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Fly-fishing (and eating splendidly) with a gourmet chef
T he people: If he isn't behind the stove at The Heathman Restaurant & Bar, executive chef Philippe Boulot is probably fly-fishing. Whenever he can get a few days off, this Normandy transplant turned wild Westerner drives his pontoon boat to sporting destinations such as the Deschutes, John Day and Grande Ronde rivers for some floating and casting. Sommelier Erica Landon also is an outdoors buff, and whether she's rafting, hiking or fishing, she's always got a bottle of wine stashed in her pack. The place: The deep wine list at The Heathman Restaurant & Bar highlights local Willamette Valley producers, while the menu marries classic French techniques with fresh Northwest ingredients. (1001 S.W. Broadway; 503-790-7752; www.heathmanhotel.com) The problem: Too many summertime fishing, hiking and camping expeditions are rendered dreary by a diet of oatmeal, Top Ramen, Gatorade and Budweiser.
Fishing's good as Coho Derby opens
Jay Torke of Kohler and his five-member team, Untouchable, led the pack Saturday, the first day of the two-day team competition in the Coho Derby headquartered at The Wharf, 733 Riverfront Drive. "We brewed a gallon and a half of coffee and drank it all," said Torke, whose family owns the Torke Coffee Roasting Co. in Sheboygan. "That's definitely helping us catch fish." Untouchable is leading 42 teams in the Super Derby tournament with 124.55 pounds of fish in the 36th annual Coho Derby, said Grace Brown, co-owner of The Wharf with her husband, Jeff, both organizers of the competition. Torke, 30, said his team caught 14 fish, but were only allowed to weigh 10 nine king salmon and one lake trout. He talked a bit about the team's strategy. "We looked at the northeast wind that's been going the past few days, kind of figured that the fish would be deeper, so we started deep and found a few and kind of worked that area," Torke said.
Trout blamed for too much
WITH the new trout fishing season upon us, I think that my recent discovery is timely. Among some old papers which were stacked in a box under my house, I found a report concerning the native spotted tree frog, Litorea spenceri, which was threatened with extinction some time before 1990, although the report I have is dated 1997. The main theme of the report was that these threatened frogs were declining in numbers as a result of being eaten by rainbow trout. To help the dwindling frog numbers there was a scheme afoot, involving the Victorian Government and then Department of Environment, to withdraw or eradicate rainbow trout from streams in the Mt Buffalo National Park in particular, in an effort to halt this alarming decline in frog numbers. Both rainbow trout and brown trout are exotic fish species, being introduced into Australia from the US and England respectively in the late 19th century.
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