Next Monthly Meeting:
Thursday, August 13, 2026 7:00PM
Monthly Program
This month’s speaker will be Lance Gray. His presentation is titled “Steelheading on the Feather”. The Feather River, located in Oroville, CA, has a large Fall and Spring run of steelhead.
The fishery has been in the news (for good reasons!) due to the wild winter of 2017. The river has undergone many improvements. The high water has wiped the slate clean. New spawning gravel has been exposed, and side channels have been opened to rear the small steelhead and salmon minnows.
Lance’s presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of the river. The lecture portion of this presentation covers history, angling information, access points, fly-fishing techniques, and flies. Lance will explore the differences between the Fall and spring runs of fish and our tactics for targeting these great fish.
Lance has been fishing the central valley forever. Join us at the meeting and listen to his steelhead presentation. And don’t forget that Lance also haunts Lake Almanor, where a certain hatch is rumored to occur every June. He might know something about that fishery, too! Miss this presentation at your own risk.
Leader’s Line
I hope everyone is getting out there and doing some fishing.
I would like to say again thank you to those members who have served their final terms on the Board. These people have given a lot to us over the past one to three years. I am speaking of Rozaida O’Neill, Jeannie Spaulding-Gray, Diana Lilienthal, Scott Vaughn, Victor Maiello. Thank you again.
It’s starting to stay warm again in the high 90’s and some 100’s at times. So please remember to check the water temperature wherever you are fishing. If the water is over 68 degrees, then the trout could have a terrible time trying to recover after you have caught them. So, remember to bring a thermometer and check the water temperature. Try fishing at the higher elevations as this water is usually cooler.
I haven’t been fishing much, been doing some family trips, with our kids and grandkids to Lake Tahoe, Monterey, Bay area. I did go on the Tenkara fish-out to the Silver Fork. Headed possibly to Utah later this summer, I will get some fishing in there.
Fishouts are a fantastic way to fish in various places and meet many of our members. I am asking all our members to think of other places they maybe want to fish in besides the current fishouts we have now. Also, we are looking for some more fishout leaders, who are interested in leading a group of members fishing. Especially at this time we need someone who would like to lead the group for the Little Truckee and the Truckee. The club has various members who we could get to do some training onvarious aspects of fishouts. Please let Robert Farley or Tony Jelinek or Scott Vaughn know if you are interested in learning to be a fishout leader.
The Annual dinner committee has started up. Rozaida O’Neill has volunteered to lead the event. If you would like to help on the dinner committee, please contact Rozaida at rozaida@acculogistics.com.
If you have things you would like to see done by GBF, or things we can improve upon, please contact me or a board member, our contact information is at the end of The Leader.
And again, be sure to sign-up for the fishouts and make some new friends fishing together. So, get out and fish, volunteer and participate in club events. Remember the club runs on volunteerism.
Robert Farley, President 
New on the GBF site:
- Remaining LT and main Truckee fishouts for July 25 and beyond have a new leader and potentially new dates. Check the schedule here often as the situation evolves.
- The GBF Traditions webpage was released https://gbflycasters.org/gbf-traditions/
- Check out the freshly updated Library page with reorganized list of all available books and DVD’s.
- See Lower Yuba hatch chart on the articles page, bottom RH side just above the Bill Carnazzo info.
- Launch of the updated Golden Trout Program was announced Nov 18, 2025
- 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.
- 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 grand-dads vintage fly gear.
“Some days they take the fly greedily, and some days not all the art in the world, nor all the flies in the box can lure a rise.”
– “Rogue River Angling”, Medford Mail Tribune, October 26, 1911
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