THE
REEL THING
October 1993
We
are nicely settled into the school for our indoor season and have already
had fly tying, rod building and leader construction sessions with lots more
to come in our somewhat expanded agenda for this year.
If you are one of the unfortunate few who have yet to participate in
our indoor fall activities this year, then you have missed valuable pointers
and instruction in the above mentioned pursuits.
However, all is not lost, as you can quickly catch up to the rest of
us, while also honing your casting skills without the distractions of wind,
rain and so on. Simply make a
concerted effort to join us in the gym and workshop at our winter
headquaters, the Samuel Hearn Senior School (Pharmacy & Danforth) on
Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 9:30. Those
who have yet to show up at the school are also missing out on some great
stories emanating from the more loquacious fishermen in the club.
Leon
Schwartz, Fred Leibl, Dave Usher and others continue to make their
impressions on the brown trout of the Grand River with fine results being
achieved by all parties on flies tied by themselves.
It's gratifying to hear these stories and realize that most of the
expertise utilized in their sport was learned at the Scarborough Fly and
Bait Casting Association! One
of the better Grand River outings was experienced by Ron Bolton and Roger
Harwood just last Sunday while dodging rain clouds.
They both hung a number of beauties on their feathered creations and
Ron swears that he came close to taking a brownie bigger than the trout that
the Ganaraska River produced this past summer for a number of us.
Namely, Dave Collins' 19"er, Paulo Conceicao's 18" and
several over 20" that I was lucky enough to bring to heel.
Dave,
his wife, Ella, their 2 1/2 y. old son, Maurice, Sheila and I wound up the
season with an outing to A/B. We
got absolutely soaked for our efforts but, unbelievable the five of us had a
great time although the speckles pretty well had lockjaw.
Sheila and I each raised two pounders though with a lot of coaxing. Peter Durnford, Steve Ryder, Ron Bolton, Paulo Conceicao,
Dave Collins and I tested the waters a couple of times at the Saugeen River
and took a number of tasty pink salmon and giant chinooks, of course, up to
thirty pounds! Geat sport in
the Saugeen's fast water!
We
are still trying to put together an overnight camping trip to Beanpole for
sometime in October-November. Thee
are at least four guys with 4 x 4's in the club, so we should be able to
promote at least one of them to partake in this one.
The trip would be a ball with possibilities of great fly fishing for
rainbows up to 7 pounds! Please
let me know if yoou are interested in this one.
If
we are going to have our customary season opener, ice fishing for speckled
trout trip to Windermere, this year (January 1st & 2nd) then we must
book the cottage within the next few weeks.
This is a fun weekend and usually produces the largest brookies of
the year. The evening sessions in Windermere's giant hot-tub after
skidooing and fishing outside all day are only one of the treats on this
weekend. Meals, accomodation (2
nights) are included in the package price ($120.00)
We require a minimum of eight on this trip in order to maintain the
low price. First-come,
first-served, so please get your deposit (50.00) in to me as soon as
possible if you are interested.
Don't forget the club indoor novice championship
coming up soon. Past winners
include John Alexander, Dave Collins, Brad Allen, Paulo Conceicao.
