THE
REEL THING January
2002
I
am a little tardy in getting the club bulletin out this month as there is not
a lot to report and I’m trying to get used to a new computer, again.
I bought a Hewlett Packard machine in October, didn’t like it and
turned it in on a Toshiba, a newer version of my old lap-top.
It’s taking me a little time to get used to it.
We would like to welcome Brian Shannon, our newest member who along
with Scott Owen brings us increased activity in our shop, tying flies and a
desire to improve on his casting ability.
Brian has fished (successfully) for trout in some of the more exotic
locales in Canada, including, God’s River, Great Bear Lake, Tree River,
Algonquin Park and so on. We
expect that it won’t be long before Brian is challenging
for supremacy amongst all our angling experts in the club.
Hans Gulde is continuing to work on his fly tying skills and is now
turning out excellent material for his spring assault on the streams and
rivers.
The
fantastic fishing we were getting in November continued right into December
and we fished in Haliburton almost up to Christmas – from
our boats – not skidoos – thanks to the surprisingly docile
temperatures. It continued up to our last venture when Ray Cockburn and I
had another go at the rainbows, Jeeping way back into Beanpole Lake then
finding it frozen, heading for Limit Lake, only to see it also frozen.
Nevertheless on the way home we found little Sludge Lake free of ice
and gave it a boo for an hour or so and didn’t keep a single trout.
The last trip before the holidays was a half-day jaunt to the Beaver
River for steelhead with Jaydee, Jim Davidson.
I had a terrific tussle with a giant silver bow, fresh-run from the
lake. It fought so hard that
after about twenty minutes or so it was ‘released’!
Several days later I managed to temporarily grab a grouper by the tail,
but the ten-pounder almost pulled my arm out of its socket………no that was
not in the Beaver River, but on a reef in the Pacific out from Panama’s
Contadora Island.
After a week of soaking up the sun there, we were back in
‘Ontariario’ testing our luck at A-B Lake along with Sharon, Jaydee and
Jim Lloyd. With the barometer at rock bottom we fished through an all
day drizzle, but the brookies had lockjaw.
Oh well, next Saturday we will skidoo in to Beanpole and see if the
bows there are as cooperative as they were all fall.
There are now at least five of us who own skidoos, Jim Lloyd, Jim
Davidson, Paul Kennedy, Sharon McIntyre and of course, the Old Guy, giving us
enough capacity to put together a lovely weekend trip to Haliburton to do a
little ice fishing for brookies, bows and splake over a couple of days. We would stay in a heated cottage at Windermere Lodge on
Kennisis Lake and head out to do battle from there.
We have had many club trips of this nature in the past and they are a
lot of fun (especially in the evening when we pile into Windermere’s giant
hot tub before hitting the sack). Cost
would be about $125.00 for everything. Please
contact either Sharon, smac@idirect.com
Jim jglloyd@rogers.com,
Sheila or me if you are interested.
We
just received word that once again there will be casting at the Sportsmen’s
Show during the school March Break. The
plug games will be on the first Saturday with the flies on the second.
All those casting will receive free passes to the show, but must
indicate their wishes to me as S.A.P. The
‘Show’ is more of a friendly exhibition than a competition and certainly
as in past years our club should be well represented and probably garner most
of the awards accordingly. There
are categories for both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ casters, giving everybody a
crack at the fun and trophies.
We are still waiting for a few members to get their 2002 dues in to us
and have decided after discussions that this will be the last REEL THING that
we will be sending out to these folks unless their dues are received before
the end of the month………that’s only fair to those who do pay their club
dues.
Gord
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