THE
REEL THING COLLECTION
ARCHIVE OF ISSUES OF "The REEL THING" - By
Gordon Deval
This is a compilation of our club bulletins
dating back to their inception in 1988. Actually
we commenced writing these Reel Things shortly after the club began operations
in 1984, however the early editions were all typed on an ordinary typewriter,
then photocopied and mailed out to our members.
In 1988 my wife, Sheila, obtained our first desk-top computer, then five
years later we got our first lap-top, began using the internet and e.mail making
the effort a great deal easier.
Within another year or so, virtually all our
members also had e.mail access, so the bulletins were no longer being
slow-mailed out, but sent via e.mail. In
our earlier years the bulletin was sent out more or less periodically, but in
the last few years we have made every effort to produce them monthly. It was not always easy to have enough information to write
about that would be of interest to our members and often I would have to prod
them for their fishing results and so on in order to have something that folks
would enjoy reading.
It occurred to me recently that it would be
interesting to look back after the club’s fortunes, good and bad, over the
years by perusing all the back issues of The Reel Thing.
I discovered that there actually is a wealth of information on a wide
variety of subjects, not only fishing and casting that others would probably
enjoy as well, so we are making the attempt to compile and correlate the
bulletins in chronological order so anyone else wishing to review the club’s
history can peruse them at their leisure.
In
actuality, the bulletins have had our club logo (as seen above) in place since
we began producing them on the computer, but they and the parting greetings from
the author, yours truly, have been eliminated in this summary to make for a more
interesting read. There have also
been a variety of fonts and font sizes used over the years, but we will attempt
to edit the collection accordingly into a consistent format.
The
issues that we were able to re-create so far are displayed below. Select
the issue that you wish to read and click on the link for that month.
ENJOY!
