Southern Sierra Fly Fishers Rendezvous
Saturday October 5th
Tournament 7:30am
BBQ 5pm
Auction 6pm
Music by Guy and Stoneflys 7pm
Everyone is welcome!
This is our annual fundraising club/membership drive major event of the year. Bring your family and/or significant 'other' and have fun. Come and join the festivities regardless of your fishing ability and whether or not you want to participate in the tournament!
TOURNAMENT ENTRY FEE: $25, dinner is included. A current membership is required. One year membership fee is $25 for an individual membership; $35 for family membership. Rendezvous and Membership applications will be emailed directly to current Club members.
Non-members may request applications via PM or email to CopperDropper (gfsilveiira@charter.net) or haramic (haramic@aol.com). The maximum number of participants is 79 and we expect to fill all 79 spots.
DINNER AND FESTIVITIES ONLY: $10 FEE, $15 non-member for those who aren't able to participate in the Tourney, but want to attend the dinner, festivities and to support the SSFFC. Membership is not a requirement for this portion of the event. We have many items for the raffle from a Guide Trip from Kern River Fly Shop to books, hats, flies, discount coupons for Fly Fishing products and MORE! We will also hold a silent auction.
Guy's Band the Stoneflys plays Saturday evening 7pm-ish. Bring those dancing shoes for some high energy fun!
Non Tournament Rules:
Check in: 7:30 to 8:30 AM Announcements: 8:30 AM Start fishing a t 8:45 AM until 2:00 PM Sharp Return check in: 2:00 to 2:30 PM Casting Contest, raffle ticket sales and social: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Dinner, entertainment and awards: 5:00 PM - ? Areas to be fished are from the Johnsondale Bridge to the bridge in Kernville, this area maybe expanded based upon the number of participants. Fly Fishing equipment and barbless hooks only, Catch and Release, Maximum three flies at one time No flotation devices (No rafts, boats, tubes, bath tubs, etc.) Return with a bag of trash that you picked up from your location (we will supply the bags). All fishing will be done in pairs to verify catch (Please find a participating partner, if you can't, the tourney committee will do its best to assign a partner.) 10 inch minimum for qualifying fish, round down to the nearest inch.
*Trophy, prizes for biggest trout, most accumulated inches of trout, biggest Pike Minnow, biggest Sucker. *We will also have a kids division. *Prizes for best and worst dressed participant. (You have to wear it all day until you return @ check in) *Prize for most trash collected!
Location:
Frandy Campground, across the street from the Kern River Fly Shop. 11252 Kernville Rd. Kernville, CA 93238 http://www.frandy.net/
Campground reservations can be made by calling: (888) 372-6399 and mention you're with Southern Sierra Fly Fishers Club. We have reserved the camp spots around Circle Drive, which is located on the upper right hand corner of the following campground map:
http://www.frandy.net/facilities-map.asp Frandy hsa RV spots with full hookups. If you want to rent a RV, our Club member Allen Rose with Kern River Vacation Trailers has them: http://kernrivervacationtrailers.com/ They are giving us the off-season rates: http://www.frandy.net/rates.asp The off season rates are at the bottom of the page. My understanding is 6 persons per campsite.
The Club has already reserved the following spots for entertainment, BBQ, raffles and awards: 31, 32 & 33.
If anyone is staying just Friday night, please email me, haramic@aol.com or call (760)-913-SSFF (760)-913-7733
Register online for Tournament: http://ssffclub.org/rendezvous/
