Next Monthly Meeting:
Thursday, July 9, 2026 7:00PM
Monthly Program
Our speaker this month will be Michael Weir. He will be talking about one of our home waters, the Yuba River. There have been many changes made to this fishery over the last couple of years. Things like restricting vehicle access below the Highway 20 bridge and, most recently, the construction of the “Nature Like Fishway” project. The what? This is the long-awaited replacement of Daguerre Dam. Do not miss this presentation.
Here’s a little bit of Michael’s background:
Growing up in the Sierra Foothills Michael was always close to Nature. Spending a lot of time at the Lakes and Rivers he learned to fish and tie flies at a young age. Once he moved to Lake Tahoe he began to split his time between snowboarding in the winters and fly-fishing in the summers. Michael spent 15 seasons fishing and guiding the waters of the Truckee, Carson, Walker rivers and surrounding waters. In 2001 he started BURL Productions specializing in adventure and outdoor films. Notable titles to his credit include FISH EYE Videos, Trout Bum Dairies 1, SOULFISH 1&2 and CALI RUSH. Michael now works for California Trout helping to protect California’s Trout Salmon Steelhead and blue-ribbon waters. Michael is an Ambassador for Patagonia Fly-Fishing, Smith, Loon Outdoors, Galvan Reels and Outcast boats.
Leader’s Line
July is here and the start of the new fiscal Year. Elections are over and we have new faces on the Board of Directors for 2026/27. I will remain as President for another year. Here the all the Board Members:
President – Robert Farley
Treasurer – Charlie O’Neill
Vice President Membership – Tom Wagner
Vice President Conservation – Rodger Paulson
Secretary – OPEN
Director through June 2029 Bruce Butler
Director through June 2029 Ed Kenney
Director through June 2028 Larry Lee
Director through June 2028 OPEN
Director through June 2027 Marie Spaulding Gray
Director – through June 2027 David Harvey
Director through June 2027– Trevor Fagerskog
Director at Large through June 2027 – Joe Tax
Your new Board of Directors will be busy discussing and implementing new projects for the coming fiscal year. If anyone has any new ideas for projects or programs, and they want the Board to explore. Please let me know, Robert Farley at gbf-president@gbflycaster.org.
Make sure to sign-up for the fish outs 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:
- The GBF Traditions webpage was released https://gbflycasters.org/gbf-traditions/
- The 2026 fishouts and education classes/workshops schedules are mostly complete for the year. Click here and here.
- 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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