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Learning to enjoy life again
BOND, COLO. - The trout rose and sipped a mayfly off the surface of the Colorado River. Joshua Williams caught the small disturbance on the water from the corner of his eye. Standing in a drift boat, he raised his fly rod and the trout rose again and gulped in the artificial fly on the end of the line.Suddenly, Williams was in trouble.He'd done this a hundred times before on the rivers and creeks around his home in Virginia, passionately throwing a fly at rising trout, holding the long rod in his right hand and gently stripping in the slack line with his left, a delicate two-handed operation.But on a recent Friday, the 22-year-old Army staff sergeant, who had spent a hellish year engaged in street combat in Iraq, had a problem.He didn't have a right hand.The trout surged into the current. Williams, holding the rod in his left hand, hung on.
Berkshire Trout Hatchery to stay open
NEW MARLBOROUGH This is a fish story with a happy ending. Yesterday afternoon, a representative from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service signed a Memorandum of Understanding with representatives from the Berkshire Trout Hatchery Foundation to allow the foundation to run the hatchery, keeping it open for the foreseeable future. The Berkshire Trout Hatchery, in the village of Hartsville, is, in many ways, one of the most important places in Berkshire County, not to mention one of the least known. It is one of the oldest trout hatcheries in the United States, created in 1914 through a gift from the John Sullivan Scully family. But the hatchery was privately owned for several years before that, according to LeRoy Thorpe, a member of the foundation's board of directors. "It's more than 100 years old, easily," he said.
Event features fishing legend
The Blue Grass Chapter of Trout Unlimited will host a special event on Monday, Aug. 14, with fly-fishing legends Dave and Emily Whitlock. Dave Whitlock is a renowned conservationist, fly tyer, writer and artist. His presentation and fly casting demonstration will be held at 6 p.m. at the Good Ol' Days Farm, 544 Old Frankfort, in Midway. Reservations are required, and tickets are $30 per person. For tickets call Holly Phipps at (859) 351-7158, or e-mail: hphipps@ballhomes.com. "How fortunate for the world of fly fishing that Dave Whitlock was born in the right place, in the right era, and got started on the right road," wrote John Randolph, editor of Fly Fisherman, in 2000. "In a sport where the arcane is standard fare, he makes fly-tying innovations and new fishing techniques practical and understandable.
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