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Rendezvous will be the weekend of Oct. 31 thru Nov 2 at North Toledo Bend State
Park near Zowlle, Louisiana. anyone is welcome to attend. Very little fishing
is done at Rendezvous, rather it's a progressive dinner and fly tying event
that is held at the group camp facility at the state park. Just tell them at
the entrance that you are one of those flyfishing nuts and they will let you in
for free and point you in the right direction. Bring sheets or sleeping bag and
towels. There are 5 bunk houses that could sleep about 150, but only 65 to 70
show up most years. Lots of Cajuns, so bring your appetites and some food to
share. We start eating Friday afternoon and the food and bull**** flows till
Sunday afternoon. It is kind of like a family reunion, but we are all friends,
so we don't have to fight. We let the kids and dogs run wild and there are no
rules...just kind of live and let live. It is a hell of a lot of fun. Costs $20
a head or $30 per family for the entire weekend. Be prepared to pack on about
another five pounds. You will learn new tying techniques from all. There are
about 20 tables set up in the room next to the commercial kitchen and they are
used for tying and food. You might check Walter's website
http://home.sprynet.com/~waltermc/Rendez/indexR.html.

Big Dale

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bd - since reading your posts over the years about rendezvous and
roadkill roundtable, i have wondered how such a collection of folks
began to gather in non-trout venues for fly-tying "camaraderie". i know
tying has expanded beyond trout and salmon flies, but i assume y'all
still tie for the cold-water fish. i'd like to hear the story about the
beginnings and history of your gatherings. they sound great, and i hope
to drop in sometime...

jeff

Brimbum wrote:
Rendezvous will be the weekend of Oct. 31 thru Nov 2 at North Toledo Bend State
Park near Zowlle, Louisiana. anyone is welcome to attend. Very little fishing
is done at Rendezvous, rather it's a progressive dinner and fly tying event
that is held at the group camp facility at the state park. Just tell them at
the entrance that you are one of those flyfishing nuts and they will let you in
for free and point you in the right direction. Bring sheets or sleeping bag and
towels. There are 5 bunk houses that could sleep about 150, but only 65 to 70
show up most years. Lots of Cajuns, so bring your appetites and some food to
share. We start eating Friday afternoon and the food and bull**** flows till
Sunday afternoon. It is kind of like a family reunion, but we are all friends,
so we don't have to fight. We let the kids and dogs run wild and there are no
rules...just kind of live and let live. It is a hell of a lot of fun. Costs $20
a head or $30 per family for the entire weekend. Be prepared to pack on about
another five pounds. You will learn new tying techniques from all. There are
about 20 tables set up in the room next to the commercial kitchen and they are
used for tying and food. You might check Walter's website
http://home.sprynet.com/~waltermc/Rendez/indexR.html.

Big Dale

Rendezvous
 

have a great time BD. It was good to see ya a couple of weeks
ago... time was too short.


wally

Brimbum wrote:
Rendezvous will be the weekend of Oct. 31 thru Nov 2 at North Toledo Bend State
Park near Zowlle, Louisiana. anyone is welcome to attend. Very little fishing
is done at Rendezvous, rather it's a progressive dinner and fly tying event
that is held at the group camp facility at the state park. Just tell them at
the entrance that you are one of those flyfishing nuts and they will let you in
for free and point you in the right direction. Bring sheets or sleeping bag and
towels. There are 5 bunk houses that could sleep about 150, but only 65 to 70
show up most years. Lots of Cajuns, so bring your appetites and some food to
share. We start eating Friday afternoon and the food and bull**** flows till
Sunday afternoon. It is kind of like a family reunion, but we are all friends,
so we don't have to fight. We let the kids and dogs run wild and there are no
rules...just kind of live and let live. It is a hell of a lot of fun. Costs $20
a head or $30 per family for the entire weekend. Be prepared to pack on about
another five pounds. You will learn new tying techniques from all. There are
about 20 tables set up in the room next to the commercial kitchen and they are
used for tying and food. You might check Walter's website
http://home.sprynet.com/~waltermc/Rendez/indexR.html.

Big Dale

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I will quiz Walter McLendon of The Pineywoods Flyfishers, the local Lufkin FFF
club when we meet. He does most of the arranging for this event these days. In
the old days of the event it was just a gathering of folks from The Pinywoods
Club in Lufkin and the North Louisiana Flyfishers Club from Shreveport getting
together camping and fishing and tying flies and telling lies. One year they
spent the entire weekend in tents due to the rain and one of the employees of
the park let them know about the group camp facility and we have been there
ever since. Jeff Guerin was the president of the North Louisiana Flyfishers
Club at the time and he had a fly shop in Shreveport. He has now moved on and
is the only guide on the Little Missouri River in Arkansas, which is the closet
tailwater trout fishery to that area.WWW.LITTLEMISSOURIFLYFISHING.COM He has a
great web site and dispenses information about what is currently happening on
the river including everything except the names of the individual fish he and
his clients caught yesterday. He is also one hell of a creative fly tier.

We all fish for trout, but we have to drive farther. Our Dallas club has a club
outing scheduled next June on the San Juan.

We still have a hell of a lot of fun with our non-trout fishing and tying as
well. Mark Pinsel and Kyle Moppert of Hammond and Baton Rouge, Louisiana are
the co-founders of a group know as The Classic Atlantic Brim Fly Society, and
you should see Mark's box of brim flies tied in salmon style tied on size 8
Partridge Bartleet hooks.

This will be a sadder event this year as both Mike Verduin and Tom Nixon have
passed away during the last few months, but other kids will join us who will
start tying flies and fishing with them from age 5 up. This is how our
traditions are passed on. Mike willed his Able vise to Kyle's son Ian who is
now 12 but has been tying flies since age six. Life goes on.

If you go to the pineywoods web site you can click on Rendezvous and see some
pictures of the event taken in previous years.
http://home.sprynet.com/~waltermc.

More in a couple of weeks.

Big Dale

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Jeff Guerin was the president of the North Louisiana Flyfishers
Club at the time and he had a fly shop in Shreveport. He has now moved on
and
is the only guide on the Little Missouri River in Arkansas, which is the
closet
tailwater trout fishery to that area.WWW.LITTLEMISSOURIFLYFISHING.COM He
has a
great web site and dispenses information about what is currently happening
on
the river including everything except the names of the individual fish he
and
his clients caught yesterday. He is also one hell of a creative fly tier.


Hey Big Dale:

I have been aware of Jeff's site (and the Little Missouri) for several
years, and have begun planning to go down there (up there for you) on two
occassions, once to meet up with my father-in-law in Poplarville, Miss., and
once to meet up with a fried who moved to Austin. What's your understanding
of how that tailwater is developing, troutwise? Has anyone planted any
brown trout (the one success story of Arkansas flyfishing) there? Have you
fished there?

Arkansas Game and Fish appears to still regard it as pretty experimental.

Memphis Jim

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Memphis Jim wrote:snipWhat's your understanding
of how that tailwater is developing, troutwise? Has anyone planted any
brown trout (the one success story of Arkansas flyfishing) there?

I have not fished the river for a couple of years, but Jeff knows it better
that anyone, Why not send him an e-mail?

Big Dale

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"Brimbum" wrote in message
...
Memphis Jim wrote:snipWhat's your understanding
of how that tailwater is developing, troutwise? Has anyone planted any
brown trout (the one success story of Arkansas flyfishing) there?

I have not fished the river for a couple of years, but Jeff knows it
better
that anyone, Why not send him an e-mail?

Big Dale

That's not a bad idea, but I'm afraid I'll get the fishing guide, "It's the
greatest water ever" response. But I'm cynical.

Memphis Jim

How was it a couple of years ago?

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Jim wrote:That's not a bad idea, but I'm afraid I'll get the fishing guide,
"It's the
greatest water ever" response. But I'm cynical.

Memphis Jim

How was it a couple of years ago?

The fishing was fine if you like fishing for "factory trout". I caught 10 to 12
inch pale silver "rainbows" till I tired of it. I later went above the lake and
fished for my beloved little bluegill and caught a few smallmouth bass as
well.IIi don't particularly care to fish tailwaters, but the fishing was as I
expected it to be. I have known Jeff for about a decade now would expect him to
be a straight shooter with you as he is with everyone else that I know.

That area is one of the poorest that I know of in the state and I find it kind
of depressing. You don't find many towns that can't support a fast food
franchise. Still, I like that part of the state since when I was a kid our Boy
Scout Troop would camp near Shady Lake for each summer. That was pretty cool
except for all the damn copperheads...I don't do snakes but at least I can
smell copperheads.

Big Dale

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interesting...thanks!

jeff

Brimbum wrote:


If you go to the pineywoods web site you can click on Rendezvous and see some
pictures of the event taken in previous years.
http://home.sprynet.com/~waltermc.

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I don't do snakes but at least I can smell copperheads.
Big Dale

They do have a distinctive smell, don't they. The Ozarks, where I went to
Scout Camps were chock full of them

----
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar

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