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