Hockey legends and Fly Fishing Art
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Bobby Orr receives Fly Fishing I at the eighth Assumption Life Bobby Orr Benefit Golf Tournament - held July 24 at the Fox Creek golf course in Dieppe - raised $122,500!
In July 2007 I was invited to attend the 7th annual Assumption Life Bobby Orr Benefit Golf Tournament at Fox Creek Dieppe NB. This is an annual event that Bobby Orr has been a part of for the last eight years. The event is a fundraiser for the Institut Atlantique De Reserche Sur Le Cancer / Atlantic Cancer Research Institute.
I had been asked to make a donation of one of my Fly Fishing Prints for the fund raiser. It was set to be a wonderful day at a great venue.
The rain fell very hard that day, as it had on a number of past Tournaments, and we did not get to play golf. Bobby Orr jokingly said at the dinner that evening that there needed to be two dates set aside, the one advertised in which it would rain and the unadvertised in which we all could play golf. We managed to have our lunch that day at the golf course as well and I had the honour of sitting with Bobby. He joined our table because we were talking about one of his passions, salmon fishing. It was great to have this in common with him. Boston was my favourite team when I was young and he my favourite player, like so many of us of that era. We had an interesting discussion regarding salmon flies and there was one that piqued his interest. It is a fly called the Chief that my Dad is very fond of and has fished many years. I will tell that story another day. As it turned out I sent one of the chiefs to him and one of the organizers of the event. I haven’t heard yet if he has had any luck fishing with it.
“Chief Needahbeh”
At the dinner my print was brought on stage for the auction and Bobby Orr jumped right in on the bidding. It was a hard fought battle but, alas, someone scooped the print from Bobby. It turned out to be the organizers of the event that bought it out from under him. I was curious about why and they assured me that they had plans for it. It turns out that each year they get a gift for him for attending and they were looking forward to the following year to present this image to him.
As you can see from the photo at the beginning of this post that he was thrilled to receive the print at the tournament this year. He is seen here with Denis Losier being presented with Fly Fishing I. I was unable to be there for the event because we were traveling in Manitoba this past summer. I look forward to attending next year and talking to Bobby about his new print. Hopefully we will be able to play golf on a bright clear day for the ninth annual.
Fox Creek Golf Course, Dieppe, New Brunswick
on February 3rd, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Pretty cool stuff.