2007 Annual Meeting

The 2007 AGF Board Meeting will be held at Cape Lookout, NC, Nov. 1-4. Sessions start Thursday a.m., with the Plenary Talk, "Microbial ecology land and sea: the case study of Cape Lookout," being given by Duke University's Rytas Vilgalys at 8 p.m. at The Pine Grove.

For those of you planning on fishing, here is some received wisdom from past years:

> >>> Miles Silman - 10/22/01 11:29 AM >>>

>Hey Steve,

>

>Great to hear from you. I was fixing to send Rytas an email telling him to

>get ready! None of your problems are insurmountable. First, the important

>stuff: line and terminal tackle. My buddy Craig and I have thrown just

>about everything there is at them and keep coming back to a couple of

>baits. First, for fly fishing, I fish a teeny 450 sinking line. That

>stuff sails out there in the stiffest of wind and stays up enough to get

>the fly to the fish. I use a tapered leader when fishing a floating line,

>but I think I have been using about 6' of 20lb fluorocarbon. Anyway,

>nothing too fancy with the lines. Whatever you'd use for ocean striper

>fishing will work. I think craig often uses an intermediate sink. I am

>ccing him on the email, so you can get him directly.

>

>As for flies, Craig is a fly-tying master, so any specifics go to him. I

>mooch flies from him for the trip. That said, the only thing you really

>need are chartreuse and white clousers, about 2" long. I guess my

>second-place fly would be the same thing at 3", and my third place would be

>the same at 1.5". Really, they eat them up. You might want to throw in

>some all whites and maybe a blue and white. And if you have the bug bad

>tie some Deceivers in the same colors. If you just show up with c&w's,

>though, you'll catch fish.

>

>We spin-fish for them when they are skittish, when the wind is howling, or

>when our arms ache. No shame there! Craig had an awesome lure called a

>'megabait', all silver, about 3.5" long. It rocked. You may want to call

>him and get the exact make. The second-place finisher, believe it or not,

>was a lead-head jig with a single-tail white mister-twister grub. And it

>wasn't second by all that much! I'd bring both. There are other things

>like 'sting-silvers' etc., that people say work, but I haven't tried them.

>

>Craig and I camp on the Core Banks. We go out to the light house and dock

>if the Feds aren't there, or unload and then anchor the boat if they are

>(overnight docking is prohibited). There is a picnic shelter to the left

>of the dock where we set-up food, and we camp a little further off in the

>sand. One thing to remember is that it can be windy, so bring a tent that

>is up to the job. It can also be chilly. You want to be prepared for the

>hardest driving spray you can imagine at 40 degrees while fishing, and also

>80 and sunny. I'll have a Coleman stove, so we should be set for cooking.

>

>I always start at www.wmi.org/saltfish when looking for reports. Check the

>saltwater flyfishing page as well as the other reports. Don't get too

>sucked-in by the NC Saltwater page, the reports are under the general

>reports section usually. Also, www.captjoes.com has some good info.

>

>Search for a guy named Gordon Churchill on www.google.com and you'll get

>his page. He's a guide, but he has good articles on fishing for albies.

>

>I'm getting psyched for the trip. The place is beautiful, and the fishing

>is almost always awesome. Sight casting to busting fish with gulls

>wheeling overhead. You can't beat it! Ah, there will be jillions of 1lb

>bluefish out there as well, so bring some gear for them as a diversion.

At 03:19 PM 10/22/2004 -0400, Craig Poff wrote:

On the albie flies...2/0 is a little too big. Most of the one's we've
used in the last few years are are #1 & #2. The baitfish have a tinge
of pink to them so I'd highly recommend chart over pink, pink over white
& chart over white for your clousers. Ditto on the megabaits. They
also make one that has a purplish/pinkish side that rips. A 4' leader
of 20-30 mono with a tippet of 15-20# flouro will be plenty.

While Miles luvs his teeny line, my primary rod (9wt) has a clear
intermediate shooting head with flat running line. Doesn't get as deep
as Miles' but I think I can pick it up and shoot it a bit quicker and
with less effort...I'm all about less effort! I'll have my 11 rigged
with the teeny 450.