What's your favorite fly fishing book?

cyli writes:
Scouts with lousy leaders _aren't_ going to be good Scouts or learn
much about the outdoors. And Scouts will be what people talk about,
not their inept or uncaring leaders.

Certainly no argument there. I've had the same unpleasant encounters with
both scouts and non-scout groups on my own camping trips. And I've
encountered some very polite juvenile groups. But on the whole, these
days, given the portability of musical playback devices, I'd rather not camp
near any youth group. For that matter, I'd rather not camp near anyone
else.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 05:03:47 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


One hates to cast aspersions (however unintentionally) on anyone's
integrity
or offer commentary on eyewitness accounts of events at which he
was himself
not present, but careful observers as far back as Bartram and
Audubon (as
well as others too numerous to mention) have noted that herons do
not
usually carry their prey.

Wolfgang



That is because Master Juvenal has mistaken the observed behavior as
predatory in nature when in fact it is an example of a complex
symbiotic arrangement between herons and 8 point whitetail bucks.
When
young, herons and fawns will often spend hours together romping and
rough housing in wet meadows. At maturity they will usually
seperate
and go there own ways but there is a strong bond formed. When the
buck
reaches the peak of his buckliness, his tawny antlers reaching for
God's blue heavens and his neck swollen with the lust of life, the
great blue heron, the very same that was the buck's childhood
campanion, will alight upon the deers rack. From this high perch he
will be in the perfect position to alert his old chum to the
approach
of predatory beasts, be it wolves, bear or Fred Bear. For this
vigilent service the buck is rightly grateful. And in return he will
allow himself to be picked up by the great blue and carried to the
nearest stream. (This is the behavior that VibraJet observed.)
There
he will be deposited by the bird in the stream bed and then the bird
will take up position upstream from the proud male deer. With a
great
splashing the deer will wade towards the bird, driving the silver
fishes ahead of them. The trout and chubs flee in terror from the
razor sharp hooves only to fall sad victim to the equally berazored
beak of the blue and sinister bird. Thus is nature's strange dance
is
completed and the circle of life come full...circle.

Well there ya go, another pretty fantasy crushed out of existence.
But the brazen truth has a certain hard edged beauty of its own.

g.c.

Who saw it on the Discovery Channel.

Hm.....sounded more like Food Network or Lifetime to me.

Wolfgang
who, admittedly, has never been much of a botanist.

Interesting clumping these two together. "Politically Incorrect" is almost
a feeling, but what is "ecologically incorrect". Cutting down enough trees
to build a 45 foot tower so you could climb it leaves a whole bunch of
stumps in the woods. It doesn't seem to equate to the possibility that
somebody might be offended by your actions.
scott

One of my troop's favorite camping sites was an Ozark farm owned by one of
the family of one member. The owner periodically had a state forester mark
trees for thinning. He used these for firewood on the farm and in town.
The understanding was that we were free to cut these trees and only these
trees. So we got practice in felling trees, rudimentary logging and a bit
of knowledge about forest management. WE had a source of material for
pioneering practice and games, and our host had fewer trees to fell to heat
his homes.

I would never have presumed that such practice was acceptable on other
lands. And during the years when I served as an adult scout leader, much or
our camping took place on public lands, BLM, state forest, national forest,
state park, Corps of Engineers lands, etc.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
Hm.....sounded more like Food Network or Lifetime to me.

I was thinkin' it was Inside Edition. Didn't they win a Peabody for that
segment? :-)

Joe F.

"rb608" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
Hm.....sounded more like Food Network or Lifetime to me.

I was thinkin' it was Inside Edition. Didn't they win a Peabody for
that
segment? :-)

Different episode.....long time ago.....way back.....and it was a
Sherman.

Wolfgang
revisionist to the stars.

"slenon" wrote in message
. com...
cyli writes:
Scouts with lousy leaders _aren't_ going to be good Scouts or learn
much about the outdoors. And Scouts will be what people talk about,
not their inept or uncaring leaders.

Certainly no argument there. I've had the same unpleasant encounters with
both scouts and non-scout groups on my own camping trips. And I've
encountered some very polite juvenile groups. But on the whole, these
days, given the portability of musical playback devices, I'd rather not
camp
near any youth group. For that matter, I'd rather not camp near anyone
else.

The morons who burn plastic in their campfires are also right at the bottom
of the evolutionary chain. Good pistol targets, if only the authorities
would get lost for an hour or so.

In article ,
says...

The morons who burn plastic in their campfires are also right at the bottom
of the evolutionary chain. Good pistol targets, if only the authorities
would get lost for an hour or so.

As scary as it is, I'd be willing to bet that a vast major or those
who burn plastic are unaware that it won't burn and won't break down.

I forget the exact quote, but something along the lines of never
attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. The
longer I live, the more I realize that most people are clueless.
- Ken

wrote in message
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...those
who burn plastic are unaware that it won't burn and won't break
down.....

Hm.....what do you think we can do to convince them?

Wolfgang
who, admittedly, is stumped.

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, rb608 wrote:

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
Hm.....sounded more like Food Network or Lifetime to me.

I was thinkin' it was Inside Edition. Didn't they win a Peabody for that
segment? :-)

Joe F.

correction, it was a Polk.

Mu

Wolfgang
revisionist to the stars.

Wrong hat!

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm