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But probably not surprising. http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/Report10_21_04.pdf
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| OT Letter to the Post Dispatch |
We here in Boston hosted the Cardinals and their fans twice this year - in the regular season in June and of course this week in the World Series. You have a great team, and the fans lived...
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| Short TR of a short trip |
FINALLY, I wet a line. Blustery, cold, swirling winds -- oh ya, nice day. I wanted steelhead, Grand River steelhead. We've had lots of rain, pouring, buckets, cats & dogs, ...
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| More Good News! |
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-10-31-iran-uranium_x.htm Willi goldens@frii.com
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| OT - happy halloween |
today, in prestopans, scotland, all accused witches and their cats who were executed in the township in the 16th and 17th century - approximately 81 people, no mention of the number of cat...
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| OT Get off that goalpost,,, |
...Wayno, before you hurt your old fool self. ;-) That was cool. -- Ken Fortenberry
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| OT: Humor |
A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab, and the cab driver won't stop staring at her. She asks him why he is staring. He replies: "I have a question to ask you...
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| Graham County Side Trip |
Yeah well, the ex-wife, the mother of my daughter, was diagnosed with liver cancer last week. I've gotta go to Birmingham, Alabama next weekend and deal with a lot of emotional stuff that I'...
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| wiggle nymphs |
I'm starting to tie up a stock for next year and on the list are Brown Drake look-a-likes. Both my notes and my reference books make a "wiggle" nymph tied on two hooks with a hi...
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| OT poetic failure |
I rent out my pasture in irrigation season. Today they came to herd up the cows and move them to winter feed. In years past "they" has consisted of two (2) cowboys on well trained <...
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| Swimming with waders experiment. READ THIS!! |
As promised, today I tested (intentionally) the effect of swimming in chest-high breathables while wearing a wading belt or not wearing a wading belt. Here is my experiement, my results an...
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| OT: Epilog (Win it all and they will come!) |
A rainy cold day here, but that hasn't slowed hoards streaming to Boston for the celebration of a lifetime (or two). Awesome, "feel good" ending. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3...
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| just got a phone call..... |
....as I was cleaning up the tying room for the coming winter season, from Bill Clinton himself. Dean is going to be so jealous!<g> At any rate, those of us in PA have little doubt wha...
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| Armourall on Flylines? |
It s getting toward the end of the season and yesterday I was fishing the other end of a Double taper line. I m hard on lines. And the these "reetchy" sounds were coming off...
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| Apologies to All.... |
(Formerly Intellect Enabled) To all here on ROFF, I got carried away with political issues in a previous thread, and I'd like to sincerely apologize to those of you whom I m...
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| The Art of the Trout Fly |
Picked up at my weekly library trip a copy of " The Art of the Trout Fly" by Judith Dunham. Don't tie myself but found the work and comments of the world class flytiers included to be ver...
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| Save the Environment Use Bamboo! |
We're fly fishermen, we care about the environment, yet most of fish with graphite fly rods. As a group we're freeking hypocrites! Think about it graphite is not friendly to the environment,...
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| Anti-clave photos |
I've got 22 photos that may be of interest to those who attended the recent anti-clave......and, possibly, even to some who didn't. All are 1600x1200 pixel jpeg files, approximately 500 to ...
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| OT: The Armageddon Gambit |
Figured this out on the drive home tonight . . . . I was surprised that no one took a shot at my Euro vs. dollar post, but after the eureka moment during the drive tonight,...
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| i need your help please |
if you have a great fishing story write it down and e mail it to me a mearetristen@yahoo.com i will put it up all submisions greatly apriciated
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| OT: humor |
http://www.imgag.com/product/full/ap/3067907/graphic1.swf I laughed, and I cried. -- Stan Gula http://gula.org/roffswaps
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| OT- Frodo Lives! |
http://www.enn.com/ch_wild.html?id=42 g.c. "Chumley: Good heavens, man! Haven’t you any righteous indignation? Dowd: Oh, Doctor! You know years ago my mother said...
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| OT Sweet & Sour, Baseball & Politics |
Just for 'tripper, a sour note to complement a sweet day. http://www.thewmurchannel.com/politics/3868810/detail.html -- Ken Fortenberry- you're welcome ;-)
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| CACA #3 i |
...Asadi arrived at some point along the way... he's pure appalachian poetry itsownself. He set up camp over on Snowbird. It was my first real opportunity to fish or share time with J...
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| Halloween Costume Idea!! |
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2BE263A9 You can go as an EHC! --riverman
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| Waders Danger question |
Just curious, what happens if one accidentally gets in too deep and your waders fill up with water? I haven't been there yet, but it's crossed my mind if it happens. Sounds like it coul...
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| OT For the Simpler Creatures |
http://www.counterpop.net/~dignan/baseball.php
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| On topic: back pain while wading? |
OK, no soapbox this time. I've noticed this season that I'm starting to get bad back pains when I wade or fish deeper than mid-thigh. I sort of noticed it several times, but it ...
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| Damn, that was nice. |
Stayed up all night to watch the game, only felt like it was really really gonna happen when it was 3-0, bottom of the ninth and one out. When it happened, I grinned from ear to ear, toast...
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| I never thought.... |
.....I would live to say "Congrats to the WORLD CHAMPION Boston Red Sox! George Adams "All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of y...
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