Posts Tagged ‘team osprey’

In addition to the photo on this post, here’s a few more:

From left to right: Myself, Arron Varga, Ivo Balinov, Captain Ernie Kalwa, and The Tall Guy (Graham Murfitt).

A smiling Arron with a smiling rainbow trout.  Look at that big wide open mouth grin on the pair of them.

And Ivo with a nice rainbow that doesn’t look as happy as the one Arron caught.

This weekend, the team members of The Ospreys fly fishing team that will be participating in the Canadian Fly Fishing Championships in Grande Prairie next month, all managed to get together for some “team building” and camaraderie.  Ernie, Aron and I all live fairly local to one another so we’ve been able to fish together often – but the other two, Graham Murfitt and Ivo Balinov are from the Ottawa area.  This weekend was an opportunity for all of us to be together at one place, fishing and talking.

I’ve fished with Ivo before but this was my first time with Graham.  I met Graham last year at the Championships and we spoke briefly while being half hammered – so it was really great for me to spend some time fishing with him.

Quite a lot of fish were caught on some “secret patterns” over the two days, and Ivo and I likely caught the two largest fish that were caught.  We didn’t measure them, but they were very nice rainbows!

Much thanks to Humber Springs Trout Club for making their facilities available to us for our two days of fly fishing fellowship.

Sometimes, time flies by too quickly. Perhaps rather, it is that an activity, or activities, take much longer than originally thought.

I had planned to be at my “tying desk” the past couple of evenings, but on both nights, have had other things to do – when I started them, I thought I’d still have time for some fly tying before it was bedtime, but I was wrong on both nights.

But, I did update the All About Fly Fishing website.  Another interesting and personally reflective article by Randy Kadish, about his experiences trying the fly rod out on some piers in New York City.  Then, my own review of the Airflow “Platinum” series fly line.

And finally, a profile of our “Team Osprey” captain, Ernie Kalwa, for the upcoming Canadian Fly Fishing Championships on the Grand River in Ontario.

I was hoping to add some fly tying articles as well, but wasn’t able to at this point in time.  Hopefully two or three will be forthcoming in the next couple of weeks.. bearing in mind that during the preparation for the Championships, I’m not at liberty to discuss fly patterns that are successfully producing on the Grand River.  Perhaps after the competition, I can create an entire series of articles devoted to the most successful flies!