One Surf Fly Huntington Beach Results

Well since the One Surf Fly event ended my day job caught up to me.  With this week being the final week of school; things have gotten really busy.  Now that I have a gap in time, I can quickly post up the results.

Most Fish Caught:
Vaughn Podmore 6 Barred Surf Perch

Anglers who caught 3 Fish :

Rich Kanner (2 Barred Surf Perch 1 Corbina)

Jim Troyer (3 Barred Surf Perch)
Kevin Green (2 Barred Surf Perch and 1 Walleye Surf Perch)

Anglers who caught 2 Barred Surf Perch:

Joe Penyak

Joe Buckhalter

Anglers who caught 1 Barred Surf Perch or walleye Surf Perch:

Adam Perez - Walleye Surf Perch

Rob Baldwin

Craig Crosby

Chris Wildman

Matt Wilson

Ken Kaufmann

Gary Lumsden

Dave Valdez

Norm Orida

Milford Dahl

Dave Watchford

Mike Denham

Jeff Peterson 

Biggest Fish Caught:

Rich Kanner (19.5" Corbina) 

Biggest Fish Runner Ups:

Rich Kanner (9" Barred Surf Perch)

Kevin Green (8.65" Barred Surf Perch)

Adam Perez (8.65" Walleye Surf Perch) 

Matt Wilson (8.5" Barred Surf Perch)

Jim Troyer (7.5" Barred Surf Perch)

Dave Watchford (7"Barred Surf Perch)

First Fish Caught:

 Vaughn Podmore (7:30 am Barred Surf Perch)

First Fish Caught Runner Up: 

Craig Crosby (7:36 am Barred Surf Perch) 

 

A Recap of the One Surf Fly Huntington Beach and A Big Thank You

Well boys it was crazy to see that many fly fishermen in the surf.  I swore I was on the Owens on opening day.  The turn out was incredible.  It was way bigger than what Al and I could have imagined.  Actually I want to thank Kristina for shooting all of the pictures, since Jorge was fishing the event.  She was a trooper getting on her waders, and getting in with the anglers to get the shot.  She took some great shots too.  We had a few guys still getting their sea legs, but there are a few who could be considered the wet seal of the event.  I think everyone made a new friend as I did for sure.  It as also great to see friends that we do not get to see too often.  That is the best thing about these things is the fellowship and brotherhood that is built (dorky and sappy yes, but true ;)).  Now onto the show...

I would like to give a big thank you to the spotters who helped out.  Without them this would have been near impossible to run.  The spotters did a great job of watching our for joggers and keeping score.  It was great that everyone was able to keep space between each other too.  That is some great sportsmanship.  Lets give a big applause to John Fleisher, Mike Centofani, Matt Warnock, Michelle, and Conway Bowman, Paul Cronin, Steve Peiper, Mike Thompson, Steve Heibert, Bill Smice, Ken F. and the tall guy who I can not remember your name (little did you know you would get recruited. You thought you were just going to take it all in). 

Our donors also stepped up big with the goods for the raffle to help raise money for the TU Southern Chapter's steelhead recovery efforts on the San Mateo Creek in San Clemente.  This is something that is local that we can all take part in.  To imagine a sustainable steelhead run in the OC in the future is still mind boggling.  The raffle was able to generate $1295 for the recovery efforts.  As I mentioned at the raffle, lets all give a big thank you to the manufactures and tiers when you see them at the fly fishing shows for giving such generous donations.  I would like to again personally thank: Abel Reels, Patagonia, Fin Sport, Hareline, Gamakatsu, William Joseph, Drake Fly Fishing Film Tour, WetFly.net, Ken Hanley Pacific Extreme, John William Artist, Outdoor Specialties, Orvis Pasadena, Orvis  Fly Lines, Fishermen’s Spot, Dennis Harper of Harper Custom Rods, Outcast, FlyFishingEuphoria.com.  Also I would like to thank the fly tiers for giving time to tie such beautiful flies that others may use to great effect: Jay Murikoshi, Dave Valdez, Shane Chung, Andy Koczan, Mike Centofani, Matt Warnock, Paul Cronin, Al Quatrocchi , Gary Bulla.

As a recap of the results; Vaughn Podmore won two categories: first fish caught and most fish caught.  The first fish caught was at 7:30 am ( a barred surf perch ) with Craig Crosby following close behind with his caught at 7:36am (a barred surf perch). Vaughn also caught 6 barred surf perch for the most fish.  Those fish were caught on a orange and tan checker fly pattern submitted by Daniel Roberts.  Rich Kanner won the largest fish caught with a 19.5 corbina, caught on a rootbeer and orange surf worm submitted by Kim Zetterburg ( fly in the picture posted by Al ).  The next biggest fish was a 9" barred surf perch also caught by Rich Kanner.  Since the fly that won the most fish and first fish were the same, a runner up was chosen for the most fish fly.  Even at this point we needed another tie breaker to determine the runner up fly.  There were two other anglers who also caught 3 surf perch as well, with Kevin Green and Jim Troyer topping out the list.  Kevin beat out Jim' s 7.5" barred surf perch with a 8.5" barred surf perch.  The fly fished with by Kevin Green was an orange surf clouser fly ( you can get this fly from (www.fishingeuphoria.com) submitted by Ed Rowlett.  

In total we had 62 anglers signed up, with 57 signed in the morning of the 5th to fish.  We pulled 2 anglers to help with the spotting (once again thanks Bill S. and Steve P. ).   A total of 26 clousers, 7 surf rats, 5 surf worms, 4 shrimp pattens, 4 crab patterns, 3 checker surf flies, 2 razzlers, 2 croacker candies and 5 individual patterns were submitted.

We had 27 barred surf perch caught, 2 walleye surf perch caught and 1 corbina caught.  12 anglers were able to catch one barred surf perch, and 1 angler caught a walleye surf perch. 4 anglers were able to catch 2 barred surf perch and 1 angler caught 6 barred surf perch.  Lastly one angler was able to catch the lone corbina.  Two baby corbinas were snagged during the event.

This is the baby corbina that took a ride of its life.  The barb was wrapped around the belly of the fish behind the pectoral fins.  The barb was just barely stuck to the skin.  Below are some action shots of a very laid up Huntingon Beach.

Cheers

Shane

Google Aerial Map of the One Surf Fly Location

The maps above will give you guys an idea of where everything is.  The green box is the free parking area on Bushard and Brookhurst.  Also you can park along Brookhurst from the Bushard intersection to Hamilton.  The shopping center owners are allowing us to use their lot too.  They just ask that you guys park in the outer spots, so their customers can park at the store front spots.  The other free parking in the area is the residential area just behind the strip mall.  the residential area on the other side of the strip mall on Bushard requires a permit (parking tickets here).  Lastly not on the map is the free parking along Sea Shore drive.  This is accessable by entering from PCH via Orange street (1st light south of the PCH / Santa Ana River bridge).

Enter the State Beach at the main enterence on Magnolia and PCH.  After the pay booth/ranger station head south (towards Newport Beach) through the first large lot.  Go around the Brookhurst entrance (closed during the winter time) road into the second large lot.  Park by the bathrooms at the southern end of the 2nd large parking lot marked in the maps by the orange box.

Just a reminder that those who check in first get to pull first from the bag of flies.  We will draw flies no later that 6:45am.  After you have taken your one surf fly you may proceed to the beach to stage for the start.  You can drive to any location along the One Surf Fly tournament beach boundries to your staging point prior to the start.  The southern boundries for the One surf Fly will be the Huntington State Beach side of the Santa Ana River (yes you may fish the Santa Ana River inlet.  You just can not go past the PCH bridge or to the Newport Beach side of the river.).  The Northern boundries is set at lifeguard station #6 (located half way between Magnolia and Brookhurst). 

More stuff for the raffle just keep rollin in.

Jamie and Kristen Lyle of Outdoor Specialties just sent us a box full of Rio fly lines and tippets plus a Sage and a Reddington ball cap. Along with the Sage hat were two Sage humidors, The fly lines just keep coming. Hutch Hutchinson at Orvis sent us two floating lines, with the WF 7 F line being an excellent line for sight casting to those stupid corbinas in the flats on the beaches. Also from Orvis it sounds like we will be getting a pair of sun glasses from the Orvis Pasadena Corporate Store. For the film buff we got sets of free tickets coming our way for the Drake Magazine Fly Fishing Film Tour. They will have 2 sets of 3 tickets waiting for you at will call. Maybe I can talk Drake into throwing in popcorn, candy and drinks. Now that would be cool. Lastly in chatting with Jeremy S. from Outcast he agreed to donate the demo Fat Cat they had on display at the Bob Marriott's Fly Fair. That was truly too cool, as it was to catch up with Jeremy. Last minute items are a $100 gift certificate from Bob Marriott's fly shop, and 2 doz. flies from Fly Fishing Euphoria (http://www.flyfishingeuphoria.com).Well Below is the full list of Donors and what we got or are getting from them: new stuff in red.


Raffle Donations

Abel Reels – Super 7 Deep Blue
Patagonia – wadders and wadding boots combo.
Fin Sport – 2 Fly Wallets
Hareline – Fly Tying Materials 5 Grab Bags each with a neck and saddle.
Gamakatsu – Limited edition knife and hat
William Joseph - Amp mag chest pack, Classic old school satchel bag, 3 50% off coupons, hats and 2 T-shirts
John Williams - Original water color
Drake Magazine Fly Fishing Film Tour - 3 sets of 2 movie tickets, 3 Film Tour custom Buff head gear, 3 William Joseph Hats
Wet Fly – 2 sets of 60 flies
Ken Hanley – DVD Saltwater Salmon on Fly and Book Fly Fishing the Pacific Inshore

Outdoor Specialties - 1 Redington Hat, 1 Sage Hat,1 Rio Hat

1 Rio Outbound WF8I/S3, 1 Rio Outbound T8, 1

1 Rio Grand WF6F line, 1 Selective Trout WF5F line

2 Sage Humidors

4 Rio Surf Leaders 5ft 12#, 2 Rio Adhesive Rod Ruler,

2 Rio 16# tippet 30 yards

3 Rio Extreme Tippet 25# - 20 yds

Orvis Pasadena Sun Glasses

Orvis Fly Lines WF 9 F, WF 7 F

Fishermen's Spot – 2 $50 Gift Certificates
Dennis Harper of Harper Custom Rods – 5 Rivers 10’ 7wt. 4pc. Fly rod.

Outcast Fish Cat Float Tube (Marriott’s show demo tube)
Fly Fishing Euphoria - 2 doz. surf flies

Jay Murikoshi – 21 Surf Flies  And a Spirit River Sectional Fly Box
Dave Valdez – 1 doz. bonefish Flies
Shane Chung – Flies 1 doz. spotted bay bass flies.
Andy Koczan - 26 surf Flies and an Orvis Sectional Fly BoxFlies
Mike Centofani – Flies 1 doz. Surf flies
Matt Warnock – 1 doz. Flies
Paul Cornin – Flies 1 doz. Surf Merkins
Al Quatrocchi – 18 Surf Flies
Gary Bulla – 1 Baker'sdoz. Surf flies.

Short hallies on the bite.

Well I went out to the One Surf Fly location to see the beach conditions after some larger swells / waves came through the week before. Some holes are gone, but new troughs and holes have been made in their place. Actually two of the smaller hole merged into a bigger one. The conditions were just too fishy for me to explore the rest of the beach. I raced back to the car to wader up. The water conditions was a bit churned, and in some spots the along shore current was moving at autobahn speed. Once you found the tail out there were short flatties to be found. The little hallies were not line shy at all. I basically was fishing with the same rod I had used at Catalina at the beginning of the month. It was just the first rod I grabbed out of my trunk, oh well. I was fishing an Orvis Helios 10wt with a 400g integrated line, and a 7' 15# leader. The fly I was using was a jig hook surf whistler from Gary Bulla. I got some short strikes through the various holes. I lost the bigger hallie at my feet. Trout sets are badddddd! The second hallie now has a longer lower lip. When the hallie hit I ripped some lip for sure. This one was not coming unbuttoned like the first one. We the second hallie was a shadow of the first fish. It was a short hallie about 16" / 17". That was when I realized I was supposed to be at my mom's house by then to pick up my kid. I knew there was more to my day than scouting the beach. I left the fish biting with the beach only half scouted and at least a half hour late picking up my kid.

Directions to the One Surf Fly Beach Classic at Huntington State Beach

Directions to the One Surf Fly Beach Classic Check in Location.

Coming north from the south (Southern OC and San Diego County)

1. North 5 to North 405.
2. Exit Euclid. Turn right from off ramp onto Euclid St. Euclid changes names after going under the 405 to  Ellis St. Proceed down Ellis until Brookhurst.
3. Left turn at Brookhurst. Proceed down Brookhurst to PCH.
4. Right turn at PCH. Proceed down PCH until Magnolia.
5. Left turn at Magnolia into the Huntington State Beach main entrance.
6. Proceed south (the direction you are facing as you pay your entrance fee.) through the first large parking lot.
7. Go around the Brookhurst entrance and proceed to the end of the next parking lot. The One Surf Fly check in will be at the end of the parking lot by the bathrooms.

Coming south from the north (LA County and Riverside County)
1. South on the 405
2. Exit at Magnolia. Proceed down Magnolia to the Huntington State Beach main entrance
3. Proceed south (the direction you are facing as you pay your entrance fee.) through the first large parking lot.
4. Go around the Brookhurst entrance and proceed to the end of the next parking lot. The One Surf Fly check in will be at the end of the parking lot by the bathrooms.

Google Maps link to Sat photo of the parking lot. We will be at the bathrooms next to the last lot (cement lot)
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=33.634756,-117.964164&spn=0.005351,0.01369&t=h&z=17

There are free parking on Brookhurst Street from Adams to Bushard (this is .5 miles from the Brookhurst entrance.). You can also park in the small strip mall without hassle until 10:30. We got the okay from the business. If the Pizza guy is open pop in get a slice and say thanks. Also you can park on the residential streets behind the strip mall on Bushard. We will be running shuttle cars from the check in spot to the free parking areas. The last run will be 6:30. Rules and boundaries will be addressed at 6:45am with the beach start at 7:00 am.

30" Hallibut caught at Huntington Beach.

Well with the big northwest swell that hit last weekend, you would figure fishing would be slow.  water temps droped and the water got a bit churned up.  The good news is that there are lots of fishing hole all along the Huntington coastline.  There are reports of lot of credit card to palm size surf perch in the water.  Some yellowfin croackers in the chuncky size are being caught by some of the fly regulars that hit Huntington State Beach.  Before the storm Vaughn P. was able to get a three spotfin crockers at Huntington State Beach.  The biggest catch of the week was Vaughn's 30" halibut caught on the tried and true olive over white clouser minnow.

More Goodies For The Raffle

More raffle updates.  I have been notified that Patagonia is donating a combo set of wadders and wadding boots. The wadders and boot pictured below are just an example of the patagonia products.  The new wadders and boots will not be available to the shops until January. The winner of this prize will be measured at Marriott's for a sizing that will then be sent to Patagonia.  Also Denis Harper of Harper Custom Rod sent over some pictures of the custome rod for the raffle as well.  The raffle is shaping up nicely with more suprises to come.

Abel Super 7 Donated to the Fundraiser Raffle

I just got an email letting me know that Abel has donated a Super 7 in deep blue (http://www.ablereels.com/pages/finishes_new.htm) for the raffle. Rod Maker Denis Harper is making a custom 5 Rivers Signature V 10' 7wt 3pc. fly rod for the raffle (http://www.harperflyrods.com/). Also we got a bag coming from William Joseph (http://www.williamjoseph.net/ ), 2 dozen flies (sea habitat, and rabbit strip divers) from Wetfly.net (http://wetfly.net/), and a limited edition knife and hat from Gamakatsu ( http://www.gamakatsu.com/ ). Hareline ( http://www.hareline.com/ ) sent us a bunch of tying materials to make 5 grab bags which will include a neck or saddle or both. Fin sport sent us a couple of fly wallets in the larger size (12" x 6"). We also go a signed first edition Fly Fishing The Pacific Inshore and the DVD Saltwater Salmon On The Fly done by Ken Hanley (http://www.pacificextremes.com/ ). Plus gift certificates from The Fisherman's Spot (http://fsflyfishing.com/). Lastly we have custom flies tied by local salty fly guys. I just got done using some flies I won at the first One Surf Fly Classic catching a boat load of bonito and super macs. We got other stuff on its way to us, so goodies in the mail.

PacX
Pacific Extreme

The First One Surf Fly Beach Classic at Dockweiller Beach

This is a shot of the post registration and fly draw at the very first One Surf Fly Beach Classic. Al Q. is going over the rules of the tournament with the participants. We had 29 anglers at Dockweiller Beach, varying in experience from one month old beginners to seasoned anglers. Our recipient of the fundraiser was Heal The Bay. We were able to raise $985 dollars in raffle ticket sales, and The Fly Fisherman Spot rounded out the total donations to $1000. Dockweiller Beach is a unique beach in the sense that we had jet liners flying over our heads every minute to two minute intervals. All conversations paused as the jets took off over this beach at LAX. There was a fog bank that clung to the sand dunes just at the end of the runway, which made for a chilling picture whenever a jet burst out of the fog over our heads, blasting us with the roar of jets. The conditions of the surf was not too bad at all. It was a 1 to 2 foot chop with no shape whatsoever for the shore pounders. There were lots of wash, but the long shore current was weak. The fish were biting as Tim Postel caught the first fish in less than 5 minutes after the start of the competition. Dave Watchford caught the most fish as well as the biggest fish; a sub-legal halibut. Nick Vargas got a special prize for donating the fly that caught the most fish. This was really neat since Nick had just started to fly fish the surf that year. We had halibut caught along with lots of barred surf perch, and some yellow fin croakers.

Young anglers and old fishing together. We did measure the young one to make sure he was of legal size

No waders required in Southern California's cool comfortable surf.

The big little guy that took big fish honors. A California Halibut caught by Dave Watchford. Michelle doing her measuring duties.

One Surf Fly On Front Page Of North American Fly Fishing Forum

My Friend Paul Sharman is involved with the web development of the North American Fly Fishing Forum from the UK. HE was kind enough to put us on the front page news events. Guys go check it out. It looks like a really nice forum that will get you globally connected. I do hope that they ( Fish and Fly UK ) will be able to publish something like the Fish and Fly USA publication. That was a beautiful layout with some great stories.

http://www.theflyfishingforum.com/news/one_surf_fly.html

One Surf Fly Beach Classic Comes to Surf Town USA

We are putting on a friendly fly fishing in the surf tournament that is free. We will have a raffle at Bob Marriott’s fly shop afterward to raise money for the Southern Chapter of Trout Unlimited for the steelhead recovery of the Orange county river (creek) drainages. 100% of the raffle money will go to TU for the steelhead recovery.

Check in is at 6:00 am to 6:50 am. Fishing starts from 7:00 am to 9:30 am. There will be three categories to win a trophy: 1) first fish, 2) largest fish, 3) most fish. The bonus prize will be for the winning fly will also win a prize. The raffle will be $5 for a ticket or five tickets for $20. All of the prizes are being donated by fly fishing tackle manufactures, custom fly tiers, and guides and fly shops from the LA and Orange County area.

The concept of a one fly tournament is that the entrant will only have one fly to fish the tournament with. Once that fly is lost they are done for the remainder of the tournament. In our one fly tournament each entrant will provide one surf fly when they register. All flies will be place in a blacked out bag. Once everyone is registered the flies will be drawn randomly from the bag by the entrant in the order of registration. That will be the only fly (to be casted with only a fly rod) the entrant can use. There are no other terminal tackle restrictions.

The One Fly Surf Tournament will support our local Trout Unlimited Chapter (South Coast Chapter Trout Unlimited or SCCTU http://www.southcoasttu.org/ ). SCCTU has been heavily involved with the restoration of San Mateo Creek the empties into the ocean at the famous rail road trestles bridge in San Clemete. There is work on riparian habitat restoration, erosion control and the biggest project is to get fish ladders built. New interpretation signs have been installed with the help of eagle scouts giving the history, steelhead biological information and the local riparian environment.

These are the T-shirts for the event. The only difference will be the color of the shirts. For the Huntington Beach Classic the shirt color will be lime green. All pre-orders must be in by Nov. 4th 2009. The cost of the shirts are $20 and $22 for XXL or XXXL . You can email me with your orders at sschung@hotmail.com.