THE
REEL THING
October 1991
Our
club is growing again, we have three and a half new members.
A big welcome from all of us to Steve Ryder, an ardent fly fisherman
who came aboard to polish up his casting techniques.
Steve has already proven to be quite an asset to our club with his
enthusiasm. He is one of the
first to show up on Monday night so that he can help us out with the equipment
and one of the last to leave, for apparently the same reason. Steve is also a fly tying
afficionado, which will be appreciated by everybody. Fresh ideas are
always welcome.
Mike
Dinner, one of the original half dozen of us who formed the Scarborough Fly
and Bait Casting Association, six years ago today, has rejoined the club after
a four year hiatus when he moved all the way to Alliston (just to be closer to
the Nottawasaga River). Mike has
been through a lot over the last few years, but his determination pulled him
through and we're all tickled pink to have him back in the fold!
Just for the record - and all our newer members that might not know
Mike - he and I have been fishin' buddies for many years and you should all
know that this guy is one 'Hell of a fine all-round angler!'
We
are also fortunate that Mike brought along another fishin' buddy
of
his to also join the club and work on his fly casting, Doctor Bill McClintock. Bill, as I understand it anyhow, had to pretty well give up
his practice and retire because it kept interfering with his fishing trips
with Mike. We are going to put
Bill on the spot one of these Monday evenings to regale us with stories about
some of the fabulous trout fishing trips he has participated in all over the
world.
Although
the three new members of our club all have something to offer, as well as to
possibly learn, our other 'new' member (the half referred to earlier) arrived
just a little too late to be welcomed in our last bulletin.
Congratulations, Debbie! Devin
Durnford joins us, complements of Debbie and Peter and along with his brothers
Kyle and Jamie a few years from now will comprise a whole casting team by
themselves. Peter swears that
Devin is the last......he says he has missed out on too many of the club trips
because of poor timing on his part with his baby-making.
Things
are well underway in the Gym on Monday evenings, with plug casting, fly
casting and fly tying going great guns. The
rod building group should also be in action pretty soon.
Paulo Conceicao's first effort at bamboo rod making is rapidly nearing
completion and it looks like it will be a beauty.
Jim Lee is taking orders and making arrangements to bring in a load of
fresh bamboo culms for us to split and turn into works of art.
Our
annual club novice tournament, won by Ela and Dave Collins last year, will
take place on November 25th and the Christmas party is scheduled for December
16th. We will give you more information in the next Reel Thing.
North
Jory informs us that his casting protege, Matt easily captured the title in
his division in a casting tournament at St. Catharines and just last week
proved that he is no slouch in the fishin' department as well by catching a
number of small mouth bass in Haliburton between two and four pounds.
Matt also caught and released a small musky which brings to mind Rod
Sill's sad story. It seems that
Rod was practicing his casting stroke on his dock up on the French River when
a musky "As big as my car!!!" grabbed his offering. Ed's note: He drives a small car. Oh well! Just as he did in New Brunswick with the 'gigantic'
Atlantic salmon that he hooked off the dock, he promptly 'released' it!
Leon
Schwartz, Peter Durnford, Sheila and I wound up the speckled trout season at
A/B with an absolutely gorgeous fall day of fly casting - but little success.
It was left to Leon to save the day so that WE could honestly say that
WE weren't skunked.
We
are making initial arrangements for a club ice fishing trip to Haliburton for
the re-opening of the trout season. Probably
to Windermere......just love that giant hot tub!
As usual, the first eight members to get their deposits ($50.00) in
will be the lucky ones. This is a
weekend junket and although we don't have the final cost of this one, as the
lodge is under new ownership, it should be between $100.00 and $125.00.
Leon's
wife, Gail, is off to Israel to visit their daughter for a month so it is safe
to assume that he would be receptive to all and any offers to wet a line for
the next few weeks. Call him at
495.8180.
See
you at the gym. Our new hours are
6:30 to 9:30 Monday evenings.
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