gpff battle creek outing

GPFF Battle Creek Outing! August 28-30

Luck and Covid-19 willing, Grizzly Peak Fly Fishers Club will have an outing to the South Fork of Battle Creek on August 2830. This is a remarkable trip and one that every member should attend at least once. Why?

1. We will have access to two miles of private water. I know that California is filled with scenic rivers, but it’s also filled with fishers, so it can be difficult to find a place to enjoy the serenity of nature and to actually catch fish. Most of the South Fork of Battle Creek is bordered by private land, inaccessible to the public, so you can find a pool all to yourself just teeming with trout who haven’t yet learned that a prince nymph isn’t food. 2. For a small river the trout can get pretty big.

Certainly, your fly can be taken by trout so small that they fly at you when you set your hook, but there are also fish as large as 18”, like the one in the photo below, caught on

May 23 by one of your hosts, Elaina Genser, on a Dragontail Tenkara rod with a Chubby

Chernobyl fly. 3. This outing is the Club’s only fundraiser.

Sure it costs $200 to go, but all of that money goes to the Club and funds its expenses, like speakers at our monthly meetings and other outings, if we get to resume them. 4. Josh & Elaina’s place is entirely off the grid: no internet and no cell phone service. (It’s not difficult to connect cell phone service in an emergency.) It’s astonishingly refreshing to be disconnected for a few days. 5. The hospitality and comradery are fantastic!

The cabin has running water, a flush toilet and a hot shower. The food is excellent and, as always when Josh in around, there is a variety of fine whiskies. There is also much to do besides fishing, including target and trap shooting, hiking, and nothing, at all.

So, please sign up on the web site, and we hope to see you in person in August.