Next Monthly Meeting:
Thursday, November 14, 2024 7:00PM
October Monthly Program
“Deepwater Indicatoring”
Our speaker this month is Lance Grey, certainly no stranger to GBF. His presentation will be about catching fish deep in the water column using an indicator rig down to 40 feet. The presentation will teach the strategies for using this method, how to rig the leader, fly choices, and, of course, how to fish it. This productive method can be used in any stillwater for any species.
Lance started fly fishing with his father and brother Lincoln at age 7. In his teens, he began tying flies commercially for shops around Northern California. At 17, he went to work at Powell’s Fly Shop in Chico, where he worked in the fly shop and built rods. He guided Powell’s, conducted fly-tying and fly-fishing schools, and traveled.
In 2003, he and his wife Kristen launched Lance Gray & Company, a full-service outfitter offering guided trips, fly-fishing tours, workshops, and a travel agency.
Leader’s Line
Help the club, get rewarded
The club treasury? Not quite, but close enough to be of concern. The Annual club dinner is our biggest money-maker by far. It takes some funding ahead of time to make it work. Buying raffle items, hall rental, food; all happen between September and the dinner.
To aid our cash flow, we are asking this. Most of you will renew your dues for next year, or attend the dinner, or both. So, you will be spending the money. We ask that you do that early, like asap. As an incentive, the club will give you an entry ticket for a drawing. The winner gets 50 raffle tickets to use at the dinner. A raffle ticket is $2, so 50 free tickets is a $100 prize.
We will offer the same deal on your dinner ticket purchase. But we can’t set the dinner ticket price quite yet.
Dave Stolecki (425-269-2038) is the dinner chairman. Like always, the success of the dinner depends on getting sufficient volunteers. Prize donations are also needed. Non-fishing prizes are also required. What’s a non-fishing prize? Do you have a friend, family member or client who has a business? Maybe a restaurant, rental BnB, is a good cook? I have seen a mechanic who asked his boss to donate a free oil lube; the boss said great as long as you do the labor. My wife used to own a gift store; we still are donating Blue Sky statuary.
To purchase 2025 Annual Dinner tickets, please click here.
This club has a wealth of talent. Please donate some of your time and energy to make the Annual Dinner a success.
Let’s meet on the water.
Mike McKinley, GBF President 
New on the GBF site:
- A reminder that all historic FLY TYING JAM recipes back to May of 2017 are available here in a single location under the Fly Tying menu tab. New to fly tying? Check out the educational links at the top of that page.
- Check out the new Rod Building videos (at bottom of page) found here!
- A list of all GBF past presidents all the way back to 1985 can be found here.
- A list of GBF member achievers for the Fly Fishers International Fly Casting Skills Development Program is now available here.
- Collectors and aficionados of vintage rods and reels will now find contact info for long-time expert Jim Adams of Adams Angling on the GBF Links page under Vintage Fly Gear, Books and More. A good source to check the value of granddads vintage fly gear.
To join GBF, please click here.
To renew your 2025 Membership, please click here.
To purchase 2025 Annual Dinner tickets, please click here.
| Dinner Tickets Reserved | Members Renewed | ||
Purchase your Annual Dinner tickets by Nov 30th and you’ll be entered into an early bird raffle for 50 – $2 Annual Dinner raffle tickets! Dinner tickets are $55/person plus $2/raffle ticket (qty discounts available) |
Renew your membership by Nov 30th and you’ll be entered into an early bird raffle for 50 – $2 Annual Dinner raffle tickets! Individual membership is $45, family membership is $50. |
“The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.”
― John Gierach “Fly Fishing the High Country”
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