THE
REEL THING February
1997
I
just want to say here that all the new members who joined the club in the past
six months have displayed an eagerness to learn whatever they can from the
Scarborough Fly and Bait Casting Association - as well as being willing to
participate and assist wherever they can.
These are the kind of folks that we are always hoping to have aboard
and at this place in time I can honestly state that we have in abundance in
the club. It’s an exciting time
for the S.F..& B.C.A.! Now if
we can only get some of our missing members out on Wednesday evenings we will
be really sitting pretty.
Sheila
and I were fortunate enough to have been invited by Ashok Kalle to accompany
him on a trip to fly fish down in the mangrove islands on the Gulf of Mexico,
close to my son’s home in Tampa. It
was a super little holiday with the fish cooperating quite nicely and some 7
or 8 different species hitting the flies that we tied during the flight on the
way down. Ashok certainly proved
that he had learned to use the double haul effectively when he encountered
little difficulty with the strong Gulf winds.
Len
Connelly’s first effort at bamboo rod building has proven to be a worthwhile
endeavour and with the cane cut and glued, he simply has to build the handle,
wrap on the guides and varnish it. Nice
work, Len. Mike Crilly is only a
few steps behind Len and both should have their rods completed shortly.
Several others, including Ashok, Paul Kennedy also have new sticks
underway. Kirk apel and Frank Di
Norcia, two of the new guys, are improving rapidly and say they can’t wait
to get outside to try out their new-found skills.
Kyle,
Graham, Mike and the rest of our kid crew have progressed nicely with both
their fly tying and their casting
making great strides. I can state
here quite emphatically that if we can keep these lads with us for a few years
that they will be collecting medals and trophies in abundance. Hopefully several of us will be making an overnighter skidoo
and ice fishing trip down to the Land O’ Lakes this weekend to test the
brookies in a couple of lakes down that way.
We
will be booking the cottage at Windermere again this year for our annual
ice-out weekend in Haliburton. The
tentative dates for this one are either the 3rd of 4th weekend in April.
We will make the booking in early March and must have confirmation and
deposits in by then if you wish to enjoy this weekend.
We will be fishing in A/B Lake and in case you aren’t familiar with
this lake, here are a few facts about it.
A/B contains only Brook Trout and some years they can be rather
tight-lipped, however we have caught as many as 30 or 40 14 to 22” specks
there on a couple of our club trips. Most
are caught on flies, but Sheila slays them with the G.D. Crocodile!
The lake is well stocked and this should be one of the more memorable
trips as far as production. Regardless,
this trip is a fly fishing and casting learning experience, a lot of fun (we
pile into a giant hot-tub at the end of each day) great shore-dinner and
cottage meals. The cost, this
year, is $125.00 per person and includes cottage, meals and shore-dinner.
Unfortunately, we can accommodate only eight people, so the first 6
committed to joining Sheila and me will be the lucky ones.
Our
page is now on the (web) Internet, even though it is still under construction,
with Len and Ashok assuming the responsibility for its design, and we have
received a number of inquiries already about the club.
The site can be found under WWW.Pathway.casting/~com
Our E.Mail address is Coachman@Pathcom.com
Many
thanks to the both of them.
I
have an Evinrude 5hp outboard motor for sale at $495.00 and a 12’
Harbercraft aluminum car-top boat for $595.00, if anybody is interested in a
nice little fishing combination.
I
have been informed that there will be no casting at the Sportsmans’ Show
this year because of rebuilding, but May and June will be bringing the trout
openings as well as several of the casting tournaments that we normally
participate in - including our own Scarborough Casting Championships (Novice and Expert). This
is the time of year when you should be putting the finishing edge on your
technique with both the spinning and fly rods, so trot out your equipment,
bring it to the gym and let’s see how you make out. The club’s new fly rods are there for anybody to use and we
will be upgrading some of the other equipment soon as well.
Rick
Matusiak, expert and champion angler, is back in circulation and although he
is quite busy doing filming and fishing assignments for Bob Izumi, we expect
to see him active in our circle once again, pretty soon. If you haven’t seen Rick’s newest fishing video
give me a call and I’ll lend it to you.
It will knock your eyes out!
I
am putting together this Reel Thing in Wellesley Hospital while I am waiting
for Sheila to undergo a battery of heavy testing including a cat scan.
I hope that everything is okay although we’re a little worried as she
has had an on-going severe headaches for several days
now.
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