Weekends

Another weekend has arrived, my days to take it easy before gearing up for a week of fishing; a tough job but somebody has to do it.

For the second week in a row, I am headed to the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum. Friend Tom Mason will be the featured fly tyer this afternoon, and it is always nice to watch a master at work. Tom was honored this past spring as a Catskill Legend. I consider him one of the true scholars of the Catskill School, as well as a learned keeper of the flame of fly fishing history.

Last Saturday, my good friend and Guild Vice President John Apgar took to the vise, tying some beautiful and intricate classic Maine streamer flies in the Carrie Stevens tradition. You never know what might happen, and John ended up being one of the stars of a documentary student film by a group of young fishers visiting from New Jersey. There were recently hooked by the fly fishing bug and came to learn more about Catskill history, lucking into a bonanza of information with Catskill Legends Dave Catizone and Tom Mason present and more than willing to answer their questions.

I will take my turn at the Museum’s tying table on Saturday September 16th, so stop by and say hello if you are in the area. We have been blessed with high summer rainfall and comfortable temperatures, so river conditions are very good.