Grand River Spring Spey Clave TOMORROW!!

[randyflyfisher]

We are putting together another Spey Clave on Saturday May 30,2009. it will be held at Bean Park in Paris,Ontario from 9A.M. till around 4P.M. or whenever we have hand enough.There will be demo's and instruction of Skagit,Scandinavian and Traditional Spey Casting.Free BBQ lunch of burgers,smoked sausage and refreshments will be served.We will also be having a free raffle/draw for some nice prizes. We presently have 3 demonstrators and are working on a few additions to the roster.We have confirmed rods and pro staff for Loomis,Snowbee,Guideline and Sage/Redington.Any questions [e-mail] or pm.

Thanks for looking,Randy.

[randyflyfisher]

Here is the link for the flyer for the Clave.


www.grandriverspey.ca/



Thanks,Randy.

[randyflyfisher]

The site set up for the clave has been updated.Please feel free to check it out for info on the clave.



Thanks,Randy.

www.grandriverspey.ca/

[randyflyfisher]

We have had two additions to the roster of demonstrors.Rick Whorwood will be joining us to and doing a casting demo/instructional on skagit casting. We are also happy to add Simon Gawesworth to the list of people doing spey casting demos. More details will be posted on the Clave web site shortly.

Cheers & thanks,Randy.

[Nick Pionessa]

way worth going just to see Simon and the addition of Rick is icing on a great cake. nice job and i hope it all goes well.

btw i'm moving this to the main page and we'll make it an announcement as we get closer to the date.

[Nick Pionessa]

i have an addition to the lineup to post for Randy who is having some technical issues.

We have had another very welcome addition to the roster of demonstrators for the Spey Clave. Bruce Kruk will all also be joining us. Many thanks to Bruce for offering to come and help us out at the clave.

The web site will be updated soon with information on Bruce and his demo.

[Nick Pionessa]

here is the schedule of events

The Schedule, note; changes have been made

Demonstrations & instructions from the following:
8:00am-9:00am Coffee/Meet & Greet
9:00am-9:45am Courtney Ogilvie-Single & Switch Rod Spey Casting
9:45am-10:30am Rick Whorwood-Skagit Casting
10:30am-11:00am Peter Charles-Scandinavian/Underhand Spey Casting
11:00am-1:00pm BBQ Lunch/Play Time/Larry Halyk-River Stewardship
1:00pm-1:30pm Simon Gawesworth-Tips to improve Spey Casting
1:30pm-2:00pm Neil Houlding-Traditional Spey Casting
2:00pm-2:30pm Bruce Kruk-Longbelly & Long distance tournament casting
2:30pm-whenever Free play time for practice & instruction & raffle

[Nick Pionessa]

On page 11 of the Canadian Fly Fisher we got a little write for the Clave.Also have it confirmed that Nick Pujic and April Vokey will be joining us at the Clave to represent the magazine and help us out. My thanks to Nick,April and The Canadian Fly Fisher.

[Nick Pionessa]

www.grandriverspey.ca/

This is my final reminder regarding the clave. We several excellent instructors lined up to do demos and help with people's spey casting. We also have the services of 3 certified single handed casters available through out the day to work with individuals wanting help with single hand casting.
We now have over $6,000.00 in item for the silent auction.Items range from spey lines to
fly selections,guided fly fishing trips to spy rod and spey rods packages valued at up to $1,000.00 plus. Please remember that no money will be taken from donations or the silent auction to cover any of the expenses for putting the Spey Clave together.All money is going to the Waterloo Regional Police Association to hlp support their kids programs.
Officers Steve Beckett and Steve Tremblay will be with us all day to answer any questions and also to take the money at the end of the day for us.We will also be accepting donations of used fishing equipment of any kind in good useable condition to be passed onto kids.
Remember to bring your waders and a chair to sit on if you like.Coffee will be available during the day so please bring a coffee/travel mug if you can to help reduce on the garbage some.

Cheers & thanks,Randy

[Nick Pionessa]

Hope everyone had an enjoyable time at the Spey Clave and maybe even learned something new to add to your casting arsenal. It was a day of good food,good friends and some excellent casting demos and instruction.
My thanks to the casting instructors,pro staffers and volunteers that helped throughout the day. Without them the day wouldn't happen.
A special note of thanks to the many fly shops,manufacturers,casting instructors and friends that donated items and services to the Silent Auction.Thanks to their generosity we were able to raise over $3400.00 for the Waterloo Regional Police Association to help support their many childrens programs.

Thanks to everyone for their hard work...Randy.

P.S. For the record we had well over 200 people attend the Spey Clave.

Randy