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The one that still gets away
I found the big rainbow one evening three weeks ago. I was pretty sure I hadn't seen it before, at least not in the skinny glass clear pool, where I watched as it twisted its shoulders into the sand and gravel stirring up nymphs. She - I assume the big rainbow was a female because males don't often grow that large.I watched her one other evening just before dark and she rose once to sip a small dry fly off the surface. On some summer evenings a few tan caddis dip over the water, and I've caught a few trout on a tiny tan comparaduns tied on a size 20 hook.That night I checked the sky and went back to the Jeep to pull on hip boots and string up a fly rod. It's a little seven-and-a-half foot bamboo made by Hal Bacon. He build rods for the Payne Rod Company in New York and went west to Oregon, when the company moved, then started building rods under his own name.
Spill probe as beauty spot lake reopens
THE CHASE beauty spot where thousands of rare fish died after a sewage leak has been reopened as investigators continue inquiries into the cause and long-term effects of the spill. The spill - in the form of a grey fungus -covered large areas of water in the 250-acre National Trust-owned beauty spot at Woolton Hill, near Newbury last month. A walker reported the spill after seeing dead fish including brown trout and endangered bullhead and lamprey floating on the surface. The Environment Agency estimated more than 2,000 fish had died along with other marine life in the chalk stream and an adjoining lake. An agency spokesman said this week: "The National Trust has reopened the area but is warning people not to swim or let their pets go in the water. .
FWP, county agree on pond plan
The Lewis and Clark County Commission on Tuesday approved a plan for the management and future improvements at the pond and agreed with a state Fish, Wildlife and Parks official who suggested the creation of a citizens advisory council to ensure those upgrades move forward.The plan, drafted by an advisory committee created by the commission, calls for improvements to the pond's water intake system; limiting domesticated ducks and geese to three breeding pairs apiece plus their offspring; installing new signage and garbage cans; removing of asphalt near the water's edge; and the possible construction of a fishing dock, among other improvements.It allows the continued use of the pond for youth fishing, although young anglers would be limited to the north end of the 1.6-acre water hole. FWP Resource Program Manager Mike Korn said rainbow trout will continue to be stocked yearly.
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