PRSC member Leon Kates will talk about his trips to Lake Beauchene, Quebec Province, Canada. He will discuss logistics, fishing techniques, lures, and display numerous pictures of the 50,000 acre private reserve that contains 40 lakes and 7 fish species.

Please join us and learn a little bit more about fishing in the Great White North.

• Where: Vienna Fire Station, 400 Center St South, Vienna, VA 22180
• When: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 7:30 pm (doors open at 7:00 for socializing)

Leon Kates

About Leon

Leon began fishing as a teenager with his father on the beaches of Southern New Jersey on the Delaware Bay. The primary target was speckled trout (known as weakfish locally) using bloodworms or strips of squid. The fish were regularly featured on the family dinner table. The pair also caught small sharks, sea robins, puffer fish, and occasionally large rays. The family didn’t really fish for freshwater fish.

Leon began fishing freshwater when he moved to the Northern Virginia area. Initially, fishing out of a 14 foot sit-in sea kayak, he fished local reservoirs and lakes for largemouth bass and crappie.

Upon joining the Potomac River Smallmouth Club he learned the techniques to catch our favorite species. On a club trip to the James River Leon learned first-hand that a sea kayak isn’t the best platform to use on our rivers. Capsizing at the base of a rapid our club members helped him bail out the kayak, gave great advice on how to navigate rapids, and provided suggestions on kayaks that were more suited to river fishing. On that advice he bought a Wilderness System Ride 115 sit-on-top kayak which he fishes out of today.