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THIRTY‐FOUR pounds, five shillings, and fourpence halfpenny is a large sum for a person without present income or future prospects, to procure within three days. So I thought as I sat through that long forenoon, racking my brains to find out ways and means for obtaining that sum, or even a part of it. But I racked my brains in vain; no inspiration came to them; nothing turned up. I had nobody that I could borrow or hope to borrow from. I was, it is true, possessed of two well‐to‐do aunts, but they were vestals of the stingiest, who, as long as I could remember anything, had never given me or Dolly a farthing's worth, with the exception of two bone brooches, coloured crimson, and representing fruit and flowers; brooches vast in size, but infinitesimal in value, and which they had borne all the way, across sea and land, from Rome for us, as characteristic mementoes page: 87 of the Eternal City. I felt that I had rather die than be beholden to their niggard charity.
I ran over in my mind all my few poor worldly possessions, to find something vendible among them; but to no purpose, I had no jewels, Dolly having appropriated all our mother's ornaments, before I was of an age to care much whether she appropriated them or not. The sole thing which I possessed, that could by any possibility be worth more than a few shillings, was a large unwieldy old watch, which had belonged to my maternal grandmother—a watch with a jewelled case with queer figures chased in gold upon it, and which I wore every day for want of a better, though it kept a time of its own, or, as often as not, no time at all. The idea of selling this ancient timepiece did occur to me. but I dismissed it as impossible. Who would buy such an old warming‐pan? and, moreover, whom should I see to offer it to?
As the hours stole on I grew very down‐hearted. Tuesday morning would be here directly, and with it the Furies, in the shape of that accursed butcher in his blue blouse. page: 88 Despite all my anxious precautions, he would get access to my dear old father, and would dun and torment him, and make him even more miserable than he was now, though, God knows, there was no need for that.
My father and I had by this time quite made up our little differences; we never could be at war with one another for more than an hour; and we had taken our diurnal stroll about the premises, to inspect the stock, and say what we had said yesterday, and what we should say to‐morrow about it. We had thought the red cow looking invalidish, and had ordered her a bran mash; we had, in imagination, sold five or six of our best porkers, and got fabulous prices for them; we had doomed the black pullets to an untimely death, and had administered his daily carrot to the old gray cob. And now my father had gone back to his books, and there would be no tearing him away from them for the rest of that day.
We dined at one, and did not have tea till eight; so that the afternoon spread in rather dreary perspective before my page: 89 mind's eye; rather an inconveniently long period of time for a young lady who had no more pleasing occupation than that of meditating on her own and her father's liabilities.
It was an oppressive, sultry sort of day, rather depressing to the spirits. The sun had gone out of sight somewhere, though there did not appear to be any particular cloud to hide him; and a dim, dull haze, which might be prophetic of either thunder, blight, or increased heat, enveloped all except the nearest objects. It was stifling in the house, and I betook myself to the garden, and strolled rather disconsolately between the luxuriant borders. But the garden did not please me to‐day, I seemed to know every twig in it so intimately. I had not energy for gardening, and moreover, had memories connected with my last essay in that line which I did not care to dwell upon.
A low fence divided our grounds from a field of green corn, and over this fence I climbed, and sauntered through the young barley to a small fir wood at the other side of it. Ordinarily, I was not page: 90 fond of taking solitary walks, having a wholesome fear of beggarmen, loose horses, &c.; but I did not dread an encounter with any such alarming objects among those tall quiet pines. It was very cool and shady there, and I enjoyed looking through the long vista of tree aisles and arches, without any brambles or brushwood to obstruct my view; while the fallen pine needles made a pleasant carpet for my feet.
Beyond the wood, was a meadow all a‐blaze with buttercups, and beyond it a garrulous brook, which was the bound of my walk. Arrived here, I sat down in the grass on the hither side, and thought of the butcher. A little rude handbridge led over the hurrying, clattering stream, and on the other side of it, right opposite to me, rose a mill, and an old farmhouse, with a range of straw beehives and a plat of blue borage under the diamond‐paned windows, beside it. The mill was at work, and the water came plunging and dashing and sparkling over the big wheel, as it turned round, dripping. I love a millwheel, and could watch it for ever; page: 91 my eyes followed it nosy with a sort of fascination, as it moved round and round interminably, with a noise, though loud, yet eminently soothing.
My attention was distracted by a little flock of yellow velvet chickens, coming pecketting down to the water's edge, with the old hen clucking fussily in the midst of them. Then the miller's wife came out with a bowl of something in her hand, and threw handfuls to them, and I wondered whether she fed her chickens on the same thing that we did ours; and then three large white ducks came swimming down the stream, paddling and quacking, and diving their sleek heads under water. But after a while the chickens wandered, scratching and picking, out of sight; the miller's wife went indoors, and I got tired of watching the ducks stand upon their heads. I yawned, and took one last glance down stream, before rising to go home.
Like a little fool as I was, I pretended not to see him, and turned my head, surmounted by its ragged brown hat, perse‐ perseveringly page: 93 veringly down stream, and tried to appear immersed in the contemplation of the trout leaping half their own length out of the water, after the flies under the dipping alders, and then flopping back again. But all the same; I need hardly say that I heard his feet coming through the long sweet grass, as plainly as ever I heard cannonball or thunderclap.
"De do, Miss Lestrange?" said a jolly voice beside me, abbreviating the Briton's customary greeting to his fellow, after the manner of the young.
The brown hat and the reddened face it shaded veered round from the study of the trout, and two youthful and embarrassed lips responded, "How do you do?" in return, it and a ladylike hand, in a most unladylike glove, perforated with many holes, went out to meet Major M'Gregor's large one—went out shyly, but gladly.
"I hope you did not intend to cut me," said he, laughing. "You looked away so perseveringly when I took off my hat to you on the other side, that I felt almost afraid of coming near you."
"I did not see you," I began, hastily; page: 94 "at least—at least," and there I stopped, having expressed myself with my usual lucid coherency, and being fully aware of it.
"Well, never mind!" said he, good‐naturedly, trying to put me at my ease. "I'll forgive you, if you did mean to cut me, on condition that you won't send me away now;" and a pair of dark honest gray eyes looked at me in a beseeching and insinuating manner, to which at Lestrange Hall I had not been accustomed, and which I thought pleasant, though extremely odd. I plucked up my spirits, and determined to revolt against the dominion of gawkiness, and be sprightly.
"I could not send you away, if I had wished ever so much," said I. "This meadow is not mine, nor yet the grass nor the buttercups: you have as much right to be here, I suppose, as I have."
"But do you wish to send me away?" Silence. "Do you, Miss Lestrange?" Silence still. "Do you?" rather impatiently, bending down to look at my face.
I perceived his eagerness, and was page: 95 elated by it. He wished me to say "No," so I would say "Yes." A spirit of graceful contradiction entered into me. Why should I not be agaçante, and espiègle, and two or three other nice French adjectives whose exact meaning I should have been puzzled to define. So I looked up into his anxious countenance, and said, laughingly,
"Yes, I do wish to send you away."
"All right," said he, calmly; "then I'll go," and he picked up the fishing‐rod he had tossed down on the grass, took off his hat, and went.
I have experienced a good many moments of mortification in my life—of course we all have—but I doubt whether I ever felt one more bitter, or more completely undiluted by any dash of sweetness. This was the result of my archness then. Why, oh why had not I kept to my native stupidity? I had got on much better then. When I attempted to be funny, it was like a cow standing on her hind legs—nobody could understand what she would be after.
In the impulse of the moment I sprang to my feet, intending to run after him, page: 96 but I was held back by the remembrance of my mature age, and of what the best of fathers would say, were he to see me coursing round the big field after the "Brummagem young man," to whom he had so strong an objection. So I sank down on the grass again, and the silly tears stole into my eyes as I watched Richard walking huffily off, without looking once back at me. He did not walk particularly well, but much as dismounted dragoons usually do; but to me his gait seemed that of an offended angel.
The trout might have leaped up into the trees above them, and sat there singing, for all the notice I should have taken of them now. A faint hope lingered in my breast that he might relent—might come back—that I might see him pushing through the alders and the wych‐elms again; and in this hope I stayed there disconsolate till the dew fell, and the flowers went to sleep, and the June moon came up behind the fir wood. There I sat, thinking of dear, dear Richard, and of the butcher, and weeping over them both.
That was Saturday; need I say that page: 97 next day was Sunday—a day on which most people dine early, and many people have roast beef for dinner. Morning service at Lestrange Church began at eleven, and commenced with a hymn, which I led. My voice, as I said once before, was my strongest points—my strongest but one, perhaps. On mature deliberation, I think that my eyes were my strongest. Anyhow, it was a rich, full contralto, and some of the low notes were, I flattered myself, almost as deep as a man's.
As I laid down my hymn‐book at the conclusion of the hymn, I felt that a casual observer would find some little difficulty in distinguishing which were my cheeks and which were the red roses in my bonnet. I did not yield to the temptation of taking one look, long or short, at the lion‐hearted Richard (lion‐hearted in is thus a second time braving my revered papa), but I knew by instinct that he was in a pew over against me, in which Mr. Harris of the Home Farm had charitably given him a corner. page: 100 I did not look at or towards him, and I tried honestly not to think of him—tried hard to be as sorry for my sins as I said I was—tried to implore from that God who was to me then but a dim awful abstraction, those good things for my soul, without which that soul would be so cold, so naked, so famishing—tried to remember of how infinitesimally little account Richard M'Gregor and his beauty would be to me at the Judgment Day.
Often and often had I terrified myself with two vivid pictures of Death and Judgment as I lay wakeful on my bed, in my dark room at night; but here in the full blaze of the summer sun, I could summon but faint shadows, indistinct reflections of such pictures before my mind's eye; here youth and joy and love seemed dominant, and to keep all darker powers, baffled and worsted, in the background. So I buried my head in my big old prayer‐book, which had a dried pansy between two of its leaves, and a squashed fly between the other two, and caught myself praying earnestly, seriously, devoutly, for Queen Charlotte, the Prince Regent, and page: 101 all the royal family. I had mentally resolved that morning to abstain during the day of rest from all harassing thoughts of Mr. Jenkins the butcher. Monday should be dedicated to the consideration of ways and means, to the begging, borrowing, or stealing that obnoxious sum of £34 5 s. shilling 4½ d. pence But to‐day I would be free from sordid cares; I would try to keep my mind clear and clean from worldly thoughts. And I was moderately successful, as far as regards the butcher. But it was a very different matter when I endeavoured to close the doors of my mind against Richard; to observe the Sabbath strictly in my heart: his image pushed the door of that sanctuary sans façon, and dwelt there, defying expulsion, during the long morning service.
All through the sermon I looked forward with childish impatience to the meeting in the churchyard, which seemed to me almost unavoidable. I pictured to myself how we three should stand in the church path under the ash tree. Papa rather grim at first, but thawing fast into his usual natural, dear old hearty manner; I, bashful and page: 102 somewhat gawky, I feared, but in the seventh heaven; and Richard!!!
"Perhaps," thought I, exultantly, "papa 'll ask him to luncheon, and if he does," subjoined cold reflection, "there's nothing but that old mutton bone." This last dismal idea lasted me through one whole head (the last one) of papa's brief and simple discourse.
"In conclusion," said my father—"in conclusion," echoed my heart, "there's nothing but the cold mutton." At the end of his usual twenty minutes, my father released us, and having pronounced the benediction, remained standing in the pulpit, putting his spectacles into their case, and eyeing somewhat hostilely the wolf in sheep's clothing that had stolen into his fold. Poor, naughty, handsome wolf! One lamb longed to go and put out a friendly paw to him; but lambs do not always know what is good for them. And then the little congregation trickled out by the two doors, and the farmers' farmer's wives shook hands among themselves, and the old women in black poke bonnets by themselves, and John Barlow slouched over to page: 103 his mother's new tombstone, and read the inscription admiringly, having composed it himself; and then they all toddled decorously down the sunny road to the village. Behind them dawdled a disconsolate dragoon, casting, ever and anon, baffled and disconsolate looks behind him.
Meanwhile I stood just within the church porch, tapping with my foot on the flags, above the buried head of another Eleanor Lestrange, chafing and fuming. It was my invariable custom to wait for my father while he took off his gown, and usually, I had only about two seconds to wait. To‐day the process of disrobing seemed a lengthier one. Perhaps it was only my angry imagination, but I could not help fancying that papa loitered purposely over his ungowning; purposely seduced old Iken into one of his long maunders.
"Toothless old nuisance," said I, stamping on Eleanor Lestrange's head harder than ever. But stamping and malediction, did not hasten the flow of old Iken's eloquence nor diminish my father's interest in it. When at length it came to a sort of stop; and my father, cheerful and chatty, and I, page: 104 disappointed and choking, sauntered down the path. The figure of Richard, diminished by distance to the height of a few inches, was slowly disappearing round the corner.
"What brought that fine fellow here to‐day, I wonder?" said my father, affably, looking after him. I made no response, but gnawed the ivory top of my parasol in a silent frenzy. There came no wolf to afternoon service at Lestrange church, and old Iken beginning another long rigamarole, was summarily repressed.


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"Coz the mum volcano was a bit of a 'ho-vol-ca-no'?"
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"So maybe Volcan Tunupa got around a bit as well...?"
The Salar de Uyuni features an amazing, unique milk
a) wow - fuck this is cool; and
b) let's take some stupid pictures.
The forever white of the Salar fucks with your sense of perspective. Fantastic if you want to take stupid photos. And who doesn't? Enormous knives, ridiculous tennis balls, too many people holding the sun, mini people where they shouldn't be, things that just aren't meant to happen. Stupid photos on the Salar? Briliant. How I managed to survive an assasination attempt with an enormous pocket knife is a story far too compicated and traumatic for me to retell now. Suffice for me to say that it may have involved an equally enormous Cheezel...
Standing grand, isolated, is an amazing cactus covered rock, floating alone in the middle of the sea of Bolivian Volcano milk. La Isla del Diablo it's called. Island of the Devil. Of the Death from Hell of Salt. I think that's what it's called anyway. And if it isn't, it should be. From the top, with the contrasts of the rich red rock, the green, menacing cactii and the exceptional white; small jeeps filled with tourists descending eupon the Devil's rock from all direction on abstract, windy roads on the Salar - it's a surreal vista. Beautiful, wondrous, not entirely of this world. Pehaps more of the world of the devil of the death from hell. Brilliant.
The Salar? Really quite amazing. And although we didn't get to see the sun rise over the Salar, or the spectacular reflection from the water covered flats in the winter, it was nonetheless brilliant. Salt flat it up I say...
Chapter II - On the Road Again...
"Vinny Grella's Mum's Jeepy Jeep Jeep Jeep is what it should be called..." Such a statement was completely lost on the Spanish, French, Danish and New Zealandish comprising our tour group
The Land Cruiser bounced along the dusty roads of Bolivia's south west, close inspection revealing it to be a Toyosa model, rather than the better known Toyota. I try and decide what is more nauseating - the suspensionless bumps of the back seat of the Jeepy Jeep Jeep Jeep or the taste of the coca leaves that I'm chewing. I resolve in favour of the coca leaves, but masticate on as I start to feel my high-altitude headache wear away. Pablo of Madrid - of previous Morocco and Toledo fame - translates that our driver hasn't had sleep for the past 2 days. Great. A massive lump of coca leaves bulges out of his cheek. Coca leaves - keep him awake and alert. Do it... Toyosa is stifling - the immense plooms of dust hovering outside making it impossible to open the windows. But through the clouds of sand, every now and then, a volcano emerges, a vivid green or red lake, or desert and rock formations direct from Dali's surrealist period, and you momentarily forget about your inability to breathe, your 3 types of nausea, that you've had no sleep and that you driver it trying to kill you - it's all about the incredible landscape which continued to be of the kind that I like to describe as 'where the fuck am I' scenery. Brilliant...
Chapter III - Long Legged Beauties
Flamingoes are strange animals. Gorgeous of course, with their elegant long legs and vibrant, beautiful pinks and whites. But what the hell are they thinking? Are they out of their mind? What kind of animal chooses to inhabit such inhospitable, desolate, nutrition-barren lands? A stupid but hot one, it seems. So, in their thousands upon thousands, the flamingoes flock to the salt lakes of southern Bolivia, in search of the finest mrco-organisns the world has to offer
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There's nothing quite like the smell of fresh sulphur in the morning. Bursting through the earth's crust in a magnificent, ominous way, more suggestive of a plane crash than a natural phenomenon
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Chapter 7: Similarity
In this chapter, we will start with a review of ratios and proportions. Second, we will introduce the concept of similarity. Two figures are similar if they have the same shape, but not the same size. We will apply similarity to polygons, quadrilaterals and triangles. Then, we will extend this concept to proportionality with parallel lines and dilations. Finally, there is an extension about self-similarity, or fractals, at the end of the chapter.
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Forms of Ratios
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Proportion Properties
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Similar Polygons and Scale Factors
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AA Similarity
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Indirect Measurement
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SSS Similarity
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SAS Similarity
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Triangle Proportionality
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Parallel Lines and Transversals
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Proportions with Angle Bisectors
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Dilation in the Coordinate Plane
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Chapter Summary
This chapter is all about proportional relationships. It begins by introducing the concept of ratio and proportion and detailing properties of proportions. It then focuses on the geometric relationships of similar polygons. Applications of similar polygons and scale factors are covered. The AA, SSS, and SAS methods of determining similar triangles are presented and the Triangle Proportionality Theorem is explored. The chapter wraps up with the proportional relationships formed when parallel lines are cut by a transversal, similarity and dilated figures, and self-similarity.
Chapter Keywords
- Ratio
- Proportion
- Means
- Extremes
- Cross-Multiplication Theorem
- Similar Polygons
- Scale Factor
- AA Similarity Postulate
- Indirect Measurement
- SSS Similarity Theorem
- SAS Similarity Theorem
- Triangle Proportionality Theorem
- Triangle Proportionality Theorem Converse
- Transformation
- Rigid Transformation
- Non-rigid Transformation
- Dilation
- Self-Similar
- Fractal
Chapter Review
- Solve the following proportions.
- \begin{align*}\frac{x+3}{3}=\frac{10}{2}\end{align*}
- \begin{align*}\frac{8}{5}=\frac{2x-1}{x+3}\end{align*}
- The extended ratio of the angle in a triangle are 5:6:7. What is the measure of each angle?
- Rewrite 15 quarts in terms of gallons.
Determine if the following pairs of polygons are similar. If it is two triangles, write why they are similar.
- Draw a dilation of \begin{align*}A(7, 2), B(4, 9),\end{align*} and \begin{align*}C(-1, 4)\end{align*} with \begin{align*}k=\frac{3}{2}\end{align*}.
Algebra Connection Find the value of the missing variable(s).
Texas Instruments Resources
In the CK-12 Texas Instruments Geometry FlexBook, there are graphing calculator activities designed to supplement the objectives for some of the lessons in this chapter. See http://www.ck12.org/flexr/chapter/9692.


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The multiday hunt in south Brooklyn for a missing celebrity parrot with an avid online following has come to an end.
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"I was just so relieved," said Mr. Sazhin of setting eyes on him. "I thought he'd be desperate to come back… but he took a little persuasion."
He said he thought "the wind drifted him out [there]–yesterday was a very very windy day."
Truman, a Brown-Necked Cape Parrot and one of three birds Mr. Sazhin owns, features in a YouTube video blog of his daily antics that has attracted thousands of viewers. He has also been backstage on "America's Got Talent" and other television and talent shows.
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Spiritualism and the séance are still practiced today, albeit in smaller numbers. Many of the practices were absorbed into New Thought, the New Age movement, and various occult traditions and orders.Donald Michael Kraig
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Thanks Steve for the words of encouragement. I have recovered though and besides, if I got down everytime you outfished me, I would be blue a lot of hte time. Besides Dave and I just got back form a trip down to Hoodsport and it is amazing what 20-30 chums can do for your psyche.
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Could not understand at first why someone of Duggans flyfishing ability did not hook up on his first days over on the Snake. Now I think I know. The 1st couple days Duggan fished the weather had turned bad and seems to change the whole fishing game over on the Snake. After he left to go do some work for his mom in Idaho the weather turned nice. When I got there the conditions were perfect and 1st light the fish were very eager to come to the surface. A lot of the runs were loaded with fish and easy to hook for the first trip or two down through the run. After 3 or 4 fish jumping and running the rest of fish get real careful or move to new holding water. Also when jet boats show up and back drift then roar up river to do it again really puts fish down. After 3 good days of weather and 9 fished caught and lots more to the fly things changed. A low pressure system moved in and nothing, even noticed that the jet boats went fishless early. Talked with Bob Black who was one of the first to flyfish the the Snake some 45 or 50 years ago and he feels that the lows trigger the fish to move quikly up river and they never hold up in the runs. I think he is right on. Durring good weather maybe fish move at night then hold durring the day. Once a Steelhead is in a holding area he becomes very territorial and will move to a fly on the surface. Last day on the river the weather turning ugly I went down through a run twice on top and not even a bump I resorted to the evil sink tip and not even a bump then.
So Duggan I think you just picked bad fishing days to be on the Snake. After many years on that river I've realized fishing can be real hot or real cold and when it's cold it's time to hang out in camp and enjoy the view and have a beer or two with bacon and eggs cooked on an open fire.
RE:Snake River Trip Report
Duggan -
Spoken to the true essence of steelheading! If it weren't so hard I don't think we'd love it so much. We'd just fish for chum (actually, I even like chum!)
Eric -
If I have my way I'll be on the Cow tomorrow PM and Thursday dawn. Has the U got you captive?
RE:Snake River Trip Report
Great read even if few fish. Thanks for the post!
Snake River Trip Report
Well I stand before you as a humbled man. I left last Wednesday after work from Seattle and after driving most of the night, arrived at the river around 3:00 AM. After a couple of hours of sleep, I was soon swinging a purple spey fly through a favorite run. A friend from Spokane met me about 8:00 and we fished the entire day with only one brief grab without hookup to show for it. This included a mid-day run up to the mouth of the Ronde where I was quickly reminded how rude some flyfishers can be. After being low holed already by one person, I reeled in and left once his buddy low holed me so close that my swing came dangerously close to his legs. To top it off, both these kind gentlemen were casting and stepping UPRIVER.
Friday brought a nice drizzle and met another friend at daylight and we went off to fish a great looking run closer to Asotin. I was rewarded here with a nice rise to the fly but no take and I couldn't convince the fish to return. After neither of us could bring a fish up, I left to drive the 60 miles to my mom's place to help get her house ready for the coming winter.
I was back on the river Saturday afternoon fishing with my good friend Bunnyleech's father Clark. Saturday afternoon and evening once again yielded no fish. At camp that night we met up with my friend Steve (October Caddis here on the board) and were treated to his tales of fish conquest from the last couple of days. Just in case we doubted his success, he treated us to a dinner of fire grilled steelhead steaks. Coupled with the venison that Clark cooked up, we were in heaven.
Sunday morning dawned with Clark and I fishing a nice riffle above camp while Steve headed upriver to one of his favorites. Two hours later Steve was back with a reports of four more fish to hand and a couple in the cooler. I had a brief hookup that I failed to sustain after the fish ran right at me and my high speed stripping proved unsatisfactory. Once the wind came up, we decided it was done for the morning and we broke camp and headed home.
I of course drove over with high hopes and drove home with some disapointment. My feelings were due more to my hubris for expecting multi-fish days than to any lack of success. The fish gods can be fickle and sometimes the smell of skunk can be rewarding in its own way. After all, I had spent parts of four days on a great river, chasing its many fish, learning some new water and getting to spend time and cast lines with many a good friend. Only 360 days until next year.
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THIS SEASON: Senior Kasey Carlson, an 11-time career All-American and a 2009-10 U.S. national team member, is the Pac-12's defending champion in the 100y breast who will challenge for conference and NCAA crowns in that as well as in the sprint frees. She is also a mainstay on USC's relays. She is USC's record holder in the 50y and 100y free and is part of four relay records.
2013: Carlson was a four-time All-American as a 2013 junior, highlighted by a second-place finish in the 100y breast (58.36) and a seventh-place in the 50y free (22.06). Her time in the 100y breast, a PR, made her the second-fastest Trojan ever in the race and was 0.73 back of Olympian Breeja Larson. It was USC's top finish in the race since Rebecca Soni won the 2009 NCAA title in the event. She also helped USC to sixth-place finishes in the 200y free and 200y medley relays (both relays broke school records). USC's appearance in the 200y free relay final was its first since 1999 ... At the 2013 Pac-12 Championships, Carlson won the 100y breast with a 59.22 for her first career conference title after posting a 58.92 in prelims. She also tied for third in the 50y free (22.22) and seventh in the 100y free (48.96). She also was part of USC's second-place and then-school-record setting 200y free relay (1:28.50) and Troy's second-place 200y medley relay (1:36.41) ... At the 2013 U.S. Summer Nationals, she was fourth in the 50m breast (31.17), sixth in the `B' final of the 100m breast (1:09.87) and 30th in the 100m free (56.42) ... She earned 2013 Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention honors for the second year in a row ... She was fourth in both the 50y free and the 100y breast (59.10) at the 2012 U.S. Winter Nationals and was fifth in the 200y breast (2:11.57).
2012: Carlson was a three-time All-American as a 2012 sophomore, helping USC to second in the 400y medley relay and eighth in the 200y medley and 400y free relays ... At the 2012 Pac-12 Championships, she reached the final of the 100y breast for the second year in a row, taking third in 1:00.09. She was also 12th in the 50y free (22.77) and 14th in the 200y breast (2:15.70) ... Carlson had a huge meet at the Texas Invitational in December. She set a personal best in winning the 100y breast in 58.46, approaching Rebecca Soni's school record of 58.10 (the NCAA record is 58.06). She also broke her own record in the 50y free in 22.10 (since broken) ... At the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, Carlson was 33rd in the 100m breast (1:10.54) and also raced in the 50m and 100m free ... She was fourth in both the 50y free and the 100y breast (59.10) at the 2012 U.S. Winter Nationals and was fifth in the 200y breast (2:11.57) ... She earned 2012 Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention honors.
2011: Carlson was a four-time All-American as a 2011 freshman, taking fourth in the 100y breast (59.29) and fifth in the 50y free (22.13, PR) at the 2011 NCAA Championships, the latter time a USC record. She also helped Troy to second in the 400y medley relay and third in the 200y medley relay, also in school record times. Carlson scored individually in a third event, taking 14th in the 100y free (48.59) and helped Troy earn points in the 200y and 400y free relay ... Carlson was a two-time finalist at the 2011 Pac-10 Championships, finishing second in the 100y breast (59.12) and fifth in the 50y free (22.39). Her breaststroke time made her the second-fastest Trojan ever in the 100y breast behind record-setter Rebecca Soni. She was also 12th in the 100y free (49.75) and helped USC to second-place finishes in both medley relays ... At the 2010 Short Course Nationals, she helped USC to titles in the 200y free and 400y medley relays.
HIGH SCHOOL: Carlson prepped at Las Lomas High in Walnut Creek, Calif., where she was the Contra Costa Times 2008-2009 Athlete of the Year and the 2008-2010 Swimmer of the Year ... She had huge success in high school, reaching the medal stand at the 2009 FINA World Championships with a third-place swim in the 100m breast, not to mention a sixth-place finish in the 50m breast ... She earned her spot on the 2009 U.S. team after finishing second in the 100m breast at the 2009 National Championships ... Carlson, a member of the U.S. Junior National team from 2006-08, was third in the 50m free and first in the 400m medley relay at the 2009 Junior Pac Pacific Championships, placed first in the 100m breast at the 2008 Junior Nationals and was first in the 50m breast at the 2008 World Youth Games ... She is the national high school record holder in the 100y breast and the NAG record holder in the 100m breast (1:05.75).
CLUB/COACH: Walnut Creek Aquabears/Mike Heaney.
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Brisbane, QLD, Australia 1937
"Mayfair: Fresh Cut, 2 Frog Poems and a Rose for William Neaves" 1998
Dulux weathershield acrylic on two boards
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PF MacPherson's work I have looked at for a long, long time. This particular work; I've never really looked upon it as being an image of a vase of flowers. To me this is very much a painting about painting. I mean, there's the whole history of the Black Square. To me this is a painting about mark-making, and what it is that an artist does.
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And there's no point in this painting that MacPherson lets you get away from the fact that you can see the board through it; you can see the rather clumsy; the rather direct movement of paint — there's no attempt to follow edges; it's a very wilful painting.
There's so much movement here, and ideas about what the painting either is becoming. Is it becoming a flower painting, or is it becoming a Black Square?
This sort of very tenuous hold, and how an object; a painting, can, at the lick of a brush, change completely. This particular work is, again, at that moment — where there's at least a double potential of what it might become.
So something which is so sort of still, and crude, is to me a very sophisticated; a very intellectual debate about the very nature of the thing that we are looking at, which I think, is one of the things which great art can, and needs to, and does address.


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While working for the Paris-Orléans railway during the 1860s, Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin was actively involved in the leading artistic circles. These two realms – the heady cafés and bars of the Parisian avant-garde and the steam and steel of the rail yard – come together exquisitely in Guillaumin's work. Guillaumin, the son of a working-class family and always interested in the spaces inhabited and used by the working class, was drawn toward the depiction of the new residential and industrial areas on the outskirts of a rapidly expanding Paris.
Guillaumin's concern was how to represent the new spaces on the fringes of Paris. He shows them as places of dislocation, uncertainty and ambiguity, where conventional distinctions between urban and rural, city and country are no longer clear. The painter's short, punchy brushstrokes for the description of the path and vegetation, the difference in handling of paint for the modelling of the figure and the awkwardly placed, straggly tree give an image to these conditions.


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On July 29, 2002, a pod of 55 pilot whales swimming in Cape Cod Bay stranded themselves on a Cape beach. Rescuers descended and managed to save 46 of the whales, cheering happily as they swam back out to open sea. A day later, however, the rescued whales returned, beaching themselves again, 25 miles eastward. In the end, the entire pod died.
Nobody knows why pilot whales routinely strand on beaches. One theory is that they are sick, or one member is sick and the other members of the tightly cohesive pod follow it ashore. They may become confused by currents and strand accidentally when the tides go out on the vast, shallow tidal flats of Cape Cod Bay. A local theory places the blame on a change to the landscape caused by the Cape's constant shifting of sands. Thousands of years ago Blackfish Creek, now a small creek running into a salt marsh near where the bulk of the recent pod finally died, was an open waterway slicing through the arm of the Cape and connecting the bay to the open ocean to the south. Is it possible that an evolutionary memory sends the whales there with the information that they can take a shortcut to the ocean? Nobody knows, but it is a question Cape Codders have asked for years, most notably when 1,500 pilot whales stranded and died at Blackfish Creek in 1884. In fact, "blackfish" is another name for the pilot whale, and this location got its name from the frequency of strandings here.
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This is a super simple recipe you can make on a cold winter day and it will warm our soul! It's an old family chicken soup recipe I got from my mom back in 1987. It works great with any kind of fowl! The last batch I made was a big one - 18 qts! I used chicken, turkey, and and wild turkey in that recipe. I'll give the basic ingredients my mom gave me and you can adjust the quantities to suit the size of your batch of soup. If anyone is interested in the amounts of each ingredient for the big batch I made, let me know and I'll post that here, too.
Wild Turkey Dumpling Soup
D2's notes: My mother-in-law has a habit of saving potato water in the freezer for soup. I must say it is a great idea and makes excellent soup stock. We sometimes save water from other veggies, too. The last batch of soup I made included lots of potato water, carrot/broccoli water, and a cool whip container of clear tomato juice from yellow tomatoes from our garden. Also included a big yogurt container of my mother-in-law's famous Thanksgiving turkey gravy! Mmmmm! Another tip is to save all your chicken and turkey scraps and carcasses including necks and other undesirable parts in the freezer until your ready to make a batch of soup. Simmer the fowl pieces for an hour. Scrape off the meat and discard the bones and skin.
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Onion (chopped)
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What Are Unintended Consequences of Universal Pre-K?
Universal access to high-quality and free preschool education seems an ambition that would have few challengers. But new research shows that such programs can yield unexpected consequences, not all necessarily favorable.
In findings presented Thursday at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, authors Elizabeth Cascio of Dartmouth and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach of Northwestern spelled out how access to free public preschools has different effects on low-income and high income families.
In their paper, "The Impacts of Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool Education," the authors compared employment, income and time benchmarks for four-year-olds and their families across the U.S. with those for children and families in Georgia and Oklahoma. Both states have offered public preschooling to all four-year-olds, regardless of family income, since 1995 and 1998, respectively.
President Barack Obama has advocated for universal access to public preschool education, and sketched out aspects of a national program in his most recent State of the Union address.
The analysis by Ms. Cascio and Ms. Schanzenbach found that mothers with less education and income are more likely to enroll their children in preschool if it is free. They also found that among college-educated mothers, the offer of free preschool education tended not to raise enrollment levels but rather shift them — to public from private schools. The authors estimate that about half the four-year-olds — of college-educated mothers — who enrolled in a national public preschool program would come from private preschools. This translates into potential good news and bad news, the researchers say. "On one hand, these findings would appear to suggest that an untargeted national preschool program would result in substantial crowd-out, driving up costs and limiting program efficacy. On the other hand, the presence of higher-income children in the universal preschool classrooms in Georgia and Oklahoma — which may help to attract better teachers or have direct human capital spillovers for lower-income children — may be what truly makes these programs 'high quality.'"
All told, the benefits of free preschool to higher-income and better-educated families appear to be largely financial. Parents who put their children in the free program rather than a private preschool would save between $3,300 and $5,600, the authors estimate. The advantages in other areas, such as maternal employment and children's subsequent academic achievement in grade school appear to be negligible for higher-income families.
The benefits of public preschool for lower-income families appear broader, yet far from clear-cut. With preschool standing in for child care, a free national program presumably would permit some mothers to return to the work force or take on more hours. But the authors found just "some evidence of an increase in the probability of working among lower-education mothers" — and only in the first few years of the public preschool program.
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"Fire…goooood" "Totally competitive." That was Jerry Jones off-the-cuff take on Dez Bryant after the "passion(ate)" one suffered his team through an extended brat-a-thon in closing seconds of another Cowboys fade-out, this time in Detroit, losing a nail-bitter, 31-30. I see Jerry's point. Fire can be good, when it's managed, controlled. Even Frankenstein knew that much. And th...


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TV preview: Film draws on architect Hornbostel's love for PittsburghNovember 19, 2013 7:03 PM
Henry Hornbostel created classical buildings filled with sumptuous sculptural interiors. The College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, Rodef Shalom synagogue and the monumental Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall are among the local landmarks that flowed from his imagination.
He had a national reputation, too -- 22 of his structures are on the National Register of Historic Places. Architects and historians know Hornbostel's work. Now, people who have often walked through some of the 70 Pittsburgh buildings or private homes he designed may truly appreciate this native New Yorker, who also was an ardent traveler, a dapper dresser, an animal lover and a lifelong party animal.
American Ark Films, a local company, has produced an excellent documentary called "Henry Hornbostel: In Architecture and Legacy" that airs at 10 p.m. Friday and noon Sunday on WQED. Scripted by Greg Rempel and smoothly narrated by Pittsburgh native Tamara Tunie, this 58-minute homage to Hornbostel employs a lineup of renowned architects and architectural historians to recount his long, productive life. Before his death at age 94 in 1961, "Mr. Architecture," as he was known in Pittsburgh, had left his distinctive stamp on Downtown, two university campuses in Oakland, North Park and South Park, plus private homes in the East End.
The son of a wealthy stockbroker, Hornbostel was born in Brooklyn, attended Columbia University in 1887-91 and studied architecture at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
In 1904, Hornbostel won the commission to design the campus of Carnegie Institute of Technology's campus. His plan was chosen from more than 40 entries, and construction began in 1905. In 1907, he designed the Hell Gate Bridge in New York, the largest steel-arch bridge in the world at the time.
Hornbostel came to Pittsburgh to supervise construction of the Carnegie Tech campus and stayed to establish the school of architecture, serving as its first dean. He created the School of Applied Design building, now the College of Fine Arts. The ornate entrance to his former office is modeled after the City Hall of Toulon in France.
Len Caric, the film's producer, said Hornbostel "wanted a part of the building to look like him." How many architects can boast that a stone mason carved their face into Bacchus, the god of wine? The bust is part of the College of Fine Arts' entry portal.
Hornbostel also started the Beaux Arts Ball, an annual themed costume party famed for its bacchanalian excess. Students enjoyed Hornbostel's sense of fun. Jennie Benford, a former CMU archivist, recalls that when Hornbostel's pet monkey died, students held an elaborate funeral procession across campus and buried it in Schenley Park.
Besides his joie de vivre, Hornbostel's strengths included an ability to site buildings on hilly, oddly shaped plots of land, a passion for employing local artists, and his dramatic use of Guastavino tile on the underside of a stairway in Baker Hall and at the entrance to Hamerschlag Hall.
One of the film's great visual treats is seeing actual footage of this flamboyant man, who drove a Packard convertible, accompanied by his beloved collie in the front seat. The film opens with him emerging from his home in Harwinton, Conn., where he lived after retiring in 1939. Dressed in a trench coat and sporting his trademark white Van Dyke beard, he could be a spy in a John le Carre novel.
During the concluding minutes, there is footage of outdoor birthday parties at a 100-acre farm called The Elms, the Connecticut home he restored with his second wife, Mabelle Weston, a Peabody High School teacher who was 30 years his junior. The couple married in 1935 after Hornbostel's first wife died. Many Pittsburghers traveled to Connecticut to attend these annual gatherings; the party footage belonged to Hornbostel's great nephew, Tom Schoenemann of Harwinton, Conn.
"He gave us the master film. We had it redone," said Mr. Caric, adding that Brady Lewis at Pittsburgh Filmmakers helped him find a way to restore the old movies.
Re-enactments that show Hornbostel as a young man were staged at Hartwood Acres, and local actor Matthew Kroh portrays the young Hornbostel with plenty of verve. Mr. Caric plays Hornbostel's partner, George Palmer. The two men are shown playing checkers and toasting their success in winning the competition to design Carnegie Tech's campus.
Some viewers may find these re-enactments amusing or distracting. The attempt to convey Hornbostel's lighthearted nature verges on silliness when Mr. Kroh plays Hornbostel at age 50 but hasn't aged a whit.
Paying tribute to Hornbostel's eclectic ways of employing classical forms are architectural historian Barry Bergdoll and internationally known architects Michael Graves and Mack Scogin.
Mr. Scogin designed CMU's Gates Center for Computer Science and Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies.
Robert A.M. Stern, dean of Yale's school of architecture, observes that Hornbostel's design for the Hell Gate Bridge represents a great example of "the architecture of infrastructure."
Adding context and nuance to Hornbostel's story are local architect David Vater, who co-edited a 2002 book about Hornbostel written by the late Walter Kidney.
Charles Rosenblum, a teacher at CMU who did his doctoral dissertation on Hornbostel, and Martin Aurand, an architectural archivist at CMU, outline Hornbostel's role in the City Beautiful movement and his national reputation.
Ms. Benford sums up Hornbostel's career by noting that he never sold Pittsburgh short.
Given the breadth of this architect's contributions to our cityscape, that's a statement viewers can easily agree with.
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Cascade Season Winding down...
With this being the last steelhead weekend before closures in Washington's Cascade River systems, I would imagine at 6:35 am PST most of not all are prying the nooks and crannies of every decent run right about now.
As far as all reports would indicate, it seems like it's been a heck of a late winter push and if there were any rain or water to speak of there would probably be a tremendous number of big nates in the rivers right now. Makes one wonder if the run predictions were on target, but that's another story. As many have said, it won't hurt to give the fish a break either.
I hope the PNW gang has a stellar weekend, enjoying the river with good friends, finding that magic connection to wild steelhead on a fly - nothing like it! I'm sure some will find some time during the week to say goodbye to what started out as a hot spring fishery. I know those would be three days I'd take off.
On the bright side, maybe I'll get those steelhead swap flies now <VBG>. Have a great closer, maybe I'll see you out on the OP next month.
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The Upper Skagit and Sauk were FILLED with anglers in every pool today. There wasn't one run I wanted to fish that didn't have at least 1 angler already in it. Looking for new water, I headed downstream to find the Grandy Creek run.
You can imagine my suprise when I reached the Baker River in Concrete and found that, far from being blocked off as PugetPower had threatened, it was pumping large amounts of white mud into the Skagit - enought to completely blow it out downstream.
I continued south, deciding at the last minute to head to the Sky to see if anyone was in my favorite low water run. Nobody was there, but the weather was a stark contrast from that in the Skagit valley - bluebird weather instead of broken clouds and showers. Deciding to fish anyway, I spent a pleasant couple hours swinging an assortment of flies through the riffle.
It was a perfect afternoon for pictures, so I shot a bunch with the new water-resistant digital I'd bought and they turned out well (wallpaper for work <g>. Talked to a few boaters - 1 plugpuller had lost a fish, but the rest had drawn blanks.
Now for the Peninsula - all I've heard have been Outstanding Reports from over there! Guys have been getting fish in the Hoh, Duc, and Bogie. Sounds like one of the best returns in recent years, so I'll be happy to point my rig west ASAP.
Juro - get out here if you can - those fish are seriously snarfing flies over there!
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After all my grumbling about the winter the season is already promising to be action packed. I will either do the OP in March or go with Smitty to the Great lakes. Same amount of time, the issue is airfare or gas.
April - late April I hope to visit the Florida Keys, but that may go into May. May 12th-ish is the spring kick-off clave on Cape Cod, and the meister Jeff Roop informs me that I must stay with the boyz even if my family is down the cape for that weekend. I'm in deep doodoo.
Late May is Luis Nasim's visit to the salty side of the FF universe, hopefully I will convince Steve Moore that this canuck needs to be intiated in the ways of the brine on Slamdance.
As soon as the fish make the bathtub in the Monomoy "archipelago" I am flats bound. If you can make it out in June, I'd do it. There will be snarfin' going on here too. Either that or fall. Your July visit last year was OK but June and September are on a whole different level.
It's looking like a Housatonic river trip is in the cards, and if all goes well I would like this to be the year I see the Gaspe.
Anyway, my point is I need to distribute my brownie points carefully thru the season but a jump to the OP is not out of the question in March. The Hoh, Sol Duc, upper Bogey, calls!
Whatever happens, I will not miss the fall trip in the northwest. I liked what Tyler was suggesting last time we spoke.
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Well Juro my spring break begins around the 15th of March. If I can get away, you know where I will be.
I want to spend half the time on the Upper Hoko fishing a river I have wanted to fish for years. The next half will be spent on the Queets and the Clearwater. Hopefully I will get some fishies, learn some new water and have one hell of a spring break. The typical college kid get drunk and party 24/7 just does not sound very appealing to me.
Hope to see this March, maybe we can fish a day or two?
Ryan S. Petzold
aka Sparkey and/or Special
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Fished the Skagit hard both Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday we put in at Hamilton and fished the middle section for about 8 hours. River was very silty from the Baker. Heard of one fish taken.
Sunday, put in at Concrete and fished the river from Sauk bar down to S&L. Nothing. Baker river pouring more crap into the Skagit making the middle and lower river unfishable. Three of us pounded the river for over 10 hours. Both arms are sore today.
The end of a good year. I caught the biggest steelhead of my life this year. No complaints.
Heading north to BC. First, the Vedder. Then?
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Thank God for the Vedder.
A shorter drive then the Coast and God knows I am not heading over to Forks without a gun and really big buddy after one certain little incident.
Ryan S. Petzold
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I know that incident. I really don't think you have anything to worry about. Some have to much time on thier hands. You probably read my last post........"nobody cares". I would head over to the pen with you at any time. And if you would feel safer I know a guy that goes about 6'5", around 240 and is slightly crazy if you know what I mean. He lives life large and is a good fly fisherman.
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Did I hear Vedder? The Vedder?!!! Be serious please. If you want to find bubbas and mouth-breathers - Canadian style - go for it. While there are lots of fish, including large "1st generation" hatchery fish the number of gear fishing bozos is mind boggling. While there are a number of ethical classy gear guys up here in Canada even THEY do not like to fish the Vedder. Hordes of hip-booted speed bumps line the runs, they do not move and think that 10 feet of space on either side of a fly guy is plenty of room. As well, the mouth breathers have learned to transfer knowledge (yes as unlikley as it seems) from the the Fraser River sockeye-flossing gong show and large sectors of the Vedder are repleat with these "sportsmen" flossing for steelhead! This is not my idea of a quality experience.
Having said this, maybe the run-off will not be bad and the river will remain fishable during the May fly-only season! We will just have to wait.
Tight lines - tyler.
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The Vedder sounds like the BC version of the Cowlitz!
So, I went looking around to read about this "incident" and couldn't find it - care to fill me in please? My curiosity's got me on this one.
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Hey Kush,
The Vedder is only about a hour and a half drive from home. I have never been there. A good friend and I thought, for the short drive, it might be worth a shot. From what I hear you say we should stay home until the fly season starts. This true?
Ryan can explain "The Incident" to you. I find it somewhat humorous. He might not.
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Ahh yes, "The Incident."
At the infamous NWFishing.com BB, frequently visited by Jim Mansfield and Guy Ruble, two bonk 'em, fillet 'em, all the better if they are natives type guides. In fact Jim Mansfield writes a column for NWFishing.com and promotes his guide service off the site.
Anyways, someone posted that he had spend some time in jail for robbery, whether this is true or not, I dont know.
I was named as the poster because the IP was traced to the UW, where I attend.
Jim then posted many times that he was going to send all his lawyers after me and that I had better apologize, etc. etc. etc. He also said that the next time I visit Forks, "we need to sit down for coffee." Jim is a big grumpy mean born and raised Forks local yocal.
I was described as a young punk kid and well there are not many young punk kids that fish. My recently bleached hair does not help me either.
So now you can see why I am a little nervous about making a trip out to Forks. Jimmy has a following out there and Im sure they all know the name "Ryan S. Petzold" by now. God knows I am bringing alot of cash on my trip out there.
Things are looking up as of tonight, though. A couple of good customers of ours at Teds fish with Jimmy all the time. They promised me that when they fish with him in two weeks they would tell him "Im not a bad guy" and that I would never do anything like that.
I can not wait for Spring Break and if anyone would like to do some exploring of the Upper Hoko, you are free to join me.
...and I did not hit any fish yesterday on the North Fork. The lower river is as clear as I have ever seen it, including summer, but it will be closed.
Ryan S. Petzold
aka Sparkey and/or Special
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Hey Ryan,
There are a lot of hot tempers on the OP - make judgements first and ask questions later!! A well-known fly guide (no longer on the OP from what Bob tells me) used to pack a 45 automatic on his hip while on the river.
Anyway, it sounds like your friends have the right idea - once they talk to him your car/truck's projected lifespan will increase considerably!
Good luck on the Hoko - if I can get a few days off, you might just run into me up there.
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Don't count me out yet either.
Ryan - I'm no bodyguard but maybe I can yell a few karate words (about all I'm good for) while we figure out a hasty exit!
Too bad about the way people flame up like that. If Syd was still around in Forks, he'd tell us kids to shake hands!
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Is it worth it to try the Vedder? A tough question in some ways. There is a fair amount of good fly water and there are definitely lots of fish, however as I previously pointed out the quality of the experience is definitely suspect! While I know some fly guys who regularly fish the Vedder through the winter they tend to live fairly close to the river and normally limit their fishing to short prime time excursions to pet holes ( as well, I don't think any self respecting fisherman could take a WHOLE day at that zoo!). While I only live 15 minutes closer to the river than you do I did grow up fishing the Vedder, but I now average about 3 hours a year fishing it - I just can't stand the "new" ethic that exists there.
As for the Fly-Only season in May, this often sounds better than it really is. This is due primarily to the common run-off pattern that sees the river go out very early in May often negating the so-called 2nd season. In those years that the vagarities of run-off leave the river fishable it can be wonderful, the pressure is low, there are significant numbers of fish and it is a beautiful river. So like I said, I will just wait and see. If YOU can't wait, by all means come on up and experience some Canadian hospitality - "Vedder-style" - though fist-fights have been known to happen at least you won't see or need guns!
Tight lines - tyler.
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Thanks Kush,
Because of the short distance and travel time we will likely give the Vedder a try. The promise of no gun play is definitely a bonus. I have never seen a weapon produced while fishing. I do know that at least a few boats on the Skagit are armed and likely a few of the bank anglers too.
We have a small river close by that has a decent king run in late summer. One of the last places to fish for kings, this small river attracts a less than desirable crowd. I have found ways to fish that removes me from the masses although I visit this river less and less each year. Perhaps for the same reasons you have for spending less time at the Vedder. At the very least it is sometimes entertaining to watch what I term combat fishing. And yes true combat does occur on the rare occasion. The real sadness comes when the crowds leave and leave their mess also. In time the river will be closed to fishing because of the mess and the unethical techniques employed to catch fish. I fail to understand the mentality that has to catch fish at any cost.
Thanks again,
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