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NEWSLETTER #17 -
OCTOBER 2003
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Leland Fly Fishing Travel Newsletter – October ‘03
TOPICS IN THIS
ISSUE:
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San Francisco
Shop Day Thursday, Nov 6
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Dean River
Steelhead, ’04 Openings
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Alaska and
Kamchatka Float Trip Excitement
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Belize
Mothership Report and Calendar For ’04
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Rio Grande Sea
Run Brown Trout Openings
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Brazil Peacock
Bass Adventure Planned For Early ’04
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Christmas Island
March ‘04 Trip
This is the
seventeenth edition of our monthly newsletter with
updates on great fly fishing venues and insights for
our traveling fly fishers. We want to help you
match the right location with your fly fishing goals
and objectives and properly prepare you to fully
enjoy the experience. We’ve been to most locations
and pride ourselves on our ability to research new
sites. Whatever unbiased information on timing and
locations we can provide comes at the same cost to
you as booking direct – i.e., no extra cost.
SF
SHOP DAY – THURSDAY, NOV 6
I’m looking forward
meeting many of you next Thursday when we’ll have a
special fly fishing travel day in the Bush Street
shop. There will be three scheduled slide
presentations and lots of open time to discuss any
fly fishing adventures you’d like more details on.
At both 12:30 and 5:00, there will be a slide
presentation on “Fly Fishing Belize Via A Mothership.”
The other presentation, which will take place at
4:00, is titled “Fly Fishing Earth’s Pristine
Destinations” and is a short, fast paced visit to
many of the premier fly fishing locations in the
world – both fresh and salt.
I’ll be in the shop
from 10:30 am through the early evening. If you
have specific interests you’d like to discuss, I
encourage you to contact me to make an appointment.
A scheduled time will allow us to have some
uninterrupted time together.
DEAN RIVER ’04 – TWO SPOTS REMAIN
The calendar and
availability is now finalized for the ’04 season at
John Blackwell’s lower Dean River Lodge. Most of
our clients who visit the lower Dean are “hard-core
steelheaders” who return to this world class fishery
each summer leaving few opportunities for newcomers
to find space. For next season, there are two
openings for the prime week of July 30 – Aug 6
available. Price is $4,500 for ’04.
The combination week
dates for the split trip (Dean River Lodge and Moose
Lake fly out trout lodge) will be July 3 – 10,
’04. This adventure splits a week between the
lower Dean for the early stage of the steelhead run
and the fast action rainbow fishing from Moose Lake
Lodge (both operations owned and operated by John
Blackwell).
ALASKA AND KAMCHATKA FLOAT TRIPS
The following
abbreviated report is from Scott Hague about his
experiences with Ouzel Outfitters this summer
floating rivers in Alaska (full report can be
e-mailed by request). Ouzel is one of Alaska’s
foremost outfitters and also pioneered the Kamchatka
exploration in the early 90’s. We like their
approach of personally structuring float trips in
both Alaska and Kamchatka to meet the specific goals
and objectives of clients.
“The float trip in
Alaska was absolutely fantastic. The variety of
salmon and rainbow fishing was remarkable and each
day the river provided a wide variety of fishing
options – a 27” rainbow was one of my personal
highlights. The folks at Ouzel were great and our
guide, Branden, outstanding. I look forward to
going back in the future.”
If you were planning
an Alaska or Kamchatka adventure for next summer,
now is the time as most of the best lodges and
outfitters are filling their calendars.
BELIZE REPORT AND
’04 CALENDAR
Bob Cazort is one of
the “hard core” Belize mothership trip addicts. He
takes two or three trips a year and just completed a
trip aboard the Seaduction – the fishing results
below are his alone because on this trip he was a
single. Bob usually does not focus on permit – he’s
a “variety guy” and loves the different options of
the trip.
Jumped 20+ tarp,
released five to 35# - no big guys to the boat, but
some hooked and lost.
9 snook to 8#
15# cuda and several
small ones
snappers and
bonefish – several
45# blacktip shark
on a bonefish flat on a popper. Broke him off after
30 minutes – didn’t want to fool with landing it.
Biggest highlight –
didn’t see another fisherman the whole trip.
We have both boats
chartered for a shop trip hosted by Keith Westra
scheduled for August 27- Sept 3, ’04. Three spots
are still open on this trip. It remains one of the
best values in the world of saltwater fly fishing at
$2,400 per person for the week on the joint trip.
’04 OPENINGS:
Seaduction with
Captain/guide Charles Westby for parties of 1 or 2
(an asterisk * designates that both boats are
available that week for a joint charter for 5 or 6):
1/17 – 24*; 2/6 –
13; 3/10 – 17*; 5/4 – 11; 6/5 –12; 7/8- 15; 8/7 –
14*; 9/16 – 23*
Meca with
Captain/guide Martin McCord for parties of 3 or 4:
1/17 – 24*; 3/10 –
17*; 7/18 – 25; 8/7 – 14*; 9/16 – 23*
TWO OPENINGS ON THE RIO GRANDE FOR GIANT SEA RUN
BROWNS
Getting prime time
space on the Rio Grande River in Tierra Del Fuego to
fish the sea run browns this close to the season is
a challenge. I just got word that one of our
favorite lodges on the river had two spots open for
January 24 – 31, ’04.
AMAZON PEACOCK BASS TRIP PLANNED
Final plans are
being made for a trip to the Amazon and there is
still space available. Karl Kirbus, co-manager of
the San Francisco shop, is putting together a small
group of adventurers to visit Brazil in the early
part of ’04 in pursuit of the giant peacock bass and
other tropical species that swim in this rainforest
watershed. If you have any interest, give us a
call to discuss.
CHRISTMAS ISLAND BONEFISH ADVENTURE MARCH ’04
A group of Leland
folks will be heading to Christmas Island March 8 –
15. At least two of our managers from the San
Francisco shop will be making the trek with them.
Christmas Is was one of the first great bonefish
destinations and remains one of the world’s most
productive wade fisheries. Price is $2,756 pp from
Honolulu. If you’d like more info, drop us a note.
Either phone or drop
us an e-mail if you have questions or would like
more information about any of our destinations.
An enthusiastic
traveling fly fisherman,
Don Muelrath
Leland Fly Fishing
Adventures
888-347-4896
flyfish@napanet.net
www.flyfishingoutfitters.com
e-mail Josh Frazier
at
Josh@flyfishingoutfitters.com
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