Willy has also been the President of the Challhuaco Foundation "waters of good fishing" for the past 12 years. This organization is responsible for the conservation and protection of many of the river resources in the Patagonia region. They are affiliated with FFF, TU and the Whirling Disease Foundation.

Willy has been featured several times on ESPN programs airing in both Argentina and the United States. Additional information about Willy can be retrieved from http://www.willyexpeditions.com

• Los Alerces, Nahuel Huapi and Lanin National Parks certificated Fly Fishing Guide and Outfitter since 1987.
  
  
• Mel Krieger´s International Fly Fishing school certified Fly Casting and Fly Fishing Instructor.
  
  
• Argentina Mel Krieger´s FLy Casting and Fly Fishing clinics translator.
  
  
• Argentina National Tourist Secretary Fly Fishing advisor.
  
  
• Bariloche Tourist Secretary Fly Fishing advisor.
  
  
• Nahuel Huapi and Northern Patagonian Fly Fishing Guide Association member.
  
  
• Argentina National Parks Sport Fishing Regulations Commission member.
  
  
• Fly tying instructor.
  
  
• Big Valley´s Fly Tying Materials Company co-owner.
  
  
• Challhuaco Foundation ( Waters of good fishing) founder and actual President.

Fly fishing Patagonia, means experience the unbeatable charming feeling of being at one of the most wild and vast pieces of land on the face of the earth. The entire Patagonian landscape acquires a timeless and end-less character. Fly fishing Patagonia gives you the chance of facing the most amazing smorgasborgd of waters fish and techniques, from beautiful small and medium dry-fly and nymph fishing streams for rainbows and browns, to large and huge streamer fishing rivers for Sea-run and freshwater migratory silver browns, from extremely delightful sigh-fishing pocket waters, to the finest and challenging landlocked salmon fishing streams. Patagonia fly fishing season runs from mid-November through mid-April.

Join us on the 23rd of this month at the Museum of the Dog, 7:30 PM.

Still, fun can be had on the tailwaters on the White River, with late evening hatches on the Meramec River, with smallmouth on any number of Ozark streams, and even during the early morning and late evening on farm ponds where a few largemouth will look up at a popping bug. It's more hot than heavy fishing -- a time of year to ditch the waders and heavy vest in favor of shorts, tennis shoes and a chest pack. And bring plenty of drinking water.

It will be over soon and some fun activities are on the horizon. A trip to Springrise near Steelville is one of them on September 15. Another is the annual conclave in Mountain Home, Arkansas on October 5-6. And we are still trying to resurrect a family picnic and outing for October 13 at the August A. Busch Wildlife Area (more word about that next month). And the catch-release outing at Bennett Springs State Park in November isn't that far away.

There are some other things to keep in mind. There are proposals to change the catch-and-release regulations on the White River in Arkansas that are alarming. A letter in support of keeping strong regulations in place sent to the Arkansas Fish and Game Commission might do a lot of good. A proposal for a commercial boat dock on a section of the North Fork River in Arkansas remains a concern.

August is kind of a transition month between the summer and fall--between poor fishing and better things to come. As I write this, more than a few members of the club are toughing it out in places like Montana or Michigan or Canada or some other exotic fishing locale where the mercury has a tough time rising above 75. Soon, they'll be back and we'll have to hear the stories about trout as long as your arm and streams and lakes with too many fish and too few fishermen. But those of us here for the duration of the heat wave know that the fish we catch at this time of year we've earned literally by the sweat of our brow--character fish, you might say.

Still I couldn't help being a little wistful one recent air quality yellow evening, standing limply on the sun-baked bank of a local pond, traffic from nearby highway roaring by a short distance away. My T-shirt was stuck to my chest and the humidity fogging my sunglasses. I was spending most of my time waving fruitlessly at mosquitoes, who were biting more than the few agitated bass out for a snack in weedy water that felt like a warm bath. A cool mountain breeze and some rising trout would have been awfully nice.

A group of us are meeting at the commuter parking lot in Eureka on the south side of Interstate 44 at Highway 109 on Sunday afternoon about 1 p.m. We are heading down to the Suicide or Cardiac Hill accesses to the river and expect to get on the water at about 3 p.m.--about the time the wave of canoeists is about over. Bring some light cahills and white mayfly patterns, drinking water and a flash-light or two because it gets dark about 8 p.m. Call Brian Flinchpaugh at (636) 240-0965 for more info.

Wood suggested eliminating catch and release areas and adding slot limit areas allowing the keeping of two small rainbows and one brown trout over 20 inches, Smith said. Another proposal was to allow up to two treble hooks in the present catch and release areas (barbless was suggested). The commission may vote on the propsals at their August 16 or 23 meetings without a public hearing. Even though it's late, a letter expressing your concerns about the proposals can be sent to the commission. Smith urges that letters be sent to the seven member commission but for the sake of time a letter can be sent to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, c/o The Commissioners, #2 Natural Resources Drive, Little Rock, AR 72205. Their fax number is (501) 223-6447.

Meanwhile, the Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers, report there are still concerns about an amended proposal for a commercial boat dock on the North Fork River, just upstream from its confluence with the White

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• Mike Blank
  
  
• Steven J. Votava
  
  
• Mat Rueger
  
  
• John M. Smith
  
  
• Andy Seckinger
  

Hi Chris,

I'm glad you had a great day at the Kids fishing day and I'm happy that you're taking up the sport of fly fishing. I hope you receive a lifetime of enjoyment from the sport just as I am. You are the future of our fly fishing sport.

The person that was assisting you was Joseph Aimonette and his email is JAimone639@aol.com I'll see to it that he receives your message. Joseph and I are both members of Ozark Fly Fishers (http://ozarkflyfishers.org) and our next meeting is Thursday, July 26th at Tilles park (at the pond) and the meeting will start at 6:30pm. The whole meeting will be devoted to enhancing our casting skills. Perhaps your mother can bring you to our meeting and perhaps she might enjoy receiving some casting instruction also.

Please visit our web site at http://ozarkflyfishers.org for additional information (i.e. a map to Tilles Park etc.).

We hope to see you there on July 26th!

Brian Ellis
Secretary of Ozark Fly Fishers

We were trying to find a green drake hatch and exploit the naive wild cutthroat population. Water clearer than triple distilled gin and a red/green/tan mosaic stream bottom made this one of the most beautiful places on earth. It was one of those great days where the illusive three ingredients came together: We were there; the fish were there; and the flies were there. The fish were eager and the flies were plentiful.

It was one of the finest days I have had astream. But what made it so memorable was in mid afternoon after the flies stopped floating by. Nymphs were the order then and a little hare's ear or the fly formerly known as Prince was money in the bank. I was standing on the shallow side of a deep pool and John Hinde had descended the steep bank on the other side. About 40 feet apart, we chatted and drifted nymphs in the filtered sunlight. I was thinking "If it weren't for the Godawful walk out of here, this may be the best day of my life!"

John had hooked a small cutt and was bringing it to net when I saw what looked like a log on the stream bottom slowly rise to the flashing trout and inhale it! Ten inches of fish, gone, consumed, et up! But John still was fast to a fish which moved slowly to deeper water. A huge Bull Trout had ended his meal with the hare's ear in the top of his upper jaw and wasn't too happy about it! Seldom have I seen such thrashing and movement. Darting here, rushing there! And I'm not talking about the fish, who was calmly applying his ten plus pounds to John's woefully inadequate three weight rod. Somehow, John landed that fish, ugly beast that it was, and gently returned it to the water. I had seen the whole spectacle and it was riveting.

Bull trout are a member of the North American salmon family, which includes salmon, trout, whitefish, charr, and grayling. Members of this family tend to prefer cold, clear waters, and the bull trout is exceptional for its demand for especially cold--no more than 64deg. F--water.

Salmonids are particularly known for their migratory nature. Anadromous salmon are an extreme case, spending most of their lives in the ocean but returning to head-waters streams to spawn. Resident trout are at the opposite end of the spectrum, spending generation after generation in one stream. Between these extremes are migratory fish that never reach salt water, including adfluvial fish, which spawn in streams but live in lakes; and fluvial fish, which spawn in headwaters streams but live downstream in larger rivers.

Various populations of bull trout fit at all ranges of this spectrum. Many are resident to a single stream; others migrate on a fluvial or adfluvial basis. And one population of bull trout in Washington is known to be anadromous. Presumably, the various types of trout interbred at times, which helped maintain viable populations throughout the fish's range.

The bull trout received its name from its large head and mouth. It is also distinguished by its predatory nature, and its diet as an adult consists largely of other fish. But when given an opportunity it has also been known to eat frogs, snakes, mice, and ducklings.

Until recently, the bull trout was considered an inland form of the Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malmo), an anadromous trout found in coastal streams. In 1978 biologists decided it was a separate species, and named it Salvelinus confluentus.

The bull trout may have been anadromous during the last glacial period, when cold, clear streams were more abundant than today. This would explain its occurrence in isolated drainages throughout the Northwest.

Bull trout can live for many years and are sexually mature after four. They spawn every year or every other year and require particularly clean gravel bars for their redds If 20 percent of the solids in a gravel bar are fine sediments, spawning success falls by more than 50 percent; 40 percent fine sediments reduce success by 99 percent.

Spawning success is even more sensitive to temperature. Although adults can stand water temperatures up to 64deg. F, eggs do best with temperatures of no more than 36deg. F. Temperatures above 46deg. F can reduce survival by at least 75 percent.

Since that day on the Upper Gefordenswartz River in Western Montana, I have been interested in Bull Trout Several trips to the Oregon's Metoluis River where they are plentiful has been both a humbling and productive experience. The Metoluis Bulls are a protected specie and must be returned to the water and barbless hooks are a must. While there seems to be a year-round population of Bulls, there are migratory runs where herds of them come out of Lake Billy Chinook, looking for a place to spawn, cooler water, and to eat the thousands of Kokanee salmon which also migrate out of the lake.

The Metoluis is as clear as charcoal filtered Icelandic vodka and events ten feet deep are not hidden from the polarized view of the angler. It takes a bit of looking to find a "dolly hole" as they are known locally and much easier to ask at the local general store, "Camp Sherman." "Oh, you will find some fish below the Fensterwinder Bridge, and there are always a few in the hole at Semper-linden Campground. Need any flies?" "Sure" you respond, and they get out a couple of flies which are similar in size and appearance to a dead rabbit. No head, of course. "Toss one of these in there and jig it about, was the advice." Thus equipped, you wonder how you are going to manage a cast with that nice five weight rod you are using.

You can't, of course, and this is the first lesson in How To Catch A Bull Trout. You need an eight weight rod, no less, just to fling the flies. Alternatively there are nymphs, #2 Tung-head Black Buggers, and big stonefly nymphs. Still need that big rod, though. These fish grow to twenty pounds and while they don't leap like rainbows or run like steelhead, they are stronger than just about any fresh water fish.

If you are the type of fisherman who likes to get on the river at dawn, then dead rabbit flies are the thing. In the low light of dawn these cannibals will fight each other to get to the artfully presented fly. When the sun gets on the water, these monsters assume the sunken log position, often lining up nose to tail for many yards in a hole. This is nymphing time and seldom will a fish move more than a couple of inches for a drifted nymph. Right on the nose is the rule here, bumped along the bottom. A bobber is suggested as the take is seldom seen. You just kind of loose track of the fly. Easy enough to do, even with waters as clear as a blue-flamed glass of Sambucco.

Be ready to loose flies by the handful. Be ready to run downstream as an enormous fish gets into the fast water and you don't have a chance in Hell of staying with him. Be ready to fall well over your waders in the 40 degree water. Be prepared to have adjacent campers laugh themselves silly when you do. And finally, don't be surprised if your hook breaks or straightens out. A day of Bull fishing should be followed by Dinner at the Kokannee Cafe, accompanied by any '98 Oregon Cabernet.

A fish that lives over 20 years and is the official fish of Alberta is a worthy challenge and should be quickly released after landing.

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Travel, combined with a hobby is the best of both worlds. A good fishing trip, like a well-cooked meal or well-lived life, always ends a little too soon. The Roman poet Horace understood the temporal nature of earthly things when he wrote, "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero!" Translation: "Seize the day, put not trust in the morrow!" A wise angler understands that every trip to the water is unique.

Nature is constantly changing; no one fishes the same water twice, even if he spends a lifetime casting into a single pond. Heraclitus said, "You could not step twice into the same river: for other waters are ever flowing on to you." The fish, water and weather are in a state of constant flux, more important, the angler himself is changing with each passing day. The philosopher and writer, Albert Carnus, wrote, "Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present." And so it is with a fishing trip. The trip altogether is too brief, so why not savor every moment? Carpe Diem--the trip is brief--enjoy it!

Several years ago, my sister gave me a book titled "The Fishing Doctor" in which the author lists the 20 trout streams in the United States (the lower 48), I thought it would be fun and challenging to fish as many as I could on vacations, combined medical meetings or missionary trips. My plan was to create a great fishing odyssey combined with travel. To date, I have fished 16 of the 20 with four to go (Nos. 2, 12, 14 and 17). By the time this article is read, I will have floated the Green River through the Flaming Gorge in Utah with my wife and daughter.

Fishing the clear, spring-fed rivers and creeks gives you a chance to travel America and the world, which is both educational and inspiring, I have broadened this interest of traveling and fishing, by combining it with medical missions. Packing my trusty fishing equipment, I have had an opportunity to fish in the Mekong River system in Cambodia, the high mountain lakes in the Caucasus Mountains in Armenia, chalk streams in England, the local creeks in Missouri. In each spot, I have met people in places that give life a richer meaning. As physicians, we realize that life can be sweet, by short, and we should enjoy every moment, therefore, Carpe diem!

References:

1. Freeman C. The Fisherman's Guide to Life, Walnut Grove Press; 1996
   
   
2. Jones RF. The Fishing doctor. Villard Books; 1992.
   
   

1. Bighorn River south of Hardin, Montana
2. Green River below Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Utah
3. Upper Yellowstone River in Wyoming and Montana (above Livingston)
4. San Juan River in New Mexico
5. Beaverkill River near Roscoe, New York
6. Upper Delaware River in south central New York
7. Au Sable River in Lower Peninsula of Michigan
8. Deschutes River in Oregon
9. Madison River near Ennis, Montana
10. White River below Bull Shoals Dam, Arkansas
11. South Platte River upstream of Deckers, Colorado
12. Spruce Creek south of State College, Pennsylvania
13. Upper Missouri River below Holter Dam near Wolf Creek, Montana
14. Silver Creek near Ketchum, Idaho
15. Henry's Fork of the Snake River in southeastern Idaho
16. South Fork of the Snake River in Idaho
17. Upper Connecticut River above Bloomfield, Vermont,and North Stratford, New Hampshire
18. Fall river near Redding, California
19. Hat Creek, California
20. Brule River from Solon Springs, Wisconsin to Lake Superior

Your entertainment committee has reserved a block of rooms for the weekend at Sand Spring Resort. We'll have a private get together Saturday evening in the party room for club members followed by a super dinner in the Sand Spring Restaurant.

The spring creek will be open for no-creel fishing, but limited to flies and artificials (no bait). Instead of the daily tag of summer, you need a TROUT PERMIT ($7.00), good until February 2002, which is good at all four trout parks. You canget one anywhere Missouri licenses are sold. (A Missouri license is also required.) No daily tag is required.

Again, we are offering package plans for accommodations plus tickets to the private Club social hour and traditional Ozark buffet (all you can eat) dinner. Types of accommodations and rates will be found in the Reservation Request elsewhere in this newsletter. As always, the social hour is BYOL with the club supplying ice, glasses, soft drinks and light snacks. Your coolers are welcome.

Remember this is a Club weekend, not just "the guys go fishing" at this one. Last year (which was a sellout) we had many couples. Plan to bring your speciallady, even if she doesn't fish. There is fun to be had snooping in antique shops and outlet mall in Lebanon or them all at Lake of the Ozarks.

While this is a party for all club members, we could have a problem again this year with latecomers. Last year we ran out of rooms and almost overloaded our seating capacity at the restaurant when we squeezed 80 OFFers into the room. To avoid disappointment, mark your calendarfor November 9-11 and send your check in now.

We do understand how plans can change. If you have a problem, a full refund will be made is you cancel by October 30. After that date, refunds will be made only if we can resell your room. Dinner only reservations will be accepted until November 2 when we have to guarantee a count to the restaurant.

Rooms will be reserved only as prepaid reservations are received. Please let us know early if you would like two or more rooms together for a group. Reservations will be confirmed early in November, advising you of your room number (phones in rooms). All sleeping rooms have a percolator, coffee cups, and a small refrigerator. The housekeeping rooms have full size refrigerators, stove,utensils & plates, plus a dining table with 4 chairs. The restaurant will be open for all meals beginning Friday morning and close around noon on Sunday.

Wonder if I can get him to quote a price in Argentine Pesos? Which reminds me, in this country when we have a recession, you hear the expression, "the economy went South." I wonder in Argentina, with the current economic difficulty, do they say the "economy went North?" Willie is sitting out the recession and the Patagoinan winter at Har-grove's, as an intern at Hargrove's, I understand.

I really like the idea of the "mini" outings coming up such as the Springrise trip and the White Fly Outing. A real chance for new members to get in on the ground floor of flyfishing knowedge and great OFF hospitality. And for old members and excuse to get out of the house and get wet.

The White Fly is mysterious. Contrary to legend, the White Fly always comes off. Every year, never fails. I have seen them upstream by the Spring, and downstream at Scotts Ford. And most places in-between. Some years I don't see a one. But they are there, waiting until I leave, or to emerge the next night. Early in the hatch, a white dry woolly is productive, but fails as the hatch progresses and the fish get a little more selective. Then it is time for a dun and nothing else will do. These flies will continue to emerge until September when they are joined by the jet boats of the sucker gigging sportsmen. You know it's September when you are beset by boats with large motors and 3-4000 watts of spotting lumination. Sometimes they even slow down as they pass you. And sometimes they don't.

True congnizetti of the White Fly know the nymph has a bright orange tuft at the head and tye their flyes accordingly. Yes, the White Fly is mysterious. Some years it hatches and nobody ever sees one!