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More than just catching fish
By DAVE BUCHANAN The Daily Sentinel When Carol teaches, people listen. That’s important, but it’s only a part of the reason why Grand Junction resident Carol Oglesby recently was honored with the Federation of Fly Fisher’s "Woman of the Year" award at the Federation’s annual conclave in Bozeman, Mont. The award is one of the "Big Three" given out each year by the FFF, along with the Man of the Year and the Buzz Buszek Award, given to someone in the fly-tying end of the sport. Among the past recipients of Woman of the Year honored are such illustrious fly fishers as Joan Wulff, Joan Whitlock, Maggie Merriman and Rhea Topping. The criteria in part require "outstanding contributions" that benefit the Federation on a national or international level.
Going fishing in the fall
I can hardly believe the calender! Summer is rapidly coming to a close and fall fishing is right around the corner. I do not know if it is me or if time just seems to be passing by very quickly these days.
As I sit here at my computer writing this, I am a week away from another milestone in my life. After working for 34 and a half years, the last 29 here for Placer County, I am retiring from my real job. On Friday, September 1st, I will be walking out of an office that has been my workplace since I moved up here in 1977. It will seem strange and I certainly will miss my co-workers whom I also consider good friends.
I wonder just how much my life will change without my regular job. There will be a little more time for fishing and a little golf. Perhaps a part-time job doing something that I like or that would get me some golfing or skiing privileges might be something that I will do.
Bird flu puts small dent in flyfishing business
DELTA, Colo. Lines of long, narrow, white buildings spread out across the ranch in the lush, green farmland of western Colorado. Inside are chickens, up to 85,000 in each of the dimly lit coops with interiors that feel like greenhouses and smell like outhouses. This is Tom Whiting's lab, where he creates new kinds of chickens or, more specifically, chicken feathers. Whiting is no mad scientist. He's a poultry geneticist and his company, Whiting Farms, is the world's largest producer of the chicken hackle that fly fishermen use for tying flies. Whiting keeps a watchful eye on his birds, from the time the chicks are hatched until their feathers are packaged and shipped to companies in roughly 40 countries. With the operation broken up among three ranches, Whiting has biological security from poultry diseases and protection from natural disasters that might wipe out his entire line.
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