Past and Future
What was life in Nova Scotia like in rural Nova
Scotia 85 years ago? Sometimes I wish I’d been around to experience it, especially the wonderful fishing. Bruce Weir,
our friend and neighbor, arrived as a newborn on his family farm in Stillwater way back then. After all those years of working,
raising a family with wife Ruby, guiding, fishing, and hunting, Bruce celebrates his 85th on June 12th,
2010. Their son Eddie and daughter Helene will join Bruce and Ruby for the big day. Happy birthday Bruce!
A new non-profit organization, the Eastern SportFish Association (ESA), hopes to make fishing in Nova Scotia
a lot more like it was in Bruce’s heyday, starting with Guysborough County. The new organization will hold a public
meeting on Sunday, June 13, 2010 at the Stillwater Community Hall (beside the handsome, newly-restored church building in
Stillwater) to discuss plans, elect officers, and other business. For more information, or to join ESA, see website, www.sportfishns.ca.
The new association’s goal is to unite communities, cultural groups and related organizations
within eastern Nova Scotia whose primary objective is to develop and sustain the recreational sport fishery and provide economic
and social benefit to the Province. That’s a long way of saying “If you like fishing, ESA is for you!”
It’s also a short way of saying that fishing could once again be the popular healthy activity for residents, young
and old, that it used to be, that aboriginal food and ceremonial fisheries could share in the sustainable resource, and that
businesses and the economy of our rural communities could again prosper due to increased angling tourism. ESA believes its
goal is achievable because, only twenty short years ago, it was a reality.
Now, here’s a great new purple trout fly designed and tied by Roland Pentz of Fisherman’s Harbour,
NS, called the Evening Storm. All of the angler reports we’ve heard indicate that Roland has come up with a real winner.
Evening Storm
Thread:
UTC G.S.P. 50 Denier black thread
Hook:
Mustad 9761 or 9762 streamer hook
Rib:
Oval gold tinsel
Body:
Purple chenille
Throat:
Purple hen hackle
Underwing:
Blue Krystal Flash, 8 strands or so
Wing:
Grey squirrel tail dyed purple
Head:
Black thread finished with glossy head cement
Please stay on the line …