A Beautiful day in January
Monday January 5th was a beautiful day (start off cold, but warmed up in the 60s). With the holidays over and the warm weather 15 FATC members headed off to Montauk, including Glenn Haake, Kenny Klimes, Al Blair, Matt McClure, Ken Welter, Pete Drochelman, James Bingley, Larry Mangel, Harold Bates, Bob Palisch, Jim Franke, Jim Craig, and Don Varner. Bob Born met the group there with his granddaughter in tow, learning to fly fish.
Larry Mangel had been on several trips, but never officially graduated, so Jim Craig took the opportunity to get Larry Graduated. Larry knocked it out of the park, putting several in the net before lunch.
As we got to the park, we quickly realized that few others were there, and we had the park to ourselves, so the group spread out. There were many fish in the stream and fishing was on. Everyone had several in the net before lunch.
As with tradition, the group met back for lunch to discuss strategy and what was working. The after lunch, fishing was just as good as the morning session. Many fish were caught on many different flies, including the hair of the dog, walt’s worm, wooly buggers, perdigons, white midge with clear glass bead, elk hair caddis, Blowtorch, Headlight Caddis, an assortment of Euro Nymphs, and black mohair leech.
After the horn, unfortunately, with this size of group, the only logical choice was Pizza Inn, where Kenny Klimes was named the Pizza Inn Lead and Ken Welter / Bob Palisch are battling to be named as the soft server lead. Ken did a great job supervising the refill of the soft server machine and Bob showed everyone how to get the most for their money using a salad bowl for the soft server instead of those tiny ice cream bowls.
Overall, it was a great day.
There are nice days throughout the winter, get out and get some fishing in.
