THE
REEL THING
September 1999
I
hope that everybody received the computer information re the Y2K situation
that I forwarded to you after receiving it from Bobby Spear. It is more important than you may think and should be
utilized if you are to avoid problems with your laptop or desktop.
If you didn’t save or print it up, drop me a note and I’ll send it
out again.
Our
club begins its fifteenth indoor season next Thursday, the 16th,
and it is to be hoped that we will have a strong turnout as that is when we
will draft our plans and itinerary for the fall and winter months. Without your input we will have no idea where you would like
the emphasis to be in our schedule, re: casting practice and instruction, fly
tying, rod building, guests, fishing trips, competitions, game and fish
dinners, fungi collecting, etc. However,
we must be doing something reasonably well to have lasted this long!
Jim
Lloyd and Fred Leibl on their first, joined Paul Kennedy, on his third and
myself on a twentieth trip to Northern Quebec’s Broadback River to fish for
giant Brook Trout. Schweibert
states in his monumental work on trout that the oldest record on the books,
Brook Trout, 14 ½ lbs, 1914, if ever broken will probably come from those
waters. I can personally vouch
for that as our trips to the Broadback, going back to 1961, have produced
several Brookies that would have easily toppled the long-standing
record…………….if they hadn’t been released for one reason or
another……….usually excitement or carelessness.
This
year’s foray was an entirely different kettle of fish from all previous
nineteen trips. Equipped with
down vests, parkas and sleeping bags, for the customary close to freezing
temperatures, our party was shocked to discover that the area was in the midst
of a heat wave with the air temperatures climbing well into the nineties and
the water, an unbelievable seventy degrees.
Hardly Brook Trout conditions, either for their pursuit or their actual
existence. The big Specks,
usually ranging from 22” to 28”, were nowhere to be found, having
completed their spawning runs in the fast water, before retreating to cooler
depths in the river and lake system.
However,
we did have a fine trip and thanks mainly to the efforts of the rest of the
crew, enough Trout (up to 16”) and Pickerel (to 20”) were taken so that we
didn’t go hungry. As planned,
six of the eight meals we enjoyed were fish, but certainly a far cry from
fish-sticks. Here’s a sampling of our dining on the Broadback:
Trout
Almondine with Home Fries and Caesar Salad;
Breaded Pickerel Fillets with Creamed Parslied Carrots;
Sauteed Trout Fillets with Fresh Dill, Buttered Rice and Cucumber
Salad; Trout and Pickerel Fillets
Baked in Sealed Individual Foil Packets along with Seasoned Wild Rice and
Summer Salad; Fried and Seasoned
Pickerel Fillets with Buttered New Potatoes and Italian
Plum Tomatoes.
Anybody
like to join us for next year’s trip????
Those
folks wishing to go on a fall trip, probably Thanksgiving Weekend, for either
Rainbows and Salmon, or to Haliburton for Brookies and Splake, should get in
touch with either Jim Lloyd, 438.8540, or myself as soon as possible so we can
put it together accordingly.
We
are hoping that our fly tying classes will once again be in the capable hands
of Leon Schwartz. Fred Leible
assures us that he, too, will be able to offer occasional assistance.
We
must find out soon who wishes to build what bamboo rods as we have to purchase
the necessary cane supply as soon as possible.
Please call me, or Jim. Tight
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