Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders

Friday, 29 April 2016

{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Motherload of herring at roaches run

Went down to roaches on Tuesday to do some bass fishing. When I got there I saw this the herring were too heavy to throw anything without snagging one. Thought it was pretty cool. https://youtu.be/-gi01MJiTLQ

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{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: TPFR Updates Spring 2016

Thanks for the report, Dalton!

On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 9:46:37 PM UTC-4, Dalton Terrell wrote:

TPFRs,

A week ago Rob Snowhite hosted the TPFR officers for a board meeting and dinner, and I feel everyone is due for a few updates with the club.

New Officers
We shaken up the board a little, Trent Jones will be assuming the Vice President role, and Art Noglak will be our Event Coordinator and Davis Walker taking over as Merchandise Coordinator. Our new board members have both been active in the club for the past couple years and have offered to step up in these positions. Art will be taking the lead on non-Beer Tie events we'd like to hold in the future, and Davis will be working to dial in future merchandise and handle logistics of our upcoming online store (oh yeah, this is coming soon). We're excited to have more new blood in leadership! If anyone else wants to join the board, the basic formula is to bring up some ideas and be willing to implement them--we'll take you with open arms!

Upcoming Events
Trent and Art are working together to put together a Bluegill Tournament for this Summer, and looking at posts today I think Art his location dialed in. Generally, we want to have a one day photo tournament, where you'll have 12 hours to fish for panfish at the location of your choice and then e-mail in photos to us. The night of the tournament, we'll meet at a bar and judge for biggest bluegill, most bluegill, best by catch, etc... it'll be a real hoot. Dates and details forthcoming on this.

We also want to put on an in person swap meet. We've had some interest in a Buy/Sell/Trade section of this google group, and as much interest in not bogging down the posts with this. We think a good compromise is an in person swap meet to do this. No dates or locations for this yet, but we think we can pull it off.

Later in the year or possibly next fall, we'd like to pull off a film tour/festival event. This is very much in the preliminary stages but we see this as a good opportunity to raise money for TPFR or outside groups.

Finances
A few of you have asked me about our financial situation, I'd like to have at least annual or semi-annual reports going forward

First off, in the last six months we have raise $1838 for outside groups from raffles, including Frogman Outdoors, Friends of Fletcher's Cove, and Project Healing Waters. Thanks a ton for the great work from our donors and raffle ticket buyers!

For a current update of our finances, we have about $1350 in the bank right now--a good chunk of change. However, we're going to get pretty soon with a $350 annual insurance charge; each of our Beer Ties costs us about $30 and our web hosting costs $130 per year. In total, we have a base budget of $800-1000 per year that we'll continue to pay for with some raffles, merchandise and other events. Thanks for everyone's generosity!

Openness to New Ideas
If there is anything else you want us to do, don't hesitate to contact any of the officers.

Thanks for all of your support and hard work to everyone!

Dalton

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Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Keys Trip Partner

I could easily see where it can be done using a spinning rod which seems to be how most of the ones I saw on google were caught. Its hard to tell how many of those fish were caught on a fly rod (if any).

On Friday, April 29, 2016 at 9:22:27 AM UTC-4, Jeff Silvan wrote:

A quick google search will turn up tons of pictures. I guess it's your definition of "all the time" but it's certainly not uncommon. I only been to the Keys a couple times to fish for migratories, but every time I've been out (for tarpon or otherwise), I've seen 3 or 4 people on kayaks chasing the big boys. I also know quite a few people that go offshore for sailfish, marlin, and tuna and launch a kayak to fish from the mother ship. There's a pretty crazy big game kayak fishing community out there.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Yambag Nelson <northstreet...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have spent a lot of time fishing the keys for tarpon and I cannot fathom how difficult it would be to fish for them from a kayak. From positioning your boat, to seeing them, to making the cast, to feeding them, would be extremely difficult. Never mind once you actually hook them. I highly doubt it happens all the time. Maybe baby tarpon, but the big migratory fish, I don't think so.

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Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Keys Trip Partner

Doubter beware - http://blog.avfoni.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/avfon%C4%B1tpam.jpg

;)

From: Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Jeffrey Silvan <jeffreysilvan@gmail.com>
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Date: Friday, April 29, 2016 at 9:22 AM
To: Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Keys Trip Partner

A quick google search will turn up tons of pictures. I guess it's your definition of "all the time" but it's certainly not uncommon. I only been to the Keys a couple times to fish for migratories, but every time I've been out (for tarpon or otherwise), I've seen 3 or 4 people on kayaks chasing the big boys. I also know quite a few people that go offshore for sailfish, marlin, and tuna and launch a kayak to fish from the mother ship. There's a pretty crazy big game kayak fishing community out there.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Yambag Nelson <northstreetwreckingcrew@gmail.com> wrote:

I have spent a lot of time fishing the keys for tarpon and I cannot fathom how difficult it would be to fish for them from a kayak. From positioning your boat, to seeing them, to making the cast, to feeding them, would be extremely difficult. Never mind once you actually hook them. I highly doubt it happens all the time. Maybe baby tarpon, but the big migratory fish, I don't think so.

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Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Anybody know a good place to buy micro trout flies from?

Thanks, guys. I'll probably try to fish them at the Beav in MD, where I've recently done well on size 26s, and some other spot(s) TBD.

That's a deal Gene. See you at the next beer tie; I'll be wearing a green hat and Guinness.

On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 8:21:45 PM UTC-4, Nick Swingle wrote:

I've bought some small flies from a place called san juan river flies

On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 5:30:44 PM UTC-6, Rob Snowhite wrote:
That's some mashugana small fly you want to toss. Met a guy at the PHWFF Salmon River trip a few years ago that used latex bands from white tube socks on flies that size.

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On Apr 28, 2016, at 6:52 PM, arthur...@gmail.com wrote:

That sounds like a good deal!

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 28, 2016, at 6:45 PM, TurbineBlade <doubl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, and sorry -- didn't answer your question. Elk Springs resort used to have an online fly shop which sold flies, including 32s of various patterns. It looks like Dave is guiding independently now, and I do not see the website any longer.

Tiemco (518) and other companies are also seldom producing 32s in my experience over the past few years -- nearly anywhere that lists them is "out of stock".

Really, the smallest fly I use at all is a #22-24 Al's rat (pupa) in the film, and it really is fun when fish keep hitting it when other things don't work at all. They're so incredibly easy to tie, it wouldn't make sense to buy them unless you just don't tie at all.

If you want, I can bring you 2 dozen at next beer tie in exchange for an order of fish and chips.

Gene

On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 6:35:55 PM UTC-4, TurbineBlade wrote:
Anytime someone mentions #32s I think of Dave Breitmeier out on the Elk too.

It is fun to hook a decent trout on teeny flies and light tippet when nothing else works (like midging in the dead of summer), but in reality I've rounded a street corner and slipped on a rat more in the past 4 years than I've been in a fishing situation requiring 32s.

Gene

On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 6:07:59 PM UTC-4, arthur noglak wrote:
We're are you fishing those little guys? Elk River WV maybe?

Art

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On Apr 28, 2016, at 5:19 PM, Ashley Frohwein <ashleyf...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm looking for some really small (size 28-32) nymphs (probably pheasant tails and midges) and dries (tricos and other mayflies). Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

And no, I'm not even going to attempt to tie some myself; not with these eyes.

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Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Keys Trip Partner

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Yambag Nelson <northstreetwreckingcrew@gmail.com> wrote:

I have spent a lot of time fishing the keys for tarpon and I cannot fathom how difficult it would be to fish for them from a kayak. From positioning your boat, to seeing them, to making the cast, to feeding them, would be extremely difficult. Never mind once you actually hook them. I highly doubt it happens all the time. Maybe baby tarpon, but the big migratory fish, I don't think so.

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{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Keys Trip Partner

I have spent a lot of time fishing the keys for tarpon and I cannot fathom how difficult it would be to fish for them from a kayak. From positioning your boat, to seeing them, to making the cast, to feeding them, would be extremely difficult. Never mind once you actually hook them. I highly doubt it happens all the time. Maybe baby tarpon, but the big migratory fish, I don't think so.

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