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Hopper time
I put on my waders, my felt-soled boots and a fleece vest because it felt a little bit cool when I got to the Oldman River. The sky was cloudy, threatening rain. A chilly breeze was sweeping down the valley from the west. But within 20 minutes I was sweating like I was in the tropics, the breeze had stopped and the sun had popped out from behind the clouds. I should have known. Summer might be winding down, but it ain't done yet. I'd come down to the Oldman River below the Three Rivers Dam to try a bit of late-afternoon grasshopper fishing. No, not fishing for grasshoppers. I mean using big flies imitating grasshoppers to fool some trout into playing with me for a bit. It's the time of year for grasshoppers along the river banks to start leaping and flying around looking for mates.
Number of women fly fishing has gone up since 2003
By DAVE BUCHANAN The Daily Sentinel Fly fishing. It’s not just for men anymore. As if it ever were. It was in the 1400s that Dame Juliana Berners, preceding Izaak Walton by 200 years, published the essay, "A Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle," (the Old English title) in which the good nun suggests that fishing with a rod and a line brings good spirits and enhances life. More and more, many of those anglers enjoying those good spirits and enhanced life are women. According to an Outdoor Industry Foundation study last year, there are nearly 3.5 million women who fly fish in the United States, up 200,000 since 2003. That’s welcome news to Robert Ramsay, president of the American Fly Fishers Trade Association.
Who cares about the weather when a fish is on the line?
Dangerous Dan Bloomquist will not like reading about himself on the outdoor page, despite the fact that he fishes religiously and sometimes appreciates a tale about the ways of angling. Truth is tales aren't really Dan's speed, he'd much rather read 'how to' books on casting, study text books on knot tying or peruse a collection of effective midge patterns for the lower Wisconsin River. Fishing is serious business for Dan, he knows the more he understands about fishing the more successful hell be. And it's not so much that Dan will be angry about seeing his name here he's not quite that dangerous he is quiet and modest and uneasy about any notoriety that might come his way because of his being featured in the newspaper. So, knowing that, let us proceed with our story about Dan, we'll deal with the fallout later.
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