SOFF Dinner Meeting featuring Craig Schuhmann

Many of our club members frequent the area of the Klamath Basin for fishing the rivers and lakes in that area. The potential for hooking and landing double digit rainbows is excellent. What is needed is familiarity of the area, the flies to use and the tactics needed for the angler to be successful. If you can benefit from a little extra coaching, then you’re in luck as our February Dinner Speaker, Craig Schuhmann, is a guide who specializes in fishing the basin and will share his expertise at our dinner meeting.

Schuhmann’ s presentation will include such waters as Agency and Klamath Lakes and small Lake Tributaries, the Lower and upper Williamson, the Wood River, the Keno and Clearwater reaches of the Klamath River, and other local small streams.  In his presentation, he will touch on all of these waters, looking at points to consider when fishing each water, locations to fish, hatches, flies, tactics and gear.  His program will be instructive, not just a lot of pictures with clients and their fish.  His intent is to make people aware of what is available, when it is available, what you need to take advantage of each water, and how to more fully avail yourself of the Klamath Basin possibilities. This presentation portents to be a valuable learning experience and one not to be missed.

Reservations for the February dinner meeting are due by Noon, Monday, February 13th. Dinner reservations can be made by going to the club’s website www.soff.org and clicking on the dinner reservations button or if you’d rather call in your dinner reservation, you can do so by calling the club’s answering machine at 541 955-4718 and leaving your information.

Craig Schuhmann moved to Oregon with his family in 1980. This move was partly to accommodate his father’s passion for steelhead fishing on the rivers of Oregon and Washington. When Craig was 10 he was initiated into his own passion for fly fishing with his father on the Owens River in California and again on the steelhead rivers in the Columbia Basin. He has managed to keep his fly rod working ever since. Taking a particular interest in trout, he has spent numerous seasons living and fishing in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Craig brings to play his interest in the totality of the sport through writing, fly tying, entomology, guiding, education, and conservation. Under his business “Guided Waters Fly Fishing” Craig spends all of his time guiding on the Williamson and Wood rivers in Southern Oregon.

Craig began a career in writing in 2006 by accepting a contract to write a book for Moon Outdoors about Fishing in Oregon (see Books and Articles links). In 2015, he was appointed editor of Flyfishing & Tying Journal (Frank Amato Publications).

Craig holds a Masters of Arts in Theology from the University of Portland, obtained in 1996, and is the Director of Operations for Integral Youth Services in Klamath Falls.