SCFF board was trying to figure out if we would have an April meeting. The club had recently started working with a tech consultant, Vicki Winters, who was creating a new website for SCFF and we were wondering if our club members would be able to read the newsletter online and use something new called Google Groups.
It is amazing where we have all come in less than three years. Our newsletter is only available online, Google Groups lets us share information with each other all year, and the website has beautiful pictures due to your submissions to Jerry McKeon for our Instagram account.
As of now, the Newsletter Editor position is unfilled and Vicki Winters is stepping in as a consultant to make sure that we do not miss a month. In February, I will become the new President for SCFF and am excited to see how we can work together to improve our fishing club no matter what the future brings.
Happy New Year to us all! – Scott Kitayama
Posted on December 28th, 2022
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Posted on February 23rd, 2022
General Meeting……………………
April Vokey – Spey Casting for Steelhead
November Door Prize
President’s Line…………………….
Rain! Steelhead! April on November 2nd. December and January BBQ Slide Show
Fly Tying……………………
Bug Eye Nymph – Instructor: Dan Eaton
Kilowatt Fly
Conservation Concerns……………
Fish Handling–Best Practices
November River Cleanup Days
Membership Notes…………………
2022 Membership Renewal Oct/Nov/Online
A gift suggestion
Fishout Schedule…………………
Gone Fishing……………………….…
ForeBay FishOut results
Reel News……………………….…
Smith River now has a fisher Monitoring Program
Cartoon…………………………..…
Posted on October 29th, 2021
April Vokey will be talking about the British Columbia waters where she grew up chasing the salmon and steelhead migration that frequented BC’s coastal waters. She began her guiding career on the Fraser and Harrison rivers for sturgeon and salmon, but left after several season to found her own guiding operation, Fly Gal Ventures, in 2007 at age 24. The company was built on the basis of the promotion of education and encouragement to those who looked to chase their dreams. She has since established herself as a respected authority in the sport and has traveled the globe in pursuit of gamefish on a fly rod.
Her writing has appeared in numerous industry leading publications including Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod & Reel, and Fly Fusion magazines. In July 2012, April became the first fly angler to be featured in Outside magazine for their “XX-Factor” segment. She is in the process of authoring her first book.
Also a popular TV personality, April has been featured on the Outdoor Channel’s Buccaneers and Bones series, 60 Minutes Sports, The Steve Harvey show, Discovery Channel’s Refined, Discovery’s/OLN’s Close Up Kings, and WFN’s Fly Nation TV.
Most recently, Vokey proudly wrote and hosted her own exclusive series, ShoreLines with April Vokey, as shown on the World Fishing Network. The series focuses on fly-fishing’s rich history and the people it consists of. Feeling limited by airtime, she has since branched out with her podcast, Anchored with April Vokey, an uncensored series dedicated to archiving the stories and personalities from some of fly-fishing’s most influential people. The show is one of the only fishing podcasts solely recorded in a face to face environment where April ensures to ask questions apart from the norm. It evolved into Anchored Outdoors in January, 2020.
In 2013, April chose to pursue her passion for saltwater species (and a blue-eyed Aussie bloke), and therefore surrendered her Canadian winters for Australia’s & New Zealand’s summers. She now resides in Canada for six months of the year, and in Australia for the other six. Her dog, Colby, travels with her between countries, keeping her safe from grizzlies and kangaroos alike.
She is a FFF certified casting instructor, a fly-tying instructor, traveling speaker and an eternal student of life, love, and conservation. Please contact info@aprilvokey.com to enquire about bookings.
Future Speakers. Dates and speakers may change, please go to URL to see the current information.
| Monthly Speaker | Date | Excerpt |
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| Gordon Tharrett – fishing the Green river in Utah | Dec 01 6:30 PM | Gordon Tharrett will be sharing with us the remarkable fly-fishing around Utah and the Green River, where what some of the members call “The 20/20 club” – a size 20″ trout on a size 20 fly” |
| Annual Slideshow | Jan 05 7:00 PM | In January, we’re going to be back at the Sherriff’s Posse Hall for another BBQ and our annual Club Members Photo Slide Show. Submit your photos today to Tommy Polito thomaspolito12@gmail.com then come join us the first week of January – in person!!! |
Posted on October 28th, 2021
Posted on October 28th, 2021
This fly is my number one choice for bass subsurface. I normally use an intermediate sink line and trail this fly 24”-48” behind a green or black Woolybugger. I’ve also caught trout and Stripers using the same system. Use a slow retrieve . Don’t be without this fly!
Please call Dan Eaton at (831) 336-2933 to sign up and I’ll get your packet of material together for you at my front door. There is no charge for the class and all materials are provided except olive 8/0 and 6/0 thread. Or at least 8/0. If you need to borrow club thread, let me know. Beginners are welcome but you will have to contact Elaine Cook at (831)688-1561 well ahead of time to borrow vice , and tools.
If you would like to tune in to watch, that’s fine.
Future tying classes. Dates and subject may change, please go to URL to see the current information.
| Monthly Speaker | Date | Excerpt | |
|---|---|---|---|
| X-Caddis | Dec 08 6:30 PM | – dry fly for trout – streams and lakes throughout the West – Olive 8/0 thread. | |
 | Red Bead Cone Head | Jan 12 6:30 PM | – large trout and bass – appropriate for Pyramid , Los Banos Creek Reservoir, Delta and like waters – black 6/0 thread |
Posted on October 28th, 2021
Posted on October 28th, 2021
Thank you for being a volunteer contributor to the award-winning Santa Cruz Fly Fishing Newsletter. Without effort and content from the membership, there would be no newsletter at all. Below is information to make it easy to get your article into the newsletter.
3rd Sunday of the month: Articles need to be submitted.
4th Wednesday of the month: Newsletter editor has reviewed all articles.
4th Friday of the month: Online and print newsletter is created.
Newsletter is sent out over the weekend.
Articles are submitted online at: https://www.santacruzflyfishing.org/newsletter-submit/
There are specific fields in the form and below are explanations of what they are and what to do.
You can submit an article ahead of time and we will put it in the correct newsletter. If you do not indicate the month, we will put it in the next newsletter.
Please let us know if there is anything, we need to get your article to look correct on the online and print newsletter. For example, if you could not find a picture, you could describe what kind of picture you think would work best.
Helps us determine where to place the article. Take your best guess of where if it’s based on the categories below. (the editors reserve the right to move an article to another category).
Section | Description |
Monthly Meeting Program | Speaker info. |
Fly Tying Class | Information on the monthly fly-tying class. |
Fly of the Month | Instructions on how to tie a fly. |
President’s Line | Monthly musings from the club’s president. |
Reel News | Newsy items like upcoming fly shows, other organization fund raisers, lost and found, press releases of interest, reminders of getting fishing licenses at beginning of year, etc. |
Membership Notes | Information on new members, board update (i.e. treasurer’s update). |
Conservation Concerns | Information on conservation issues that affect fly fishing waters and fish stock. |
Gearing Up | Full description of the fish out and some information of what you need. |
Monthly Raffle | Items that will be raffled off at the next club meeting. |
Cartoon | Fishing funnies. |
Bait for Thought | Quotes. life lessons, and inspirational stories. |
Lifelines | Survival and safety tips. |
Recipe of the Month | Cooking recipe of interest to members. |
Fishy Tales | Letting the membership know about individual’s fishing trips. |
Gone Fishing | Reports from official club “fish out” trips. |
Cast of Thousands | items for sale, looking for items, free giveaways |
Catchy titles are best
Enter your name as you would like it to appear as the author byline in the newsletter. For example, “Conservation Director Jo Smith.”
This is where you paste in the story as simple text. Text bolding, underlining, font type and size will not be seen by the editors. If you want to have specific formatting, please let the editors know in the above field: “Notes to the editor”. Finally, please try and paste the article without a paragraph/carriage return at the end of the article.
We are trying to work around email length limitations imposed by Gmail. To allow all articles to appear in the email, we are limiting the email text of the article to the first 40 words OR a brief description of the article in less than 200 characters or about 40 words. This field is where you would put in your description. (Note: On Windows, I use a free text editor Notepad++ that counts characters as you type)
If the article submission is from another website, here is where you would enter the URL address.
Please try and include a photo/image for every article. The editors have been spending a lot of time trying to find an appropriate photo for the articles. I would be best if you could submit the article with an image. Here are some
More photos are great! May not use them all in the printed newsletter, but all of them in the online version. If the photo is supposed to be located next to specific paragraph, please let us know that in the field “Notes to the Editor”.
Again, thank you for making the SCFF newsletter a “must read” every month!
Posted on January 25th, 2021
