Fishing Strategies for Black Bass and Blue Gill

Jim Victorine has been (off and on) a member of GBF for many years.  He was the club’s third president. In addition to serving as an officer in our club, he is currently on the board of directors for the Northern California Council of the Federation of Fly Fishers (NCCFFF).  Jim lives in Loomis and is well known in Northern California fly fishing circles.

Jim started fly fishing at age eleven and has tied flies, often professionally, for nearly 50 years.  As a master fly tyer, Jim developed the Rusty Squirrel, a description and recipe for which can be found at http://www.diablovalleyflyfish.org/fly_rustysquirrel.htm.  This pattern has enticed innumerable steelhead trout and several species of Pacific salmon since first developed in late 1974.  The Rusty Squirrel was first featured by John McKim in the Tie Flyer  section of the spring 1976 edition of the FFF Bulletin of the Federation of Fly Fishers.  Twenty-two years later it marked the twentieth anniversary of McKim’s Fly Ideas column in Western Outdoors Magazine.

In addition to being a master fly tyer, Jim currently owns and operates Sierra Foothills Fly and Rod shop located at 4800 Hidden Oaks Lane in Loomis.  In his shop he performs rod repairs on glass and graphite rods.  His specialty is the building and restoration of bamboo rods.

In addition to tying flies and building and fixing rods, Jim has been chasing black bass and blue gill throughout California.  His primary focus has been fishing for them in the nearby Sierras.  A couple of the local waters that he fishes regularly are Lake Clementine, Folsom Lake, and Lake Natomas.  His presentation to the club will cover strategies for fishing black bass and blue gill in these lakes and others in the Sierra.

When:  August 11, 2005 at 7:00 PM

Where:  Granite Bay Flycasters Activity Center, Folsom Lake, California