President s Letter ANNUAL BARBEQUE WITH OUR ILLUSTRIOUS COOKS BEN WHITE & KEVIN BROUSSEAU AND AND AND AND. Captain Jerry Sparks

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I think I have a different appreciation for drone photography now. This month, as we have done in the past, we are planning on having our annual end of season BBQ.

1 President s Letter Newsletter May 2016 I thought that Spring had arrived. But I was wrong! Cold wet weather is good only for the fish we attempt to catch. Last month Captain Ray came and presented us with a different appreciation of the waters around Rhode Island. The story he told was great and the drone photos were amazing. I think I have a different appreciation for drone photography now. This month, as we have done in the past, we are planning on having our annual end of season BBQ. We are having Captain Jerry Sparks coming to the BBQ. In the past he has talked on fishing out of Kayaks. Now, we may be able to fish on the pond using them. The location will be as in the past at Whiting s Pond, North Attleboro. You can get there off of Route 1 and take West Street. If you have any questions call or write a board member who can give you better directions. Mark your calendars: June 7 th we are planning on having a trip to Ninigret Pond, Rhode Island for a worm hatch. We will be meeting at Home Depot on Route 140 Mansfield to car pool around 4pm leaving. Please contact me via phone or if you will be able to attend. We would like to have a head count. Howie is also planning on having a trip to Cotuit later this month as well and In the Fall for shad at the narrows in Rhode Island. Watch the message board. While out fishing this summer, take some photos of the fish you catch and send them to Steve! He will post them on the message board. We are getting tired of seeing the same old people catching fish. We would like to see some new fish taken!! At the meetings voice your opinions this is your club. Tight lines hope to see you, Joel NEXT MEETING: Tuesday May 24, 2016 Location: Whiting s Pond, North Attleboro Be There No Later than 5PM!!! ANNUAL BARBEQUE WITH OUR ILLUSTRIOUS COOKS BEN WHITE & KEVIN BROUSSEAU AND AND AND AND Captain Jerry Sparks Providing A KAYAK DEMO ON THE POND BRING YOUR GEAR & FISH TOO!

FLY TYING CORNER Armand s Archives Spring Fishing Cinder Worm Hatch at Ninigret Pond Charlestown, RI Every year serious striped bass fisherman pay attention to the calendar.

2 FLY TYING CORNER Armand s Archives Spring Fishing Cinder Worm Hatch at Ninigret Pond Charlestown, RI Every year serious striped bass fisherman pay attention to the calendar. They target time in May and June. Fly fishers from all of New England will fish Ninigret Pond and other shallow salt ponds in Rhode Island. What attracts the fishers is an event called the Cinder Worm Hatch. It s a time when worms come out of the mud to mate driving bass crazy. Usually it s schoolies bass from a few pounds to ten pounds. Some thirty pound bass have been taken on six weight rods. My friend Paul Pezza took a 45 inch bass on his eight weight! He was knee deep and just made his cast and the bass took his size 2 fly. Ninigret Pond is located in Charlestown, Rhode Island. It can be hit or miss depending on water temperature. It s a popular spot for kayakers, skiffs, canoes, anglers wading, etc. Some people use six weights. Sometimes the wind can be strong and a 7 or 8 weight would then be best. Here are two successful choices for the Hatch: GENE S WORM FLY Hook: Mustad salmon hook size 6 or 4 Thread: Black 6/0 Body: Flame glo bug orange yarn Wing: Olive bucktail over yellow Head: Black Ostrich herl HINE S FOAM TAIL WORM Hook: Mustad Stainless size 4 or 6 Thread: Fine Mono Body: Closed cellular foam overwrapped with crystal chenille Head: Black Ostrich herl NOTE: More variations of Capt. Hine s Cinder-Worm Flies are detailed on the CrossroadsAnglers Website!!!

3 Fly Of The Season THE DETAILS: Hook: Salmon size 6 Thread: Mono Tail: 1/8 closed cell foam strip: orange, red, maroon 1/4 wide, 4 + long (may cut shorter) Body: Pink Crystal Chenille Head: Black Ostrich Herl 1. Tie foam strip behind eye, so that the tail will be 1 1/2 long, unless you want a different sized fly. The rest will hang over the eye. Start with strip on the side facing you, so that it will roll into proper position on top. Wind mono closely down to tail. 2. Tie on a few inches of chenille and wind forward leaving room about 1/4 for head. 3. Tie on ostrich herl and wind forward and over itself till whole herl is used up. 4. Wind mono in front of foam strip to force the strip up 5. Cut foam strip in front to look like gurgler. He uses a leader with a dropper: about 6 ft. of 20 lb mono (not fluorocarbon) to the dropper connection. Then, leaving a 9 long tag for the dropper leader, he ties another 4 ft. to the trailing fly. The overall leader, then is 10 feet long when done. Use the floating fly as the dropper. Strip: Two 6 inch pulls and pause. Capt.Bob Hines Cinder-Worm #1 HOWIE S NINIGRET WORM-HATCH TRIP Tuesday June 7, 2016 Meet up at the Home Depot at Route 140 in Mansfield at 4PM. Contact Joel to let us know you are going!! ALSO JOINING US AT THE BBQ PAT GRENIER Casting Instructor Just a short bio: I have been fly fishing for about 40 years. I am a certified casting instructor through IFFF. They are an international nonprofit organization whose members consist of fly fishers, casting instructors and fly tiers. Members are conservationists of all fish in all waters and educators of all things fly fishing. I have also been a fly casting instructor in the LL Bean Outdoor Discovery School for over 10 years. I have lived on Cape Cod for 9 years and fly fish for stripers either from shore or from the kayak.

4 Mastering the Hatches by Charles Meck illustrations by Dave Hall The recipe for catching trout during a hatch is one part timing, one part preparation, and a healthy dose of luck. Increase your odds by covering multiple bases with multiple flies. Fish both the adult and emerger, or emerger and nymph, or another combination. CARRY SEVERAL sizes of the same pattern. Always carry the size that most appropriately matches the hatch; but also carry smaller patterns. Carry several patterns that match the same hatch. For the most common hatches, I carry hackled, parachute, and Compara-dun style versions of the same fly. Sink the pattern, if changing size or pattern doesn t work. Move during the hatch if you don t see risers. Don t be afraid to drive or walk up or downstream. Sometimes fish tend to pod up; other times, water or hatch conditions vary in a stream from one area to the next. Arrive at the right time. Know when the bugs hatch and be there. In the spring, fall, and winter this is often midday; in the summer, plan to be on the water late.

5 Fish on lousy days. Aquatic insects that hatch on overcast days tend to remain on the surface longer than when they hatch on bright sunny days. Trout are also less wary and feed more readily on cloudy, overcast days. Fish tandem flies. Cover multiple bases with multiple flies. Fish both the adult and emerger, or emerger and nymph, or another combination. Travel. Extend your fishing time for the super hatches Green Drakes, for instance by traveling from stream to stream, generally from south to north or from low to high elevation to follow the hatches at their peaks. Location is everything. Sulphurs and drakes emerge in totally different areas of stream in different habitats. Drakes prefer silty bottoms; Sulphurs (and many other mayflies) prefer riffles. Learn and seek out the habitats different insects prefer. Take time out to identify what is hatching. You don t need to know Latin, but sometimes a bug looks a different color or size up close than it does flying in the air. Take time to discern how fish are feeding on the insects: Are they boiling just under the surface or leaping out of the water? Charles Meck is the author of more than twelve fly fishing books, and his writing appears regularly in Mid-Atlantic Fly Fishing Guide and Fly Fisherman. You can find out more about Fishing Tandem Flies by visiting the author's site ( or contacting Stackpole Books, distributor for Headwater Books. Excerpted from 1001 Flyfishing Tips: Expert Advice, Hints, and Shortcuts from the World's Leading Fly-fishers (Headwater Books, January 2008, 219 pages). If She Can Get Out There Fine Lines Current and quotable: "Nothing grows faster than a fish from when it bites until it gets away. Anonymous "Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau "The gods do not deduct from man s allotted span the hours spent in fishing. Herbert Hoover Then So Can We!!! This is our last newsletter for the season. Everyone have a Great Spring & Summer doing what we like to do best: Flyfish! See you in the Fall. Ed.

President s Letter APRIL 2016 MEETING SPEAKER. Capt. Ray Stachelek

President s Letter APRIL 2016 MEETING SPEAKER. Capt. Ray Stachelek President s Letter If it ever stops raining and the snow we have gotten finally melts, I may get out to do some fishing. Every time I plan on going out to fish the weather people predict rain or snow (the