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Bill Kiene
September 1st, 2004, 04:55 PM
Greetings fellow flyfishermen!

I'm like to enlist your help in cleaning up one of Norther California's most
visited flyfishing streams -- the Lower Yuba. As part of the California
Coastal Cleanup Day on September 18th, 2004, from 9am-12:00pm, volunteers
from all over will converge on the greater Yuba Watershed to clean up trash,
recyclables, and whatever else we might encounter. I'm hoping to muster the
flyfishing community to get out to the Parks Bar Bridge site and clean up
one of the areas of the river we use the most - the Lower Yuba.

All CleanUp volunteers are invited to a barbeque celebration afterwards at
Memorial Park in Grass Valley featuring food, some quality live music, and,
importantly, beer. It's a great way to get out and do some good for the
river. Also, karmically speaking, it can only enhance your chances of
multiple hookups the next time you visit the river .

All volunteers must pre-register. So please send me an email at
. I'll need the names (and ages if under 18) of all
volunteers.

If you would like to volunteer for one of the many other sites in the Yuba
watershed, please contact Kayle Martin, SYRCL RiverAssistant at
(530)265-5961 x 201 )

Hoping to see a bunch of you out there!

- Sid Heaton



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cruxgems
September 2nd, 2004, 12:33 AM
"Bill Kiene" > wrote in message >...
> Greetings fellow flyfishermen!
>
> I'm like to enlist your help in cleaning up one of Norther California's most
> visited flyfishing streams -- the Lower Yuba.

You should have seen that gravel bar on the Yuba, below the bridge
on Hwy.20 below Narrows dam seventy years ago, Sid. Probably 75
prospectors camped there each summer. I'm sure it's a lot more
sanitary now than then. My Grandfather used to go down and talk with
some of the old-timers camped there. I'm pushing 80 now, and use to
play softball in Memorial park in the '30's.

cruxgems
September 2nd, 2004, 12:33 AM
"Bill Kiene" > wrote in message >...
> Greetings fellow flyfishermen!
>
> I'm like to enlist your help in cleaning up one of Norther California's most
> visited flyfishing streams -- the Lower Yuba.

You should have seen that gravel bar on the Yuba, below the bridge
on Hwy.20 below Narrows dam seventy years ago, Sid. Probably 75
prospectors camped there each summer. I'm sure it's a lot more
sanitary now than then. My Grandfather used to go down and talk with
some of the old-timers camped there. I'm pushing 80 now, and use to
play softball in Memorial park in the '30's.

B J Conner
September 2nd, 2004, 12:59 AM
A day? Your going to do that in a day? I admire your optimism.

"Bill Kiene" > wrote in message
. com...
> Greetings fellow flyfishermen!
>
> I'm like to enlist your help in cleaning up one of Norther California's
most
> visited flyfishing streams -- the Lower Yuba. As part of the California
> Coastal Cleanup Day on September 18th, 2004, from 9am-12:00pm, volunteers
> from all over will converge on the greater Yuba Watershed to clean up
trash,
> recyclables, and whatever else we might encounter. I'm hoping to muster
the
> flyfishing community to get out to the Parks Bar Bridge site and clean up
> one of the areas of the river we use the most - the Lower Yuba.
>
> All CleanUp volunteers are invited to a barbeque celebration afterwards at
> Memorial Park in Grass Valley featuring food, some quality live music,
and,
> importantly, beer. It's a great way to get out and do some good for the
> river. Also, karmically speaking, it can only enhance your chances of
> multiple hookups the next time you visit the river .
>
> All volunteers must pre-register. So please send me an email at
> . I'll need the names (and ages if under 18) of all
> volunteers.
>
> If you would like to volunteer for one of the many other sites in the Yuba
> watershed, please contact Kayle Martin, SYRCL RiverAssistant at
> (530)265-5961 x 201 )
>
> Hoping to see a bunch of you out there!
>
> - Sid Heaton
>
>
>
> --
>
>

B J Conner
September 2nd, 2004, 12:59 AM
A day? Your going to do that in a day? I admire your optimism.

"Bill Kiene" > wrote in message
. com...
> Greetings fellow flyfishermen!
>
> I'm like to enlist your help in cleaning up one of Norther California's
most
> visited flyfishing streams -- the Lower Yuba. As part of the California
> Coastal Cleanup Day on September 18th, 2004, from 9am-12:00pm, volunteers
> from all over will converge on the greater Yuba Watershed to clean up
trash,
> recyclables, and whatever else we might encounter. I'm hoping to muster
the
> flyfishing community to get out to the Parks Bar Bridge site and clean up
> one of the areas of the river we use the most - the Lower Yuba.
>
> All CleanUp volunteers are invited to a barbeque celebration afterwards at
> Memorial Park in Grass Valley featuring food, some quality live music,
and,
> importantly, beer. It's a great way to get out and do some good for the
> river. Also, karmically speaking, it can only enhance your chances of
> multiple hookups the next time you visit the river .
>
> All volunteers must pre-register. So please send me an email at
> . I'll need the names (and ages if under 18) of all
> volunteers.
>
> If you would like to volunteer for one of the many other sites in the Yuba
> watershed, please contact Kayle Martin, SYRCL RiverAssistant at
> (530)265-5961 x 201 )
>
> Hoping to see a bunch of you out there!
>
> - Sid Heaton
>
>
>
> --
>
>

Sid Heaton
September 2nd, 2004, 07:33 AM
On 1 Sep 2004 16:33:18 -0700, (cruxgems) wrote:

> You should have seen that gravel bar on the Yuba, below the bridge
>on Hwy.20 below Narrows dam seventy years ago, Sid. Probably 75
>prospectors camped there each summer. I'm sure it's a lot more
>sanitary now than then.

Man, I would like to have seen that. And, yep, you're no doubt right
about the improved sanitation down there these days. Still, what it
lacks in quantity these days, though, it certainly does try to make up
for in, umm, quality. There are something like 20 sites we send crews
to every year for this cleanup day. Every year, we have a contest for
the most interesting bit of trash collected and every year the Parks
Bar site seems to come in first, whether it be for the really quite
stunningly arranged set of marital aids from two years ago, or the
bong constructed from a cow's skull we found last year (that one
actually may have been more art than trash...it's a fine line these
days, as any roff reader can attest).

> My Grandfather used to go down and talk with
>some of the old-timers camped there. I'm pushing 80 now, and use to
>play softball in Memorial park in the '30's.

Are you still in the GV\NC area? Come on down for the barbecue
afterwards...be great to hear some stories.

- Sid

Sid Heaton
September 2nd, 2004, 07:33 AM
On 1 Sep 2004 16:33:18 -0700, (cruxgems) wrote:

> You should have seen that gravel bar on the Yuba, below the bridge
>on Hwy.20 below Narrows dam seventy years ago, Sid. Probably 75
>prospectors camped there each summer. I'm sure it's a lot more
>sanitary now than then.

Man, I would like to have seen that. And, yep, you're no doubt right
about the improved sanitation down there these days. Still, what it
lacks in quantity these days, though, it certainly does try to make up
for in, umm, quality. There are something like 20 sites we send crews
to every year for this cleanup day. Every year, we have a contest for
the most interesting bit of trash collected and every year the Parks
Bar site seems to come in first, whether it be for the really quite
stunningly arranged set of marital aids from two years ago, or the
bong constructed from a cow's skull we found last year (that one
actually may have been more art than trash...it's a fine line these
days, as any roff reader can attest).

> My Grandfather used to go down and talk with
>some of the old-timers camped there. I'm pushing 80 now, and use to
>play softball in Memorial park in the '30's.

Are you still in the GV\NC area? Come on down for the barbecue
afterwards...be great to hear some stories.

- Sid

Sid Heaton
September 2nd, 2004, 07:34 AM
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:59:58 GMT, "B J Conner"
> wrote:

>A day? Your going to do that in a day? I admire your optimism.
>

Well, hell, BJ, it ain't Rome or nothing.

;-)

- Sid
....and come on down if you're in the area...we could use the help!

Sid Heaton
September 2nd, 2004, 07:34 AM
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:59:58 GMT, "B J Conner"
> wrote:

>A day? Your going to do that in a day? I admire your optimism.
>

Well, hell, BJ, it ain't Rome or nothing.

;-)

- Sid
....and come on down if you're in the area...we could use the help!

Sid Heaton
September 2nd, 2004, 07:46 AM
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:55:00 GMT, "Bill Kiene" >
wrote:

> [call to the trash bags on the Yuba River kindly reposted by Bill snipped]

Thanks for reposting that, Bill! It would be great if any NorCal
roffians out there could make it down to the Yuba for the cleanup.

On another note, it's kinda surreal to be blazing through a day's
ration of roff, come across a post that leads with a mildly
s******-inspiring typo ("I'm like" instead of "I'd like") and then
realize it was you who made the typo. O, if only John Denver were here
to comfort me with either a lilting rendition of "This Old Guitar" or
a quick synopsis of how to beat the Ravens' suddenly much improved
nickel coverage!

- Sid

obroff -- My not-quite-two-year-old reeled in his first bluegill down
at a local pond today using a nifty little TFO 6' two weight I picked
up recently. Even broke off a bigger one when he tried to jackpole it
over his shoulder. The kid's got potential ;-).

Sid Heaton
September 2nd, 2004, 07:46 AM
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:55:00 GMT, "Bill Kiene" >
wrote:

> [call to the trash bags on the Yuba River kindly reposted by Bill snipped]

Thanks for reposting that, Bill! It would be great if any NorCal
roffians out there could make it down to the Yuba for the cleanup.

On another note, it's kinda surreal to be blazing through a day's
ration of roff, come across a post that leads with a mildly
s******-inspiring typo ("I'm like" instead of "I'd like") and then
realize it was you who made the typo. O, if only John Denver were here
to comfort me with either a lilting rendition of "This Old Guitar" or
a quick synopsis of how to beat the Ravens' suddenly much improved
nickel coverage!

- Sid

obroff -- My not-quite-two-year-old reeled in his first bluegill down
at a local pond today using a nifty little TFO 6' two weight I picked
up recently. Even broke off a bigger one when he tried to jackpole it
over his shoulder. The kid's got potential ;-).

cruxgems
September 2nd, 2004, 05:58 PM
Sid Heaton > wrote in message >
> Are you still in the GV\NC area? Come on down for the barbecue
> afterwards...be great to hear some stories.

I left G.V. years ago, and now live up near the Canadian border, but
my 91 year old sister still lives on Alta Hill in the house she and
her husband had built in 1936. She still drives her 4X4 to do her
shopping and drop by her Dr's. office now and then to tell him he's an
idiot and that she's not going to take that damn medicine. Speaking of
stories, did you know there's an elephant buried in a mine shaft on
Murphy hill in G.V. A circus came to town around 1928 and when the
elephant got sick and died they pushed it down the shaft. There were a
lot of interesting stories the old 'cousin-jacks' knew about the area,
but they're all gone now. Hope you have a good turn out on your clean
up day.

cruxgems
September 2nd, 2004, 05:58 PM
Sid Heaton > wrote in message >
> Are you still in the GV\NC area? Come on down for the barbecue
> afterwards...be great to hear some stories.

I left G.V. years ago, and now live up near the Canadian border, but
my 91 year old sister still lives on Alta Hill in the house she and
her husband had built in 1936. She still drives her 4X4 to do her
shopping and drop by her Dr's. office now and then to tell him he's an
idiot and that she's not going to take that damn medicine. Speaking of
stories, did you know there's an elephant buried in a mine shaft on
Murphy hill in G.V. A circus came to town around 1928 and when the
elephant got sick and died they pushed it down the shaft. There were a
lot of interesting stories the old 'cousin-jacks' knew about the area,
but they're all gone now. Hope you have a good turn out on your clean
up day.

Osama Bin Bush
September 4th, 2004, 10:03 AM
In article >,
"Bill Kiene" > wrote:

> Greetings fellow flyfishermen!
>
> I'm like to enlist your help in cleaning up one of Norther California's most
> visited flyfishing streams -- the Lower Yuba. As part of the California
> Coastal Cleanup Day on September 18th, 2004, from 9am-12:00pm, volunteers
> from all over will converge on the greater Yuba Watershed to clean up trash,
> recyclables, and whatever else we might encounter. I'm hoping to muster the
> flyfishing community to get out to the Parks Bar Bridge site and clean up
> one of the areas of the river we use the most - the Lower Yuba.
>
> All CleanUp volunteers are invited to a barbeque celebration afterwards at
> Memorial Park in Grass Valley featuring food, some quality live music, and,
> importantly, beer. It's a great way to get out and do some good for the
> river. Also, karmically speaking, it can only enhance your chances of
> multiple hookups the next time you visit the river .
>
> All volunteers must pre-register. So please send me an email at
> . I'll need the names (and ages if under 18) of all
> volunteers.
>
> If you would like to volunteer for one of the many other sites in the Yuba
> watershed, please contact Kayle Martin, SYRCL RiverAssistant at
> (530)265-5961 x 201 )
>
> Hoping to see a bunch of you out there!
>
> - Sid Heaton

If you volunteer. will YOA give you permission to fish from the shore
either at the end of the day or the next day? If you are going to be
cleaning up the river you would think YOA would let you have access to
fish from the shore!!

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never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we," President george bush (AKA president dumb dumb)

Sid Heaton
September 7th, 2004, 07:35 AM
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 09:03:42 GMT, Osama Bin Bush >
wrote:

>If you volunteer. will YOA give you permission to fish from the shore
>either at the end of the day or the next day? If you are going to be
>cleaning up the river you would think YOA would let you have access to
>fish from the shore!!

The state of California continues to give you the right to fish to the
ordinary high water mark on the Yuba, regardless of your participation
in the cleanup. Now, if we could all just agree exactly where that
line was ;-).

- Sid

Sid Heaton
September 7th, 2004, 07:35 AM
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 09:03:42 GMT, Osama Bin Bush >
wrote:

>If you volunteer. will YOA give you permission to fish from the shore
>either at the end of the day or the next day? If you are going to be
>cleaning up the river you would think YOA would let you have access to
>fish from the shore!!

The state of California continues to give you the right to fish to the
ordinary high water mark on the Yuba, regardless of your participation
in the cleanup. Now, if we could all just agree exactly where that
line was ;-).

- Sid