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Thur«., Oct. 6, »M*
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By George MacAlevy
ANO MRS. WILLIAM BOOTH
Wed 65 Years
Neighbors and friends from
Tile celebration took place
rwar and far attended the recent at the Booth home on Rt. 1,
open house in honor <4 the 6!>th Boring, the afternoon of Sin-
wedding anniversary of Mr, and day, Sept. 25 and was given by
Mrs. William Booth, well known the memlMT.s of the Booth fam
area residents.
ily.
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Brightwood
Extension
The Brightwixrf Home Ex-
tension Unit is to hold its
monthly moating at 10:30 a.m.,
Thursday, Oct. 14, in the home
erf Sadie Weng-from, Mountain
Air Park.
The program to be presented
by
Betty Rota and Carol
Schnare is '‘Laundry Wash
and Wear and Other New Fab-
ric»” and will provide Informa
tion on suitable water tempera
tures, use <rf bleaches, removal
at stains, etc.
Luncheon will be provided by
the hostesses Sadie Wengstrom,
Marg Frazier, Rudy Kasch,
and Diane Peterson.
In addition to the regular
meetings, members of the unit
interested in various arts and
crafts instruction and work are
holding twice — monthly ses
sions on the first and third
Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m.
in the recreation hall of the
Hood Course Mobile Trailer
¡Estates, Welches Road. Cur
rently the women are engaged
in working on articles to be
available for sale at the unit's
Holiday Bazaar to be held In
December.
Any woman from the Hood
land area is cordially invited
to attend any of these meetings.
Further information may be
obtained from Mary Ellen Stauf
fer, Zig Zag, or Joyce Bowman,
Wemme, or any member.
Although this was most in had to be fished from the bank.
The Metolius river at Camp
Sherman la a beautiful place teresting to watch, it wasn't The small flies were ignored.
this time at year. It wa* hot catching any fish. I had with Here it appeared to require
in the early afternoon uf Labor me a box at flies I had tied big meaty looking flies, as some
Day when we arrived. The high from Courtney-Williams book- natural stoneflies uf fairly large
stayed tie low 80 degrees every A IXctlonary <rf Trout Flys. size could be seen on the water,
day <rf the balance <rf our stay This is an Englishbook,written aid some <4 them were being
there. Bright days that were about English patterns on Eng taken by feeding trout.
Here again an experimental
■erftened by a few fluffy clouds lish streams, but the descrip
and a gentle wild from the tions were Interesting, so I fly was the order of the day.
had tied 20 erf these patterns, 1 had tied some *8 Medium
southwest prevailed.
The first morning there, 1 intending to try them. Here Sedges and in the process had
was on the water about 2 hours , was a golden opportunity. Plenty winded two of them with A-
before the sun hit it, and that of fish were present—I could tel ope halr. One of these I
was a mistake. Until the air see them. The fish were fad gave to my fishing partner erf
over the water was »unwarmed, ing on some kind of a fly— the evening and put the other on
the river seemed fishless. I I could see that, too. So on my own leader. Between then
cast pattern after pattern those went a »14 February Red, a and nightfall we took three farily
first hours aid no rises could pattern from Wales. This is large trout apiece on these, and
be Been. Then as I felt old a rather simple pattern con that made my limit for the
Sota
warmth permeating sisting of orange mohair spun day. So, all in all, my first
through my sweater, I began to on red silk and hackled with day on the Metolius was a
see a faint dimple here and a rusty dun hackle. This worked huge success. The six succeed
there and some smallish flies well for about a hall hour. ing days were all good fishing
made their appearance on the Being on a barbless hook, mo*t days, all, like the one described,
erf the fish that took It got requring numerous changes erf
riffles and glide».
By 10 o'clock the fish were oft before they could be netted. pattern and experimenting to
rising steadily, but no takers But before it got soggy and achieve results.
So as not to harm released
appeared for my flies. I had wettable from fish mouthing
tried progressively, large cad it, I must have had ten fish fish, most of my dry fly fish
dis pattersn on #8’s, Hackle hooked on it of which three ing Is done with barbless hooks.
tip wing Fox patterns on 12's, were creeled. By now It wa* The Metolius in the fall still
and all feeding carries a lot of fish, mostly
blue duns on 14’», and some 1 o’clock
rainbow of heavy girth and firm
busy spider types. So, remem stopped.
texture. These fish that sur
bering an experience on this After cleaning and Icing the
same river uf two years ago, fish, the wife and I wandered vive until fall have seen an
a search thru the fishing vesta around Camp Sherman under the awful lot erf flies cast over
array erf pockets came up with big Ponderosas, watching the them, and can be irritatingly
a half dozen Gray Hackles on birds, talking to people, and erf selective. This adds a further
*18 and 20 hooks. Using these course, stopping in atSegner’s chanciness to the game and
tiny flies also calls for a CX Cafe for some delicious pie. presents quite a challenge. The
leader tippet. Nothing larger They make their own and are most important thing about it
becomes the taking of the fly
will go thru the eye uf those famous for it.
Around five in the afternoon, by the fish. Putting him in the
minute hooks. Number 20 flies
and CX leader tippets demand a one of my neighbors at the creel or releasing him is sec
very gentle touch when setting resort took me down the river ondary. Sure, the battle to land
the hook and playing the fish. to an area he preferred and him is fun too, but the aim of
The Grey Hackle red in this which I had never fished be the game Is to fool him Into
tiny size proved to be the trout's fore. This was deep water and taking your offering.
undoing, but the «ids were 60-40
in favor of the trout. After hook
ing 10 fish I had 4 in the creel,
four had thrown the fly and two
had ripped flies off the end of
By George MacAlvey
the leader and made away with
them. As a few larger flies of
When fei-dlng trout are ex for a tall, and hackled with 3
the ephemer idae type ccxild be tremely selective because they turns of a strongly marked
seen emerging here and there, are fe>-ding on tiny midges and grlz ly hackle. Smaller flies
and, wanting to conserve my smuts that are far too small than 420 cease to be practical.
meager supply of #20’s for to imitate, they may often be The wire from which the hook
another morning, I switched enticed into taking a *20 Grey is made Is too fine to hold
back to 14’s and tried several hackle
Red. I tie this fly much, and the gape of the hook
patterns. One fly tried here, with a red silk body, two long is too small to hook into the
received a number
of in fibres of orange dyed goose fish.
spections, which I could watch
in the clear sunlit water. This
was a White Mayfly ( a Penn
sylvania limestone area pattern
designed by Wetzel.) The fish
would rise abreast of it very
slowly, put their nose right up
By NELL HOWE
to It, and abruptly turn and
Hood-Land
Reporter
slowly cruise away. I think
soon
as their place is sold.
left
on
our
Just
before
we
It was the narrow red strip
Sounds as though the mountain
at the top of the wing that vacation, we had to have our
pet cat put to sleep. It was is going through a migration
aroused their curiosity,
a pretty rough time for all of season. I will miss the Purdys,
us. You don’t live with a cat even if I don't see them very
for 17 1/2 years, and not feel often, It is nice to know they
that he Is a member of the are handy to call on if I wish.
Bert Stauffer left on Monday
family. In fact we still miss
for
Saigon to work on construct
him. Old age finally caught
ion
in that area. If I recall it
up with him, and I couldn’t
have stood it to see him suf right, he signs up for two years
and then he can return home. We
fer, so the family convinced me
that it would be better for him wish him well and hope that
to go to sleep. Sure is not the the time will pass most rapidly,
same around here, and I ab cause the whole mountain is
solutely refuse to acquire going to miss him.
With all the planes and heli
another pet to get that attached
copters flying overhead on Sun
to.
Noam! and Walt Blaisdell day, last, looking for the downed
down to Salem to visit daughter plane, it kept me busy going
Dianne at College. It was par out and checking on them. The
ents’ week-end, and they had helicopters seemed to be almost
a most Interesting and enjoyable on the roof, and I had to keep
running out to see how low they
time.
Catherine and Gene Anderson were. Of course I had to wave,
and family will be moving to , like any kid.
If you know of something that
Seaside. I should say, ten miles
I
I
can
put in my notes please
out of Seaside. They have traded
call,
or
drop me a note. I’m
the store for a Trout Farm, and
will be raising trout. Certainly more than happy to print any
should be a most Interesting of the local news, but need the
change from the grocery bus cooperation of all of you. If
iness. Will have to report more , you are having company, or
on the new folks In the store , know of new members in the
when they arrive. Our very best t community please let me know.
to the Andersons in their new With the new phone numbers, to
reach me, call 622-4554 or drop
venture.
Leona and Loren Purdy are me a card to Wemme.
planning a move to Canada, as
Lure of the Week
Nells
Notes
PI Exposition
Service Lines
Marine
Lance
Corporal
Slated Oct. 14-22 Michael
B. Pierce, son of Mr.
Ranch style rodeo, top talent
entertainment, an antique car
show,
flowers,
paraders,
prancing performance horses
arxl 3,000 of the west’s best in
meat and milk producing ani
mals -- these plus i*ople hav
ing fun are the mix tor the
56th annual Pacific Internation
al Livestock Exposition Oct.
14-22.
The Mg show wUl be staged
in the same familiar stand, but
the building in North Portland
has been refurbished as the
Multnomah County Exposition
Center.
Reserved seat tickets went
on sale Oct. 3 at Stevens A Son
in the Lloyd Center and at the
PI box office. Tickets go on
sale Friday at Sixth Avenue
Records, 511 S. W. Sixth Ave.
The arena shows will combine
a Class A horse show with a
Northwest Finals Rodeo and a
changing bill of variety enter
tainment. The feature perform
ers are Mort Sahl, Oct. 14 and
14; Mrs. Elva Miller and the
Your« Folks, Oct. 16, 17 and
18; and Al Kader Shrine Mount
ed Patrol and an antique car
parade, Oct. 19, and the Good
Time Singers, Oct. 20, 21 and
22.
Farm Calendar
Oct. 11 Clackamas county home
Extension unit meeting, firing -
water, Colton, Firwood, Gar
field, Meridan, Aldercrest,
Wichita
Oct. 12 Clackamas county home
Extension unit meeting, Ladd
Hill, Boring
Oct. 13,Clackamascountyhome
Extension unit meeting, Wild
cat, Dover, Barton, Brightwood
Oct. 13 4-H Achievement pro
gram, Boring grade school, 8:00
p.m.
Oct. 14-22 Pacific International
Livestock Exposition, Portland.
and Mrs. R. C. Pierce of Route
2, Sandy , is in the Da Nang
area of Vietnam, serving with
"M” Company, Third Battalion,
First Marine Regiment, Third
Marine Division.
The
3rd Battalion, 1st
Marines are located near Mar
ble Mountain, about 12 miles
southeast of Da Nang.
As the basic unit of the in
fantry battalion, his company’s
primary mission is to locate
and meet the enemy, and to
capture or destroy him.
Private First Class Darrell
C. Thompson, 18, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Emery A. Thomp
son, Route 2, Sandy, reenlisted
for three years in the Regular
Army Sept. 9 while serving
with the 10th Artillery in Eur
ope.
A connoneer in Battery A
of the artillery’s 6th Battalion,
Thompson entered on active
duty in August 1965 and was
stationed at Ft. Sill, Okla.,
before his arrival overseas last
April.
Thompson
attended
high
school in Gresham.
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The Clackamas County His
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day evening, Oct. 10, at Mert-
Ie Stevens' Guest House, 607
Washington Street,Oregon City.
Refreshments will be served
at 7:30 and a program will fol
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