THE
REEL THING December1996
Sheila and I would like to take this opportunity
to wish all our members, along with their family and friends a super Christmas
and a wonderful New Year!
The competition for this year’s honours as club
casting champion was keen and right down to the last toss of Paul Kennedy’s
spinning rod. He was neck and
neck with both Fred Bigioni and Leon Schwartz until then although having cast
a remarkable score of ‘98’ in dry fly had already put him in the
winner’s circle in the fly casting segment.
Fred took the combined championship all round trophy, though, with a
superior round in the plug casting using his bait casting outfit, to go with
his 95 in fly . Fred proved that
his winning the trophy last year was no fluke by repeating again this year
with a fine combined score for the two events of ‘191’ out of 200.
The club congratulates Fred Bigioni!
Paul’s total was 189, just beating Leon’s fine 186.
Ashok Kalle finished third in the dry fly with an
excellent round of 92 in his first ever competition while Paul’s results
were equally amazing considering his new job hours didn’t allow him a single
evening’s practice prior to the tournament and all fall.
Our youngest fly caster, Kyle Sullivan gave it his best shot and took
home several awards in the Junior section.
In case you’re wondering, Sheila, accepting my
suggestion, deferred to the newer club casters and didn’t compete in this
one. We would like to thank Leon
and Len for looking after things on the evening that Sheila and I had to
attend City Hall for the Bi-Centennial Awards Ceremonies.
It was pretty exciting for us to have been selected and included in
this list of Scarborough’s 200 most WHATEVER over the past two hundred
years!
Obviously our club trout opening ice fishing trip
will be postponed a week or so. No Ice! If
you are planning on going on this one please call me as soon as possible and
I’ll give you the details.
Next Wednesday, the club will be hosting our
first open fly casting seminar and fly tying clinic.
Hopefully we will have a fine turnout of both guests and members to
assist with the instruction. We
have added new vices and a couple of fly rods to our arsenal for the occasion.
This will be our last night at the school until January 89th, 1997.
It also signifies the end of our calendar year dues structure.
For those of you who are on-line the club, with
the assistance of Ashook Kalle, the President of Pathway Communications, now
has its own Web Page and E. Mail handle.
You can reach us at coachman@pathcom.com with your letters and
questions.
Let’s
hope that those members who for one reason or another were unable to take
advantage of the fun, companionship and expertise of their missed evenings at
the club this fall will make a concerted effort to get out to the school with
the rest of us in the New Year, at least, occasionally.
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