The Intern's in Canada!

For those of you who don't know, Harry Tomlin is whom we call the intern. Harry was a co-worker of mine at TCO, who became a fishing buddy, and now is just a good friend. Harry is a fish bum, he came out of retirement to work for a fly shop because he loves fishing. Since we began the blog he has been a huge supporter of it, so much so that we decided to give him an "unpaid internship." Which is ironic because we don't have any money to pay him anyway. Harry had a slow start to his intern duties but he has been earning his wings. 

This week the intern was in Canada catching Northern Pike and Smallmouth Bass on the fly. Here is a little recap of his trip with an introduction from his son, Scott. Enjoy!

Hi guys,

Love the blog. My dad got me hooked on it. It is so impressive that you guys have something new on there every day. As you know the Intern had the week off to fish in Canada. While he did plenty of fishing himself, he still had to choose my flies and tie them on. Got to keep him busy. He also let me use the new Hatch 4 plus!!! It was amazing. Here is a picture of him performing his basic guiding duties. Notice the shirt and the Hatch reel on the old Sage 6 weight. There was an 18in (me) and a 17 in (Dad) bass on the end of that rod. Guess the Intern did it again! 

Thanks,
Scott Tomlin              

                                                                                                                                                                                             

Hey guys hope all is well,

I've been traveling a bit. My son Scott and I just back from annual trek to Northern Ontario. Lady Evelyn lake near New Liskard Ontario about six hours above Toronto. The place is called Island Ten and yes it is on an island in the middle of the lake. Remote but not exactly roughing it. Fishing was a little tough but we were only ones in camp using fly rods and fishing for pike and bass. Rest of camp was a bunch of Ohio and michigan walleye fisherman who did not react well when we told them to back off when they started all the Penn State Sandusky BS. We had a few bad days but found the fish and were productive and had lots of action. No huge pike mostly in mid 20's range missed a lot and the intern learned again the need for not using 5x tippet on pike. That did not work well at all. My son out-fished me as always. We had a secret bass spot in downed timber stumps just a quarter mile from the island camp. The spot was producing 17 inch and up smallmouth consistently on poppers just at dusk on calm nights. Everything had to be right which it was about four of the seven nights, it was wild. We moved so many big, aggressive bass it was unbelievable, Caught a few too.

Thanks and Peace,

The Intern
 

Little blurry but that is a fat smallmouth!

Proof that it was indeed on the fly!

Gotta love the effort to get the fly rod in there.