Courtesy of Paul’s Guide Service

Come experience the famous Salmon River fishery west-coast style drift boat. We will quietly cover a broad area of the river to put the fly or lure into the strike zone.

Floating the beautiful Salmon River by Driftboat is a wonderful thing. You will learn many holding spots that all the fish frequent, by covering miles of the river. By using the boat as a taxi in many cases we can get away from the crowds. Along with this you can bring extra rods, cooler and clothes.

My Driftboat, is a 2010 17 foot, Willie. Its is comfortable to fish in or out of the boat. In the colder month’s it’s equipped with a propane heater to take the chill off. Floating in a Driftboat is a great way to see the river and wildlife around the river.

Start off with a nice package from Walt Geryk.  He’s a perenial fixture at Spey Nation from the beginning and an ever present sight on the river.  He starts us off with a generous “Learn to Spey” package

A Two Handed Spey On The Water Class Tailored To Your Needs for 1 Student

A one on one, 6 hour stream side lesson on the Salmon River New York or the Deerfield River Massachusetts held during seasonal times. Hardy & Greys rods, reels, the day’s soft drinks, snacks and misc. provided. Lunch not included. You decide what you need, wanting to learn the basics or expand on your current skills, then this day is for you.

Basic Casting

Learn the casts needed to fish river right and left. Single Spey, Dble Spey , Snap T, D Cast, Wombat and others

Intermediate to Advanced Casting and Fishig

Continue to advance your Spey and Scandi casting abilities. Add the Snake Roll to your current abilities and other variations in casting techniques required to adapt to changing conditions and locations. Understand sink tips, fly tracking, proven

presentations and effective drifts to increase your spey fishing success

Walt is a Professional Fly & Spey Fishing Guide, Instructor & Coach Since 1985, Walt has been promoting traditional fly fishing with catch & release for the Salmon River Region New York and the Deerfield River in Western Massachusetts. The leader for Traditional Fly and Spey Fishing serving these areas.for more information: Northeast Fly and Spey Fishing Schools

Win this trip with a raffle ticket at Spey Nation!

Never Coming Back…I feel like Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now

Paul would like anyone who has paid this year’s dues and not received their membership card to notify him so he can send the card, just in case he has missed anyone.
Vermont fry:  Jim Lawler reported that the Vermont hatchery will not have any fish for us this year, but they will keep us in mind for next year.  Their extra fish have all been purchased by the Federal Tennison Lab to replace fish that would have normally been produced by the White River hatchery.  Hurricane Irene had caused damage at the White River Hatchery, destroying this year’s supply of fish.Salmon ID poster:  Jim Morris submitted a new sample of an Atlantic salmon identification poster printed on tyvec sheet with permanent ink.  Also available an option would be to laminate the poster in clear plastic.  Another possibility would be a bright orange poster to explain our effort to stock Atlantic salmon, minimum length and catch & release recommendation.    A motion was made and passed to buy 50 of the tyvec posters with 25 of them laminated in plastic for posting along Fish Creek at access sites.  Some more work will be done on the orange poster to get the message clearer.  Copies of the ID poster will be made to be handed out at the Oneida Lake Association Meeting.

This year’s fish:  Our fish are doing very well, beginning to eat food and growing.  The transition to eating has gone well this year, with a minimum number of fish lost.  Daily visits to the hatchery by members are logged and dead fish are removed from the tanks and recorded in the log.  The automatic feeders are refilled and maintained daily.  Our older belt type feeder in Tank #1 is in need of updating soon to a new solar powered unit like the other 2 tanks have.  We plan to submit a sample for testing as soon as they grow to 4 cm in length.  Testing will take about 4 weeks after the sample is received by the testing laboratory, then stocking can be scheduled if everything is ok.Respectfully submitted, Arley Morey, Club Secretary

Simon Gawesworth:  Full Day 4 anglers max:  $250/person  Contact sgawesworth@rioproducts.com

Topher Browne:  Full Day, Inquire for Price  Contact topherbrowne@aol.com

Peter Charles:  4 hours $150/person  contact pscharles@shaw.ca

Mike Barrand:  Inquire for Price  Contact mike@waistdeepcasting.com

Please contact the instructors directly to secure a spot

Jim Morris suggested that he knows someone in Hamilton who can print a sign on Tyvec for the purpose of posting along the stream so people can be made aware of our stocking.  Gene asked if the inks would be water and ultra-violet resistant.  Jim will inquire.
Jim Lawler then talked about the Vermont fish.  We will get whatever is left after the Tunison Labs get there fish.  He will call Kevin in Vermont to see when the fish will be ready, which is expected to be end of May time frame.
Jim Lawler added that our fish need to be 4 centimeters long before they can be tested.  All of our fish have hatched but still have the egg sacks attached.
Spey Nation recently sent us a flyer saying that the entire funds raised by them, after expenses, would go to our club.
Tom Schneider said that the big hatchery sign was done and installed by the hatchery. (See attached photo)  A small sign to be put out by the road is not done yet.
Upcoming Shows:
April 14 – Herb Phillipsons, Utica
April 21 – Mohawk Valley TU, New Hartford Ice Rink
May 2 – Oneida Lake Association, CNS High School
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On April 3rd, soon after coming home, I went to the hatchery to see how this year’s Atlantic salmon are doing.  I got a candid photo of Dave Miller inspecting the fish in one of the 14 egg hatching baskets. (see attached photo.  It is nice to see this dedication in caring for our fish.)  The eggs are all hatched and the fish are swimming and still living on thr remains of their egg sacks.  This is the stage where our last year’s crop was when the hatchery was flooded on April 28, 2011.  It looks like this year’s fish are about 3 to 4 weeks ahead of last year’s.  It will soon be time to remove the hatching baskets and start feeding them in the tanks.  So, all is well at the hatchery, and if our performance and good luck continues, we should be stocking a lot of fish in June.

 
 
Respectfully submitted,
 
Arley Morey, Club Secretary

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Casting For Recovery is a charity program that introduces women who have survived breast cancer to fly fishing. In many cases the ladies are devastated by the experience with cancer and are in need of something to take their minds away from the battle with the disease.

Everyone here knows what I know; that nothing clears and refreshes the mind like time on a river or creek. Casting For Recovery has a network of volunteers across America who help to host Fly Fishing Retreats for women who are interested in trying the river as a place of refuge. But there are expenses…….

There is an effort that involves internet voting that will help the program to win a $50,000 grant to fuel these retreats underway right now. I am providing this link ……….. http://www.pinkwell.org/voting/ and I hope you will see fit to use it to register to vote for this most worthy cause.

In order to vote people must enter their e-mail address, that’s all. After doing so the home page sends a ‘voting link’ to the in box of the new supporter and they use it to cast the daily vote. I have been doing this since the challenge began and there is ‘no spam, junk mail or anything else associated with this registration’ none at all. It is what it sounds like, a contest to win support and awareness for the survivors of the disease.

The organization is on the very top of the page right under a fund raising promotion offering a book for sale. Don’t worry about the book, The vote is what we need. after today you’ll have to scroll down to find the vote button and you can vote once a day until May 15.

 $250 per person. The day would be roughly from 9 am to 5pm.

We met Dennis from Mystic Rods several years ago at the Somerset Fly Fishing Show.  Us, a small but growing band of addicts of the swing thinking that maybe there were more of us out there, getting the usual, well “How many people do you expect” and “This is your first one huh” responses from the industry.  On the way down we thought that since we had a few companies show interest in the first Nation gathering, then the others would follow suit.  Dennis and Co had the same idea in mind, that if he came to the Fly Fishing Show, put a quality product in people’s hands, then things would happen.  Over beers, after the show we talked about spey and switch, Mystic wasn’t making them at the time but had plans to, and we have kept in loose touch over the years.  Well, things have happened, for both endevours.  We are currently in our fifth year of planning gatherings and Dennis is putting quality rods in people’s hands.

Fast forward to yesterday.  Mystic Fly Rods now has a full quiver of Switch Rods and they are ready to put those rods in your hands.  Mystic Fly Rods is now part of The Nation!

They are also putting their 11 foot 8wt stick in our raffles for you to take a stab at.  It is currently the Fly Fish America 2012 Gear Guide Editors Choice and a success story in it’s own right

Welcome!