THE
REEL THING
July 1993
This
will be just a short bulletin to recap recent events for some of our members
who have not been participating in the club's activities lately.
The
fishing trip to the Franklin Trout club, courtesy of Dorothy and Bernie Ennis
was a super outing. Everybody
caught trout with my wife, Sheila and Scott Purcell setting the pace.
The largest trout though, was captured and whipped to a standstill by
Peter Durnford on an old, ugly Wooly Bugger.
My trusty Despair worked well for me as well. Nice attendance at this one: Sheila and I, Scott Purcell,
John Alexander, Dave Usher, Roger Harwood, Ron Bolton, Peter Durnford and, of
course, Dorothy and Bernie.
Our
first annual Scarborough Championships held at our new pool and fields in
Milliken Park, just completed, was a huge success with the largest number of
participants ever, including casters from St. Catharines, Oakville, and Metro
Toronto and our own club.
Some
of the highlites: The All Round
Accuracy was won by Dave Collins, with Roger Harwood winning the All Round Fly
Accuracy and Paulo Conceicao repeating his All Round Bait Accuracy title.
Sheila won the All Round Ladies plug Accuracy, with Ella Collins
capturing golds in the 1/4 and 5/8 events.
The Junior titles were swept by Matt Ross with three golds.
Norm Wallachy took the All Round "A" title, beating me by 4
points overall. I did manage to
win the Anglers Fly (173') and Trout Fly (178') Distance events however.
Pete Edwards won the "A' Accuracy title by a whisper over North
Jory. Almost a hundred medals,
plaques and trophies were awarded to the various winners, along with over four
hundred dollars of merchandise prizes distributed to all but the "A"
casters. Also we were lucky to
have the assistance of Irene Johnston, Rod Sills, Lee Bolton and Debbie
Durnford to look after the paperwork. Many
heartfelt thanks to all of you.
Normark,
Tightlines, Ushers Foods, Zep, LeBaron, St. Hubert Chicken (Markham &
Lawrence), The Toronto Sun and Kip Van Kempen Insurance Associates all
contributed to make this a successful event.
Please show your appreciation to these firms with a thank you and a
mention to them whenever you get the opportunity.
However,
with the tremendous amount of work that goes into organizing and running an
operation of this nature, there are several disappointments that I feel I must
address here.
As
all the casters in our club know we have been working diligently for the
better part of the year now to secure the North American National
Championships for our club and Scarborough.
If not for 1994, then definitely for 1995.
We will know definitely by the middle of August.
The City of Scarborough has been cooperating with us in every respect -
we will have a permanent dock before long and so on - but they want to know
why so many of our members did not choose to participate in the Scarborough
Championships.
The
city will be monitoring the results and participation in the next event, The
Ontario Championships which we are hosting on the weekend of August 28th and
29th. If we are to continue to thrive as a viable fishing and
casting club in everybody's eyes and continue to receive their cooperation,
then we must have ALL OUR MEMBERS participating in this one; if not as
competitors, then certainly as assistants both before the event actually takes
place and on both Saturday and Sunday.
I
really don't think it's too much to ask of our club members to give up one or
two days to make this a successful tournament.
We must have your input, one way or another.
Surely, fishing, lawn mowing and what have you can be put on the back
burner for a couple of days in the year to repay the club and those of us that
run it for all the time and effort that we have put into it to make you all
better fishermen, and certainly better fly and bait casters.
There
are myriad little (and not so little) jobs to be done and we are asking you to
please offer your assistance wherever possible as well as to make a supreme
effort to actually participate in the competition.
To follw up on this plea, we will be attempting to phone everybody in
the next day or so to get all of our members out to a meeting at the
Scarborough Civic Centre Pool next Monday, July 26th at 8 p.m. after the
casting practice is finished. If
you truly believe that our club has been of help to you over the past, then
now is the time to show it by reciprocating.
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