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Mission: Conserve, Restore and educate through Fly Fishing

Vision: Empower Fly Fisherman to our Natural Resources for future generations and promote healthy and diverse fisheries that offer recreation and sustain ecological function.

Goal: Protect our Native Fisheries, create conservation as a recreation leader, improve credibility and relationships among the Committees, Councils, Clubs, members and provide action activities for members to participate in.

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Apr 15 2013

Seventh Annual Rush Creek Cleanup

Saturday, June 22nd, 2013
Rush Creek, Silver Lake Resort, June Lake Loop, CA

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Trash, from monofilament to old bait containers, will be picked up from Rush Creek, Silver Lake and down the canyon as far as Grant Lake by member club representatives of the Southwest Council Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) on Saturday, June 22nd. The Seventh Annual Rush Creek Cleanup is slated for 8 a.m.-noon, according to Joe Lemire, a member of the Streamborn Fly Fishing Club and SWC IFFF representative. Silver Lake Resort in the June Lake loop will provide a free barbeque lunch following the cleanup. Volunteers will pick up and dispose of trash along an approximately five-mile stretch of the eastern Sierra along the shoreline of Silver Lake and Rush Creek from the power plant above Silver Lake down the canyon to Grant Lake. “We’ve previously filled as many as 60 trash bags on our Rush Creek cleanup; this year we expect to haul out 30 to 40,” Lemire said.

Club volunteers are expected to carry out coolers, sun glasses, broken bottles, automobile hub caps, hundreds of feet of fishing line, hooks, lures and bobbers that are a death trap to wildlife. If enough volunteers show up this year, the cleanup can continue up the canyon and impact the environment as far as the Gull Lake area.
Anglers who will be in the area and want to volunteer should meet at the Silver Lake boat ramp at 8 a.m.; bring gloves, hat, sun screen, trash pick-up sticks, boots and waders if you have them. Trash bags will be provided by Silver Lake Resort.

For information, contact Lemire at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 909-609-1101.

Mar 10 2013

SWC-IFFF CONSERVATION

Debbie Sharpton, Conservation Director
(805) 338-8278; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

HELP OUR NATIVE FISH
Volunteers and funding are needed to sustain a Lahontan cutthroat trout (LCT) recovery project in the Western Lahontan Basin (Truckee, Carson and Walker River watersheds). With seed funding provided by Sierra Pacific Flyfishers, interns and volunteers will be on Silver Creek (headwater tributary of the West Walker River, Pickel Meadow area) late July to late September 2013 removing non-native predatory brook trout from a LCT recovery area.

THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FLY FISHING CLUBS ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO SAVE THE LAHONTAN CUTTHROAT TROUT

The Eyes of Conservation

by Debbie Sharpton
Conservation Director

There are many good laws on the books of our society – the Clean Water Act of 1972 is one of them. It’s hard to believe it is over 40 years old, and although the big polluters were the first targets, the hardest one for everyone to get their hands around is what is called “non-point source pollution”. This is the type that comes from many different points instead of one discharge pipe.

In California the State Water Board and its multiple regional water quality control boards are responsible, and under court order, to create and implement the regulations to meet the Clean Water Act objectives. Several regulations have been in place dealing with acceptable levels of pollutants in waters of the state, one being trash. The acceptable level of trash in the water is zero. That’s a pretty lofty goal, but how could anyone say that trash is acceptable at any other level? There was much resistance from the jurisdictional agencies but the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board passed the regulation some time ago. This means that agencies must do their part in cleaning up trash from the waters, if they don’t they stand to be in violation of the regulation and their permits.

Several years ago Erick Burres, Conservation Biologist and head of the State’s Clean Water Team, passed on some great information about how people can be part of the solution. Here is an excerpt form the IBM Research Lab’s internet site about one of the great things Erick is doing;

2012 Kern River Tournament

Under bluebird skies with the promise of lower flows than in previous years, eight teams and their monitors prepared to do battle on the 20 mile stretch of the Kern between the bridge in Kernville and the Golden Trout Resort. This year the beats included three sections below the bridge (by the Fly Shop) and extended further upstream to avoid slow sections of “frog” water. To help out anglers new to the river Guy Jeans of Kern River Fly Shop repeated his popular Friday clinic and gave advice on flies and rigging. The tournament was fished according to International rules prohibiting the use of split shot and indicators although contestants were allowed to use a three fly rig. The “hopper/dropper” with a WD40 was rumored to be the hot rig. In pre fishing many anglers had luck with dries and streamers. This year the teams were allowed to substitute monitors for anglers in the two hour afternoon session. The event was highlighted by a Poker Night to raise money for local conservation efforts and an awards dinner at the Oddfellows Hall in downtown Kernville.