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Bear's Den
Saltwater Edge
Founded 1994 by Armand Courchaine
September 26th, 2006
6:30 PM
From the President
Well, here it is "September. Where did the summer go? Gee Whiz, time is passing faster and faster. So it is time to welcome you all back to the indoor meetings. We will be scheduling some interesting speakers for the coming year—the first one in will be in November. Also, we hope to have someone demonstrating a particular fly for each meeting.
I hope by the time you read this that the weather has turned and the "second season" of fishing is underway. I know that I am looking forward to the fall fishing to make up for what little fishing I did during the spring and summer. I cannot wait till the first meeting to see you and hear all the stories. Hope you have pictures for the club slide show in May.
Tight lines and screaming reels,
Howie
Agenda
Doors open 6:30 PM
Fly Tying
Rob Lurie will instruct and advise at the Back to Basics Table
Ed Shea will demonstrate a Gummi Fly
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8 PM Announcements, Business
Raffle: Powell Switchback 5-7 Fly Reel
Powell Switchback 5-7 Fly Reel
Back to Basics Table
Rob Lurie’s Back to Basics table is for beginners—who want to learn basic techniques--and experienced tyers who want to brush up on techniques they don’t often use or have encountered problems they’d like to solve. Stop by for as long as you’d like.
Pictures of
Summer Fishing
Sprinkled throughout this newsletter will be pictures of fish caught this summer.
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Chuck McGovern’s Striper caught at Race
Last May’s Casting Clinic
It was raining. And trying to find a pond—among all those new, expensive RVs at the New England RV Superstore’s 30th Anniversary Jamboree at Normandy Farms in Foxboro—was a little weird. Once you got there, though, the fishing was great. People were catching decent-sized trout on about one out of every five to ten casts—especially after Rob Lurie arrived with his famous Marabou Leech.
Rob's was orange and yellow.
Though, to my knowledge, only one person came for casting practice—Howie got a lesson from Rob, who’s a certified fly casting instructor. But there was fishing instruction: Ed Shea, and maybe some other people, gave spin fishing tips to kids who came for the RV show.
Ed Shea also caught a five pound bass.
Joel Kessler’s Utah trout.
Club Trips
Any one interested in sponsoring a club trip for the fall--see Howie.
Armand’s first pike on a fly rod.
What They’re Saying
Tight Loops
In the fall issue of Fly Fishing in Salt Water, Steve Rajeff offers good advice on making tight loops: First, practice often on a lawn or in the water. One good exercise is to see how narrow a loop you can form by casting at a comfortable distance (35 to 40 feet) and keeping the tip high during the back and forward strokes. Then, little by little increasingly bend your wrist—and therefore the arc through which the rod tip travels—to widen the loop. Finally make an intentional trailing loop by punching the rod forward. These exercises will make you more conscious of your casting technique until the correct method becomes part of your muscle memory.
Another cause of tailing loops is failing to complete the line and leader turnover at either end of the false cast. Turn your head to follow your cast to get a better sense of timing and watch the line straighten on the back cast to prevent tailing loops, improve the rod load, and gain the extra power you need to overcome the wind.
Frank McLaughlin holding onto a 30-40 inch salmon in the Margaree River in Nova Scotia. He will cross the high water and bring it within 6 feet of the far bank before the salmon jumps for the 4th time and bends open the hook.
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Mike Cree catches a small bluefish but looks pretty happy. This was
the only picture he took over his eventful summer.
Misty morning on Sherman Lake, Warrensburg, NY, last week of August--George Forte and Peter doing all the work.
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