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Clark-Skamania Flyfishers
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Clark-Skamania Flyfishers has been the perfect place to learn, apply and share flyfishing knowledge for more than 30 years. Our club is the best hands-on resource for anglers of any level, from beginner through expert. If you want to learn more about casting, tying flies, building flyrods, making your own landing net or just want to have a wonderful outdoor experience, feel free to come to a meeting and see what CSF is all about.
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Elwha River Recovery Following Dam Removal
Mike McHenry, fish biologist for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, tells the continuing recovery to the Elwha River and its native fish following removal of dams that blocked the river flow and fish passage for over a century.
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CSF General Membership Meeting March 2022
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Mike Schmuck, WDFW Fisheries Biologist in Ephrata, provided this presentation to the CSF club. The breath and detail of information shared was excellent for help members find where, when, and how to fish many new and familiar waters. Mike referenced a publication and was asked for contact info. Email RexTak@msn.com . Mike offered members can contact him for help with questions. (509) 398-7531...
December 2021 General Membership Meeting
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Several CSF members shared some of their fishing ventures in the December meeting.
December 2021 Fly Tying - Georgi Damsel
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Guest tier Bart Phillips ties two go-to flies for Canadian and Pacific Northwest Stillwaters, the Georgi Damsel and Chan's Ruby Eyed Leech.
Salmon and Steelhead Above Swift Dam - A Presentation to Clark-Skamania Flyfishers
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Swift Dam blocks the north fork of the Lewis River in SW Washington. As a part of the relicensing of the dams, the owner, Pacific Power, was required to implement an effort to reestablish historical steelhead and salmon runs above the dams. In this presentation made to the Clark-Skamania Flyfishers in October of 2021, Erik Lesko, Principal Fisheries Biologist at PacifiCorp, talks about the curr...
Fly Fishing for Pacific Salmon with Brian Martz at Clark Skamania Flyfishers
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Brian Martz, General Manager at Orvis, Lake Oswego, Oregon gives a presentation on fly fishing for Pacific salmon in freshwater discussing tools techniques and timing with a focus on Oregon. The presentation was at the September Membership Meeting of the Clark-Skamania Flyfishers in Vancouver, Washington. #flyfishing #ClarkSkamaniaflyfishers
CFS General Membership Meeting September 2021
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The regularly scheduled meeting of the Clark-Skamania Flyfishers in Vancouver, Washington featuring a presentation by Brian Marz, Fishing Manager at Orvis Lake Oswego on Fly Fishing for Pacific Salmon.
CFS General Membership Meeting October 2021
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The October meeting features a Program on Restoring Salmon and Steelhead Above Swift Dam with Erik Lesko, Principal Fisheries Biologist, PacifiCorp.
CSF Fly Tying June 2021 with Forrest Koponen
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CFS Member Forrest Koponen demonstrates two effective files for stillwaters: a damsel nymph and the Peacock Willie.
Clark Skamania Flyfishers March 2021 General Membership Meeting
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March 2021's General Membership Meeting includes a presentation by Greg Hatten on 'Wild and Scenic', recollections of running classic whitewater in a wooden McKenzie driftboat in pursuit of trout.
February 2021 General Membership Meeting featuring Gary Borger
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Renowned fly fisher Gary Borger gives a presentation on the 'Fly Fisher as Predator'
Removing the dams is great for fish. Slade Gorton not getting his way is great for schadenfreude.
My understanding was that the Elwha had a unique strain of Chinook that tended to grow rather large. Their larger size would seem to help then get past the canyon easier. Do you think that the main source of Chinook being hatcheries might be why they are not making past the canyon much?
In Britain the data shows that hatched Atlantic Salmon do very poorly, having appalling survival rates and not being so vigorous working up river. A hatchery programme did save the only UK population of river running Char.
Best I've been able to figure is that there was a spring chinook run- I'm not clear if those genetics exist in the river anymore or if the strain that was "maintained" by the hatchery has the potential to produce spring returners.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba9059 So spring chinook is determined by single gene. More discussion of the article: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/small-genetic-difference-determines-chinook-salmon-migration-timing-new-study-shows It would seem reestablishment of a spring chinook run in the Elwha would be dependent on strays from elsewhere on the coast.
Barriers may include waterfalls, log jams, or other major obstacles.
Coho, a headwater spawner are very capable in upstream ventures especially in high flows, waterfalls, serious log jam or other obstacles and spawn in the same gravels or habitat types, pools, tail-outs, pocket waters with gravels so compete with Chinook for spawning sites and may super-impose redds.
Sorry, Coho are the slow water Specialists as juveniles, and gaining necessary size before ex-migration to the Ocean as that is a major survival threshold.
Backwater juveniles hatched from local gravels, are slow water specialists preferring deeper pools, backwaters, lakes, beaver dams, hiddeb within the vital cover, and it sounds like the dwd, boulder cover, high oxygen content slower moving waters and wetlands great cohort survival until outmigrants at sizes of out migration period. Smolting at between 1 and two years within the saline, brackish estuary is crucial, and the sizes of these for surviving oceanic endeavors and returning to spawn higher in the watershed.
Species of Salmonids successfully evolved into the successful Species now known to be Native to the River ecosystem.
That Diversity is inherently a driver for Salmonid Speciation from Headwaters to Estuarine thee mouth whereby such Species over Riverine Habitat Use. Other Anadromous Species and Ocean going Organisms should be considered essential to overall Elwha integrity.
Came for the Georgi damsel, nice fly, unfortunately it was out of focus on the fly but good and clear on your shirt button. Nice shirt. Ah well, get it on the next one. thanks all the same.
this really helped out alot.. thanks