THE
REEL THING November
1996
We
are growing again! Three new
members to welcome into our club, Kyle Sullivan,
Jim Lloyd and Mike Crilly. Young
Kyle comes to us bursting with exuberance.
For such a young man he has already accumulated an abundance of
knowledge about fishing and seems eager to absorb anything he can learn from
us as well. I am certain that
Kyle will go a long way in both fishing and tournament casting if he continues
to be a good listener and is willing to practice the skills he learns with us.
Jim is another new member who comes to us with his own fly rod and fly
tying kit, but with only very rudimentary knowledge of how to get the best out
of both. He has already
demonstrated though that he has the desire and patience to learn whatever he
can from Leon and our other instructors.
Mike is our newest addition and with absolutely no previous fly casting
experience is finding it easier than most to quickly absorb the lessons he is
getting in the gym, both at the fly tying table, as well as the targets.
We all wish the three of you success in all your future fishing and
casting endeavours.
The
booth that our club assembled and manned at the Scarborough Town Centre was
adjudged by everybody to be just about the most interesting one at the ‘doo’.
And obviously, it was responsible for attracting our newest members.
We
received a nice card from Don Cox out in Calgary the other day. He is working hard on his university studies out there and
has only managed to wet a line once on the Bow River since moving to Alberta.
Poor guy! Maybe he will
remember the great fishing to be had right here and move back after he
graduates. It was a shame
to lose Don, one of our most ardent and helpful members in the past ten years.
Seven
of us had a stimulating (another way of saying ‘bloody cold’) overnighter
down to Eastern Haliburton to blitz another of Deval’s ‘Hot Spots’!
Oh well, the general consensus was that a good time was had by all and
nobody actually admitted that he, or she, had suffered frost-bite.
Although the temperature when we got up in the morning registered minus
fourteen and we had to take the ice out of our rod guides after every cast,
everybody seemed to be properly attired for the elements.
The catch of the day was registered by Paul Kennedy, a nice small mouth
bass. Perhaps the highlite of the
day though was watching Len and Adam utilizing their double-haul fly casting
skills from the upper deck of Len’s big boat.
When you’re that high above the water in the first place, it’s easy
to throw long lines all the way to shore, eh guys!
Anyhow the little trip, the cottage, the evening tackle clinic and the
gang were all great. Let’s hope
we can do it again for the brook trout opening, January 1.
***The
big news is that we will be conducting a free fly tying and casting clinic and
seminar at the school on the evening of December 11th.
Fred Bigioni has suggested several times that we do this
and we are finally getting around to it.
Let’s hope that he and all of our members get out to give us a hand
with the folks who will come to take advantage of this opportunity for an
evening of free instruction.
***Also
our in house club competition will take place on the evening of December 4th.
Our lovely annual challenge club trophy (won last year by Fred Bigioni)
will be at stake and be awarded to the caster who turns in the best total
score on rounds of both fly casting and plug casting on this evening.
It will be strictly an informal competition and fun for everybody, with
super prizes and certificates for the winners.
Please make every attempt to take in this evening.......even if you
don’t compete, we will need your assistance.
Yes, we will have refreshments, too!
If we are lucky, we might even get Irene out for this evening.
Earlier
I mentioned the January 1st trip. I
forgot that we have quite a few new members who are not aware of this one.
We book a cottage at Windermere on Kennesis Lake (Giant Hot-tub and
all) for Friday and Saturday night. Two
days of ice fishing and skidooing into A/B Lake for big brookies.
This trip can be a lot of fun and the fishing exciting (catching, not
guaranteed). Total cost $100.00
(Breakfast, Saturday & Sunday, Lunch, Saturday and Supper Saturday, all
included) There is only room for
eight on this one and we must have confirmation and fifty dollar deposits by
December 4th if you want to join us. It
will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Those
members who haven’t been lucky enough to have been getting out to the gym
this fall are missing out on a great gang.
We are having a lot of fun and you should make every effort to get out
and throw a few - or - tie a few with the new members and the rest of us.
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