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Trout on the Upper Mo. need a helping hand
If you ever float the Missouri River between Toston Dam and Townsend you'll surely enjoy a delightful float away from major roads and have the opportunity to observe the area's abundant wildlife. You'll probably see many species of birds, including the majestic bald eagle, and if you're lucky you may see an osprey plunging into the water after a fish. Muskrats and beaver are common along the banks, as are whitetail deer, and you might even see a family of otters. The one thing that probably won't distract you on your float is the quiet slurp of a brown trout rising to a grasshopper under the overhanging willows, or in late October the crash of a hook-jawed male brown during his spawning ritual.It wasn't always this way. If you talk to a trout fisher who frequented this beautiful stretch in the early 1980s you will hear stories of huge brown trout trying to leap the overflow of Toston Dam, or of landing an 8-pound brown hooked on a streamer stripped through a fast riffle.
FALL FISHING DERBY GOES UNTIL MONDAY
OSWEGO - Erieville's James Huftalen, who caught a 38-pound, 14-ounce Chinook salmon in Oswego on the first day of the event, is still the grand-prize leader in the Lake Ontario Counties Trout & Salmon Derby. The derby continues through Monday in the U.S. and Canadian waters of Lake Ontario. The grand prize is $20,000. Huftalen caught the fish while on a charter with his friend Bill Bouck aboard Captain Ernie Lantiegne's Fish Doctor Charters. The salmon was caught using copper line on a planer board with a Hot Chip flasher and a Howie Fly. Lantiegne said they were trolling in about 120 feet of water west of Oswego. The fish was about 90 feet down, and was caught at about 3:30 p.m. The Chinook salmon was weighed at Larry's Oswego Salmon Shop, an official registration point and weigh station of the derby.
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The recently released flim, Jindabyne, is an adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story So Much Water, So Close to Home, about a group of fishermen who discover the dead body of a woman floating in the river. Instead of doing something with the body, the men mysteriously decide to leave the body while they continue to fish. When the men finally return home to Jindabyne, and report finding the body, all hell breaks loose. The fishermen, their wives and their children are suddenly haunted by their own bad spirits. As public opinion builds against the actions of the men, their certainty about themselves and the decision they made at the river is challenged. Jindabyne casts Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard and Leah Purcell. It was directed by Australian, Ray Lawrence and produced by April Films.
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