January Meeting - Striped Bass in Central California

Please join us on January 4th as fly fishing guide Dagur Gudmundsson gives an in-person presentation on fishing for striped bass in Central California waters. The meeting starts at 7pm, with social time starting at 6:30pm. Dagur's presentation will also be available via Zoom (see your email for the Zoom invitation).

Prior to the meeting, Dagur will discuss rigging and reading the surf waters. This discussion will start at 5:45pm and will not be available via Zoom.

As always, non-members are welcome to attend our club meetings.

Dagur Gudmundsson was born and raised on the wind-swept rock of Iceland, where he grew up chasing everything from arctic char and ice age brown trout to Atlantic cod and pollock. During his teenage years he moved to the Central Coast of California, where the fishing is quite different from the cold waters of Iceland. When he was 18, Dagur started guiding at the world-class salmon river West Rangá, which in addition to having some of the most prolific Atlantic salmon fishing in the world, also has huge native brown trout in its upper reaches.

In between spending his summers guiding in Iceland, Dagur attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, where he acquainted himself with the local fisheries through lots of trial and error. He recently started a fly fishing guide service in San Luis Obispo with a focus on the area’s overlooked fisheries when it comes to fly fishing, such as bass, carp, and surf perch. Dagur also ties and sells flies, is a regular contributor to California Fly Fisher magazine, and teaches clinics on carp and bass through the Central Coast Fly Fishing fly shop in Carmel. Dagur joins us this month to focus on striped bass, after his previous presentation to us on Iceland and fishing for carp.