Hi All,<\/p>\n
This heat has brought a considerable increase in snow melt that raises the flows at the club.\u00a0 The flows hit 8000 CFS yesterday.\u00a0 That is not safe to fish in my view.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is great for the fishery, but hard on us.\u00a0 I have wanted to hold our annual Spey casting clinic, but the flows are still too high to hold the clinic.\u00a0 I had hoped to fish today, but at these flows it would not be wise. \u00a0\u00a0Holding a clinic would not be worth the cost & time to put on with these flows.\u00a0 I will do my best to put on the clinic as soon as it is safe.<\/p>\n
I thought about going down to the American to fish for Shad and discovered the American has the same problem at 15,000 CFS.\u00a0 I think it is time for doing a day of wine tasting around the area.<\/p>\n
I talked to my friend and member Jeff Putnam who puts on our clinics.\u00a0 I consider Jeff the best instructor in the nation if not world when it comes to teaching Spey or even single handed casting. Jeff taught my daughter Heidi and she was casting very well in a hour or so.\u00a0 \u00a0It is not only his knowledge and ability, he has an incredible capacity to make you understand what you are doing and what you should be doing.\u00a0 He makes it so easy to understand and also gives you tips that help you recognize when you are not casting correctly. \u00a0\u00a0If the line is not doing what you want it to do, he gives you reference point that tells you what you are doing wrong.\u00a0 That is what a great teacher does, whether it is golfing, casting or doing any sport.\u00a0 If a golf ball slices right you know what caused it and you make correction.\u00a0 Same with Jeff\u2019s teaching process.\u00a0 If your loop is not the correct shape you will know what you need to.\u00a0 Jeff is also a great guy to hang around with as he is always a true gentlemen and has great stories. Jeff also has great videos on his website.\u00a0 I \u00a0enjoy watching them over and over.\u00a0 Particularly when I have fished for a while.\u00a0 It is like getting a tune up.\u00a0 Here is a link to Jeff\u2019s website.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.jpflyfishing.com\/<\/a>\u00a0 You can get his phone number at the site.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t fish, you can always work of things that will help you when you are able to fish again.<\/p>\n It is the same with tying knots.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t do it for a while when you get on the river you not as fast or you may even have to play around a bit to tie the knot you want.\u00a0 Just take the \u201cnail knot\u201d \u00a0that I tie maybe once a year.\u00a0 That knot should take a few seconds.\u00a0 Tie it once a year and it takes several minutes of your fishing time.\u00a0 Just think about how much time you spend tying knot.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t fished in a while grab a few yards of line and tie a few knots during a commercial when you are watching the news.\u00a0 It your changing flies and using different techniques you can easily chew 20 minutes of your fishing time tying knots.\u00a0 If you can cut that time down below five minutes it can be the difference between a good and bad day of fishing. If you are tying on a new fly during a hatch, every second is important.\u00a0 Hatches normally do not go on long periods.\u00a0 They come and go.\u00a0 So work on tying that improved clinch, surgeons and perfection loop knots.\u00a0 Here is a link to a good animation video of knots. \u00a0https:\/\/howtoflyfish.orvis.com\/fly-fishing-knots\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tight lines,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tom<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi All, This heat has brought a considerable increase in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-trout-preserve"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}