Photos from the Oct. 9th "Day on the River"

We had a great "Day on the River" with special guests Brian Styskal, Whitney Gould, and Dan McCrimmon.  We got to play with new rods and lines from Burkheimer, Guideline and Nextcast lines (including the the new Fall Favorite lines!!).
 

Some participants needed a nap! Willa the new puppy!





Whitney getting ready to show us how to cast!



Brian rigging up a line for a student!















 








Saturday DOTR in Fall City at the bridge on the Snoqualmie River!

 

Day on the River - Oct 2, 2010

The philosphy of the "Day on the River" has always been about helping each other.  Come join us on every Saturday morning 9am-12pm underneath the bridge in Fall City.

Whitney Gould & Brian Styskal - Nextcast lines and CF Burkheimer Rods

Join us this Saturday (10/9) for a special "Day on the River."  Guests Whitney Gould and Brian Styskal will be joining us from 9:00am to whenever the crew stops casting.

Brian Styskal is one of the best Internationally known Competition Casters and Speycasting Instructors. He's on the pro team for both CF Burkheimer Rods and Nextcast Lines and has just finished a season of summer guiding in Alaska ... so he should be in fine form. 

Whitney Gould is another renown Competition Caster and a top Spey Instructor.  She has taught and conducted numerous spey education activities including the Women's Day for the Sandy River Conclave.

Ladies, if you are interested in fly fishing do not miss a chance to talk with Whitney; she tells it like it is.

Day on the River 8-21-10

Day on the River 8/14/10

This Saturday's "Day on the River" was held in conjunction with Creekside Angling Company's 5th Annual Spey Daze.  Turn out for the event was good with temperature hovering around 95 degrees.  Plenty of rods, reels, lines, and presentations from the likes of Aaron Reimer, George Cook, and Charles St. Pierre added to the day's success.  

Presentation on "The Myths of Spey Casting"

This Saturday's "Day on the River" on the Snoqualmie River at Fall City will be supporting Creekside Angler's 5th Spey Daze Event at the same location.  Please join us for fun and festivities.  Aaron Reimer will be presenting "The Myths of Spey Casting" at 1pm.

Sakasa Spiders

Soft Hackle Spiders are the flies of my youth.  These days we see the popularity of soft hackle flies in Mike Kinney’s flies, Tenkara flies, and Pesca Alla Valsesiana flies.  All of these disciplines have used a reversed type hackle to make their flies more attractive to the fish.  The blending of the Sakasa Hackle with my woven body has breathed new life into my tying and fishing. 

I like to move the fly and get bored with a slack line presentation.  Using tension on presentation allows me to fish all those places that I could not using a slack line.  This series of Sakasa Spiders are tied on larger than normal hooks to make them par proof.  A par is a juvenile salmo or steelhead and mortality rate is high even if the fish is return gently.  Most of the exhaustion comes from being hooked and dragged in against the current ... with little care given to the fish.

As the summer moves on we use smaller flies yet retain the movement from the oversized hackle.  I pick hackles that are twice the body length.  In doing so, the hackle will form a large umbrella flare and will be large enough to be a noise generator along with very large profile to cover the large area of water with very few casts.