Archive for February, 2011

Fly Fishing

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We’ve had a beautiful white winter this year, haven’t seen one of those in a long time. Not always much fun shovelling as it gets higher and higher but sure looked like a wonderland looking out my office window into our backyard. Sadly the weight of all that snow on some of our shrubs and bushes was just too much after it started raining and broke the branches off of them.

That’s going to require a lot of extra work come spring, might even have to replace them all. I would much rather be spending that money on fly fishing gear, hope my wife didn’t hear me type that.

On a happier note fishing season’s not far off and that always lifts my spirits, so today I’m bringing my fly fishing gear up from the basement for another season.

Fly Fishing For Chain Pickerel And Smallmouth Bass

Fishing buddy Casey emailed me the other day asking if I had flies for pickerel and bass, which I thought was curious because he doesn’t fly fish, well not yet. As I read on he said he wants to give it a try this year and my excitement level went through the roof.

I told Casey I had some that have been torn up pretty good but would be tying some before fishing season starts. Now I will tie enough so that Jamie, Casey and myself will have enough to tie into some wacky and wild pickerel in our favourite spots. My first pickerel ever was on a fly rod and it’s a lot of fun, especially from my float tube.

I have been fly fishing for smallmouth bass as well and they are a blast on the fly rod. A great fish to watch jumping all over the place. So you can well imagine I am already dreaming of our days on the water in 2011.

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I can’t begin to tell you how much fun fly fishing has given me over the past 30 years. And to think that it all began with a family visit from Ontario and a 15 minutes lesson on how to cast using a fly rod, thanks to my brother-in-law Joe. I never went back to Ontario and since that time I have had countless hours of fun and excitement fly fishing for brook trout, Atlantic salmon, smallmouth bass and chain pickerel.

How time flies when you’re having fly fishing fun, right?

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I took a part time job pumping gas for Sears, in Dieppe so I could have lots of time to practice my new fly fishing skills on some of the most gorgeous brook trout I had ever seen. I just kept finding new brooks and streams and they all seem to have hungry brookies waiting for a fly.

So I spent the next 4 or 5 years getting familiar with the waters of New Brunswick and even started fly fishing bass and pickerel which opened a whole new world of fishing to me.

Ready To Fish at The Drop of a Hat

I was definitely addicted to fly fishing, so much so that I almost always had my canoe on the roof of my car ready to go fishing and of course kept my fishing gear in the car 24/7. I could get off work and be fishing in a half hour if I wanted to but as time went on I found more and more places to fish so some days I would drive for awhile to get to some new waters. It never gets old.

God Wants Me To Fly Fish

I remember one day I came out of work ready to go fishing and saw that my car had been broken into. I was instantly heart broken as I expected to see my fly fishing rods, reels, waders, gear, and 100s of flies that took me a long time to tie to be gone. I would have to buy all new stuff and that wasn’t really in the budget.

I looked inside and nearly burst into tears. Then I started doing the Happy Dance. All my fly fishing gear was still there. So I wondered if the broken passanger window was an accident. Then I saw the glove box was open and all our CDs were missing. This highly intelligent thief had stolen about 15 or 20 christian CDs and left hundreds of dollars in fishing gear just sitting there.

I went back into the gas bar and told the guys I work with what happened and we all had a good laugh. Then one of the guys from the automotive shop helped me put plastic over the window and I headed off fishing feeling very blessed that God wants me to fish.

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