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Fly Fishing Industry News and Hot New Products
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.
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.
A Sound Sleep and a Single Fish
BLOOMINGTON, Md. I like a good sleep as much as the next man, but is even the soundest snooze worth a three-hour drive, particularly with gasoline at $3 a gallon? "I thought we were supposed to be catching big trout," I groused to Jay Sheppard last week after eight hours flogging the storied waters of the Savage River and North Branch of the Potomac here in the highlands of Western Maryland. "Where's all the fish?" .
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