THE
REEL THING
June 2000
We must have the shyest club
members in the world! We know for
a fact that many of you folks have been fishing for trout and pickerel since
the seasons opened over the past month, but have yet to get a single report on
your results that we can share with everybody else to enjoy.
Therefore, the only fishing trips that we can tell you about are the
ones we participated in ourselves. We
just learned that our ‘numero uno’ angler, Rick Matusiak, has suffered a
nasty set-back in his recovery after his quadruple by-pass surgery, but
appears to have turned the corner and should be improving soon. Good buddy and club sponsor, Roger Cannon and I had a
memorable outing a couple of weeks ago to check out how the browns were
hitting in the Ganaraska River now that the Steelhead have returned to the
lake. We probably caught over
thirty trout, mostly smallish rainbows and browns, from six to twelve inches,
but did manage to keep nine for the pan that stretched the tape to twenty
inches. The biggest, a gorgeously
marked brown tipped the scales just below four pounds and fought for almost
fifteen minutes before I was able to beach it in the shallows.
The entire epic struggle was duly recorded on film by Roger.
We were also able to pick a
couple of shopping bags full of Wild Leeks, along with a few Morels.
They provided several meals for me to date and Roger reported that he
made a scrumptious soup from his share of the bounty. The fishing was so good that upon our return I sent out a
bulletin to the entire club informing them that all our trout fishermen should
hit the Ganny as soon as possible in order that they, too, could share in the
excellent fishing. I still have
not heard back though from anyone who was able to take advantage of the
notice.
However,
Jaydee (Jim Davidson) expressed and interest in having a go at the river with
me, just a couple of days ago and we had another ‘great Ganny day’!
But, this was Jaydee’s
initiation to our kind of stream fishing and as we all know, negotiating our
equipment and ourselves on small streams in the middle of swamps and
jungle-like bush can be a debilitating experience at the best of times.
For once I fished the Ganny with somebody who fell or tripped more
times than I did. Although we
were picking the young buds just a couple of weeks ago, the Fiddlehead Ferns
are already over five feet tall and do a fine job of hiding logs and holes
waiting to entrap us. Jim
and I caught quite a number of trout, although none of the bigger fish like
those that Roger and I were luckily able to produce.
We did turn a number of these over, nevertheless, but they were not as
eager to strike this time out and just came out from their cover long enough
to tease us. Jaydee insists,
however, that he enjoyed the experience and will give it another go as soon as
he can escape from the golf course once again.
***Next weekend is our annual Scarborough Championships event.
It is part of our charter that we host this event each year and have
done so since 1985. It is absolutely imperative that we get as many of our members
participating (either as casters or assistants) as possible!
If our own members fail to show, it can be quite embarrassing
otherwise! If you value our club
as much as we do, then Saturday June 10th will
be set aside on all your itineraries to join us for the day. Of course there
will be medals, trophies and plaques awarded, as well as merchandise prizes..
The next day, Sunday, June 11th is when we hold the distance
games, also in Milliken Park, however we
do not require quite as much help as we do for the Saturday accuracy events on
the pond.
After the
games on Saturday we all retire to our home for a bit of a party, B.B.Q. (Ray
doing the cooking) Spa and
Hot-tub and discussions about our casting prowess - or lack of same.
We are fully aware that the majority of our membership are not really
competitive-minded, but joined the club for a variety of reasons, however this
is the one event that we ask everybody to participate in, one way or
another, not just for the competition and awards, BUT FOR THE FUN OF IT.
It was
nice to see old friend, Leon Schwartz, out at the pond last Wednesday evening
with his grandchildren and the four of them enjoying the targets and
surroundings in Milliken. Hopefully
we will get a full turn-out of the membership next Wednesday with everybody
getting a last chance to sharpen up their skills on both the plug and fly
targets at the pond before the big weekend!
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