This year we had our Members Casting Clinic on April 6th. Drew Alway from Always Fly Casting instructed for the second time. We had a Beginners session in the morning and advanced session in the afternoon with pizza lunch for both groups at noon. Gil Schiller managed the day for the Club.

Drew Alway is a Fly Fishers International Certified Instructors who utilizes

FFI teaching techniques. For further information go to their website https://alwaysflycasting.com/.

March 5th was Fly Tying 101/Method Session night. We had fourteen Members attend. Wayne Deptuck & John Bowers went over resetting your Password and Fishing Reports on our Website. After that Sheldon Guertin tied three Chrony patterns. Our Toonie draw ending up being a $5.00 draw as no one had toonies lol. Eight draws were made Chrony patterns tied by Sheldon Guertin & Andrew Hall. Thanks. Tight lines.  Link to Video    
https://youtu.be/NJCibzuCNgo

Great monthly meeting at the Shanghai Mandarin Restaurant with thirty one Members attending. The Hermann Fisher Fly of the Month award went to Don Trethewey and Neil Whitmore who donated books and fly tying materials for Members. Members helping Members. Topics were;

• Bahamas planning update. November 20th to December 3rd tentatively.

• Fly Tying 101/Method Session February 26th

• Fly Casting Lessons with Drew Always April 6th

• RAAT Meeting – 

We had a great fishout at Jacko Lake on Saturday October 14th. A dozen Members attended and it was really nice to see the boats anchored together and the Members bantering back and forth. A special thank you goes out to our Smokie Chef Gene Ebata who didn’t fish in the morning arrived there with all the lunch goodies and had them cooked when we came off the lake. It seems shrimp, gomphus were two of the most successful patterns. I lost one on a blob and had several bumps. Everyone had action…some more than others…but we all had a great time. Tight lines. Len