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Fly Fishing, it is an addiction indeed

May 10, 2008

I first began fly fishing some thirty one years ago. Admittedly at first, it was a challenge. I read book after book, and watched VCR film after VCR film. As soon as the Rocky Mountain News came out on the days that the Outdoors column was published, I was glued to the article, and just had to have whatever supper slam dunk fly that Bill Logan wrote about that week.
After all was said and done though. I ended up catching various sunfish from the local ponds as I perfected my madness, if not methodology. Casting on a stream was, well, things just didn’t work very well.
What was wrong? I have come to learn that the problem was one familiar to most people at some time or other. I was all gung ho! I had no patience. I beat the water to a pulp.

Fly fishing is, to me, a form of hunting. Think you can bag a bull Elk stomping all over the place? Not very likely. Or a Whitetail Buck while thrashing all over? Again, not likely. In fly fishing, you need to keep the sun in your face, least you cast shadows before you that spook the fish. It is akin to keeping the wind in your face while stalking a Mule Deer, or most other animals that are hunted.

I learned to settle down one day while casting to trout in Boulder Creek, in the oxbow ares about two miles west of the city of Boulder, Colorado. The fly I used was very much like the one pictured above, it is a gray bodied Elk Hair caddis pattern. I fell into a rhythm, and so did the fish. That day was a true lesson in catch and return fishing. Some people that were watching me while they picnicked along side the river said that they counted more than thirty fish that I returned unharmed to the water.

Since then, Sedge flies have been a favorite of mine for surface fishing, along with Adams patterns. If, however, you come to Colorado to catch fish, plan on fishing nymphs. Top water hits are the icing on the cake. Think about it though. Just how much of the cake is frosting? How much is below?

If you should happen to get bitten by the fly fishing bug, do not despair, just get another fly rod…

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Trojan Horses and Politics

May 10, 2008

Sometimes while looking around the Internet you find work that truly expresses what someone, or a lot of people know to be the truth, but were afraid, or not quite exasperated enough to actually post publicly about. Enjoy…

By Lee Duigon
May 7, 2008Do you think the Trojan horse trick would have worked if the Greeks had only built a framework of a horse, with some scaffolds in it? Would the Trojans have been fooled if they could have seen the enemy soldiers, in full armor, sitting inside the wooden skeleton?

Of course not. The Trojans may have lost the war, but they weren’t flaming stupid.

But the American people, in this year’s presidential election, are expected to haul a see-through Trojan horse into the White House. There are three Trojan horses out there: three candidates whose estimation of the voters’ intelligence is so low, they’ve hardly bothered to disguise themselves. Or maybe they’re as stupid, all three of them, as they think we are.

Consider Hillary Clinton, one of the worst politicians we have ever seen. Somehow she got away with putting on a one-woman minstrel show in front of an African-American audience: “Ah don’ feel bah no means taahred” must be the historic nadir of campaign speechifying. Now she panders to the working class, yapping about her experiences on “the night shift”—the only night shift she was ever on was in the Clinton war room, squelching bimbo eruptions—knocking back boilermakers, and pretending to chew tobacco. Obviously she has a mental image of Mrs. Ordinary America as some kind of Mammy Yokum type, clumping around in oversized boots with a corncob pipe clenched between what’s left of her teeth.

Hillary’s rival, Barack Obama, surely shares that vision. He’s the one who thinks you’re all out there “bitterly clinging” to your guns and your religion because Uncle Sam neglected to tuck you in and tell you a bedtime story.

Obama has another see-through Trojan horse. Sitting inside it with him are such frothing-at-the-mouth leftists as the Rev. Jeremiah “God d*** America” Wright and former Weathermen terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn, whose likeness was last seen gracing an FBI poster in our local post office. They expect the besotted voters to drag this horse into the White House. Then they can all climb out and bedevil America with slavery reparations, sodomite “marriage,” appeasement of Islamic suicide bombers, and more new taxes than you ever dreamed existed.

The third candidate who presumes on your stupidity is the GOP’s see-through Trojan horse, John McCain. One would think, with the torrent of hate, hysteria, and hee-haws flowing out of the Democrats’ campaigns, that all McCain has to do to win is to press a strip of duct tape over his mouth and not take it off until the morning after Election Day. But asking a senator not to blurt out tomfooleries is like asking Old Faithful not to erupt.

Who’s sitting with McCain in his see-through Trojan horse? An army of twenty or thirty million illegal aliens! Be prepared, America, to melt down those Capitol Hill switchboards several times a year, if he gets in.

It’s funny, isn’t it? If you’re a pacifist appeasement monkey and “world citizen,” you’ve got a presidential candidate. If you’re an abortionist, or just a fan of abortion, you’ve got two presidential candidates. If you’re a gay activist, you’ve got two and a half. If you’re a tree-hugging, global warming Kool-aid drinker, or an illegal alien who thinks a couple dozen American states ought to be given back to Mexico, you have three candidates. If you’re any kind of far-out fringie, you’ve got at least one horse in this race.

But if you’re just an everyday, workaday, decent conservative American, of whom there are more than any other kind of voter, you don’t have a presidential candidate.

All you’ve got is a choice among three senators who don’t think you’re smart enough to see through a see-through Trojan horse.

 

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