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March 7, 2004, Sunday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm Free Fly Tier's Round Table "Successful Patterns For Central Oregon Lakes"
	Central Oregon has dozens of premier lakes and reservoirs that offer a huge variety of fly fishing opportunities. There are small forested alpine lakes, desert lakes, snow melt lakes, lakes in glacial cirques, shallow lakes in the dry beds of giant ice age lakes and ancient seas that have been receding for thousands of years, public lakes abound on government managed land, there are also private lakes designed just for fly fishing, there are huge trout in some lakes and smaller trout in others. Each lake has a separate unique personality. Some can be challenging. They are all fun. Marc Williamson has fished and tied flies for many of these lakes. If you want to learn more about fly fishing lakes in Central Oregon, attend this clinic.
The programs and instructions are free. So are the coffee and snacks. Bring snacks to share if you want to. Bring your own tools, and materials and tie along. Beginners are welcome. Group Leader: Marc Williamson There will be a half hour slide show about local lakes by Mark Bachmann 12:30-1:00

Steelhead Fly Fishing: Is A Learning Experience
	It can be called, "Steelhead Fly Fishing" or "Fly Fishing For Steelhead". This sport leads to a deeper understanding of the natural world that we and steelhead live in. Steelhead are magical creatures; unique among fishes. They have much to teach us. For that reason alone, fly fishing for steelhead is worth the pursuit. You know they are beautiful. You've seen all of those fresh steelhead pictures on our web site. There are pictures from all times of the year and from many different rivers. All those beautiful
steelhead were caught with flies. You know that. And now you want to catch some steelhead with flies yourself. But, you've heard from other anglers that catching steelhead with flies is very difficult. You've heard right. A very small percentage of the fly-angling public catches steelhead with flies. Yet, some of those anglers catch lots of steelhead per season. They do it with the right tackle and the right acquired skills. Our steelhead schools are designed to give you those skills in the quickest, most efficient, most fun, most cost effective manner possible. It's easy: First learn to cast. Then learn to present the fly. Then learn to hunt. Then learn to land steelhead.

Our Steelhead Guides & Instructors
An instructor is the person who teaches a school to prepare you for a certain task.
A guide is a person who takes you to a certain place. Our guides are also instructors.
However, any guided fly fishing trip will be more productive if you have already acquired the skills to deliver the fly to the fish.
Attending a series of steelhead fly fishing schools before going on a guided trip
can pay real dividends.

LEARNING TO CAST
Learning to cast well is the most essential part of learning to catch steelhead. We use both shingle-hand and two-hand fly rods. The two-hand fly rod, also spey rod, has recently become the most popular instrument for presenting flies to steelhead and salmon. This is especially true when larger rivers are being fished. Spey rods allow any angler to cover more water, more efficiently. A spey rod enables an angler to present his or her flies at longer ranges, even where there is little room for a back-cast . This is because the back cast is not aerolized. Rather a change-of-direction roll cast is performed. This is called a spey cast. There are many types of spey casts. Some are hundreds of years old. Others have recently evolved. You can learn all of them from us. We offer the best instruction in a comprehensive, yet affordable package.

SPEY CASTING CLASSES
This class is taught by Ron Lauzon and Leroy Teeple, who are both Oregon Licensed Guides and FFF Certified Fly Casting Instructors. Ron and Leroy have a combined total 20 years of fly casting experience. Both men are students of the art of fly casting and the art of teaching fly casting in the most understandable and efficient manner. Here is a spey casting school that comes in manageable classes. You can take any or all of the classes. We suggest that you take them all.

All classes are a minimum of 4 and maximum of 6 students. This gives an instructors to student of 2-3 per instructor. You will receive nearly constant hands-on help.
Each class starts in our state-of-the-art class room with your instructor presenting a multi-media orientation program. This will help to mentally prepare you for your on-the-water experience. Your instructors will then drive you to the river for the rest of your class.
Students should make arrangements at time of registering for equipment to be used in the class.
Good time to test drive a new rod.

INTRODUCTORY SPEY CASTING CLASS: This is the beginning. This class is about spey casting at its most rudimentary level and will provide a solid foundation to build upon. It is for those wanting to try spey casting for the first time or those who are struggling. We will learn the basics of the, roll, switch, single spey, and the double spey casts with single and double handed rods. Date: March 20, 2004 8am – Noon. Cost $75
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SPEY-CL1	Introductory Spey Casting Class - March 20, 2004	$75

INTERMEDIATE SPEY CASTING CLASS:
This class is for all students that have completed the Introductory Spey Casting Class above. Also welcomed are those anglers who have had some spey casting experience. We will refine the basic casts and demonstrate the Perry Poke, Snap T/C cast and how to fish with a double-handed rod.

Date: March 27, 2004 8am – Noon. Cost $75

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SPEY-CL2

Intermediate Spey Casting Class - March 27, 2004

$75

ADVANCED SPEY CASTING CLASS: This class is for those wanting to add distance and power to all their casts with accelerated D-loops and learn advanced casts: such as; The snake roll, underhand, square cut.

Date: April 3, 2004 8am – Noon. Cost $75

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SPEY-CL3

Advanced Spey Casting Class - April 3, 2004

$75

THE NEXT STEP:
One-Day Spring Steelhead Fly Fishing School
Take a drift boat ride down the Sandy River with:
Mark Bachmann, Brian Silvey and Ron Lauzon.

Spring Steelhead fly fishing is very practical if you know how. Being able to find fish and being able to present the fly properly are key factors.
We will show you how.
This is a school that will cover a lot of water and fishing knowledge in one day.
Length of the class is 8-hours on the water. Three student per instructor format. Emphasis will be on giving you a solid foundation of skills to build on, with a high priority given to hooking fish during the class.

We want to give you maximum advantage by having as many fish hooked during this class as possible. Nothing teaches you more about fishing than being where fish are being hooked and landed. Emphasis will be on spey rod casting and sinking-tip line fishing, but will also cover single handed rod techniques. Learn how to locate steelhead water and how to approach it.
Watch an expert guide as he fishes and discloses the secrets and proven methods that put fish on the beach. Get a lot of hands- on help so that you too can be productive.

Bring your own waders, rain gear. Bring your own rod/reel set up if you want to.
A variety of premium quality 2-hand and single-handed rod/reel set-ups will be available for you to use at no extra charge. Flies are supplied.
A hot lunch will be served on the river.
There will be a very short rest period after lunch.
Meet at The Fly Fishing Shop at 6:30am for orientation.  Coffee and donuts will be served.

Arrive back at The Fly Fishing Shop at 6:00pm.
What our customers say. A report on our last Steelhead School.
9 students per class only!
First come, first served.

What is the Sandy River Spey Clave?
It's the most copied spey casting program in the world.
It's a gathering of anglers interested in two-hand fly rod fishing.
It's a format for the exchange of spey casting & fishing information.
It's a free spey casting college open to everyone.
It's a show for your entertainment.
It's a place to rub elbows with the best spey casters and steelhead anglers
in the World!
Has been termed, "The Woodstock of spey casting events"!
Be there or be square! More info.

individuals or may cover over a hundred acres. They are often visible when slashing the surface while feeding. Bonito eat a variety of smaller bait fish, including sardines and anchovies. These bait fish can be tiny fry or as large as six inches long. Stomach autopsies have also revealed shrimp and small swimming crabs. Most Bonito are caught while trolling. We have even caught Bonito on giant flies used for

teasing up billfish. However, Bonito can be caught while casting. Our best luck is to sneak up on a feeding school and cast small flies into it. Bonito are incredibly spooky. The approach of a noisy boat will usually put them down. I have often wondered if the stealthy approach provided by an electric trolling motor might turn the tide. No one seems to have electric motors on their bluewater boats. Even when Bonito are slashing the surface in reckless abandon they can be very selective feeders. Usually anglers try using flies that are too large. When Bonito are hooked they pull hard and will usually surprise a novice angler. Bonito are small fish by blue water standards. They average is 2-5 pounds with somewhere over 10 pounds being the fly rod world record. I might have caught and released one that was larger while fishing out of Loreto, Mexico. It put a heck of a bend in a #12 rod for a long period. I turned it loose.

The Swimminer Series are streamer/baitfish imitations that wiggle and swim. Constructed as either weighted or un-weighted so that they can be fished either shallow or deep, these flies can be fished at a variety of depths with either floating or sinking fly lines. The un-weighted series has a slow wiggle and the weighted flies have a faster wiggle. All Swimminers are tied on saltwater-safe hooks. It is the combination of wire re-enforced, epoxy coated, concave

shaped bill and soft, buoyant, flowing body materials that give Swimminers their unique action and life-like appeal. They might be classified as the fly fishers' "Rappala plug". Swimminers are new and the full extent of their usefulness hasn't been fully explored. They are proven on Large Mouth and Small Mouth Black Bass in fresh water, and on Jacks, Snook and Dorado in saltwater. Every fly has a mono-loop weed guard. Because of the air and water resistance created by the bill, Swimminers are

not particular easy to cast. Heavy rods open loops most enjoyable. These flies can be presented with all manner of floating, intermediate and sinking fly lines. Rio DeepSea and Clouser lines are specifically designed to cast "hard to handle" flies. A short, stout leader will help maintain control.

			Swimminer, Baitfish Designed to imitate a wide variety of fresh water and saltwater bait fish. This fly has all of the key elements: dorsal stripe, lateral demarkation, gill filliments or blood, reflective eyes and a side to side wiggle that will drive hungry game fish to madness.
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06332-2/0	Unweighted Swimminer, Baitfish	2/0	3 for $10.95
06326-2/0	Weighted Swimminer, Baitfish	2/0	3 for $10.95

			Swimminer, Black Black is a favorite night fishing color. It is also a good choice when fishing turbid water. Bass in muddy sloughs and baby Tarpon in jungle rivers are prime candidates for black wiggly flies. Don't forget that big Kamloops and Bull Trout like big, wiggly flies too.
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06333-2/0	Unweighted Swimminer, Black	2/0	3 for $10.95
06327-2/0	Weighted Swimminer, Black	2/0	3 for $10.95

Swimminer, Chartreuse/White
			This is a color combination that is proven Bass, Snook and Dorado. All of these species have a reputation for finding cover when they can. The mono-loop weed guard helps keep you free from lily pads, mangroves and sargasso.
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06345-2/0	Unweighted Swimminer, Chartreuse/White	2/0	3 for $10.95
06343-2/0	Weighted Swimminer, Chartreuse/White	2/0	3 for $10.95

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Take all three classes and receive a 11% discount for a one-time-only introductory offer of $200 (pre-paid).
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SPEY-CL4	All three Spey Casting Classes - Introductory Spey Casting March 20, Intermediate Spey Casting March 27, Advanced Spey Casting April 3, Special Introductory Offer.	$200

Swimminer, Baitfish	Swimminer, Chartreuse/White
Swimminer, Black	Swimminer, White

			Swimminer, White White is good choice when night fishing, especially under a bright moon. White fishes at all depths, but is most noted for the belly flash that it gives off when fished close to the surface.
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06346-2/0	Unweighted Swimminer, White	2/0	3 for $10.95
06344-2/0	Weighted Swimminer, White	2/0	3 for $10.95

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