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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1968)
Thur»., Nov. 21. I M I (Sac. 1| THE SANDY (Oro.) POST V r j» v 9e ro m George MacAlevy ious diam eters. A number of to taper a leader from the huge different size designations were line diameter to a fine tippet The firs t fly lines »e re lev used by different manufacturers required either a leader too el. To suit different »eights but eventually the letter des long to handle or too great and actions in flyrods these ignations, used until recently, a size difference between sec gradually » e re made in v a r- were adopted early in this cen tions. Some canny Scot also tury. The lighest fly line you noticed that the heavy line did could find anyplace was size him only harm on a short cast H. Size G was a few thousandths as the line hit the water with larger in diameter and so on so much bulk and commotion until you got to Size A, which it put the fish down. The firs t was about the diam eter of a tapered fly line undoubtedly was wooden match, Some of the big born on a stream when some Salmon Sticks in use in the old angler spliced a lighter piece I AUTO-TMCK-PARTS days and still in use in the of line on the end of his heavier 311 E Proctor British Isles and Europe r e line for fishing a small stream . 668 4444 Sandy quired even larg er lines and so The very firs t tapered lines Hours: 8 a m to 5 30 p m the 2A and 3A diameters were were made by splicing level M o n d a y thru S aturday born. sections together in ascending MACHINE SHOP When dry flies came into ex sizes until you reached the istence it was soon noted that heavy size that fit the rod best fo r long powerful casts. The whole idea of the heavy line was to provide enough weight beyond the rod tip to load up the rod on the back cast so the angler had the speed and power of the rods flexing action helping to throw the line forward. If your line is too light, it cannot pull the tip back fa r enough to load the rod and the length and straightness of your cast suf fers. Once tapered fly lines were bushel demanded by anglers in enough quantity, line makers revised their braiding machines so that threads could be added at any ib. desired interval and a smooth gradual taper could be obtained. Once you tapered up to the de sired “ belly” diameter you continued with that diameter until the 25-yard length was ob tained. Tliis was a single tap ★ OTHER PRODUCE AVAILABLE ered line. Users of level lines had long (Form erly Ice Cep Grocery) been swapping ends of the line I'/z Miles East of Sandy on U.S. H w y. 26 on the reel when one end be came worn and frayed or chip ped. The next (and what could be more natural ?)change or ad vancement was the double tap ered line in which both ends of the line, usually 30 or 35 yards long now, tapered from the desired sm all size up to the heavy midsection. This doubled the life of the line much as in the level line. When one end of the taper was cut off too much or too worn to cast, you reversed the line on the Pull and reel and had a brand new tap Clean Oven ered end to cast with. Sometime I - Somewhere! on ' a very windy day, a fly fis h e r man was having trouble getting his fly out beyond the end of his line as the long taper on 35-1 his line was falling back in stead of falling forward of the heavy action of the line. By cutting off a portion of the taper and retying his leader to this shorter taper, he got more weight close to the fly and was able to present a better cast into the wind. Now he was putting more heavy belly into the a ir , and he had to work harder to drive it out in the teeth of the wind. Why, he rea soned, should I have to throw all that weight over and above what I need to load the rod? 5 0 N.E 2 N D G R ES H AM M O 5 -4 1 5 8 <MAPfl> FAN?HER'S PAINTED WAGON C o u n try Store —Specials— Delicious Spitzenburg WALNUTS . 40c Delicious Health Breads and Meat Substitutes Thanksgiving N E IL R IE G E L M A N N A P P L IA N C E S J ◄ 1 N ational Roster Lists Devecka UNION PACIFIC k So, this angler went home and started splicing. He step ped up size by size In a short taper from an H tip to a B diameter belly about 25 feet long, then using slightly longer lengths, tapered back down, step by step, a size at a time to a G section which comprised the balance of his line. Thus the firs t weight forw ard or “ Torpedo Head” line was born. I purchased my firs t weight forward line in 1938, to match a light weight Jay Harvey sev en-foot rod. It was a Hedge taper and had a few extra fea tures not found on any other manufacturers lines. By stan dard nomenclature of the tim e it would have been called an IC F . Tliis line had five feet of I at the bp, then tapered rapidly to a short “ C” " b e lly ” or “ head” section. It then tapered back down slowly to an F diameter which was denser and reinforced with e x tra fib ers to give greater wear, as when using this lin e, the head sec tion was all out of the guides in the a ir and the line you hand led and worked with was the “ F ” section. 1 lost this line to dry rot after a few years’ use. Quite a few of these Tor pedo head lines, as they were p rim arily known at that tim e, were put out by a ll the line manufacturers in the late th ir ties. AU these early numbers were of silk. It is s till possible to get these in silk but they are imported. I know of no domes tic manufacture of silk fly lines today. After the w ar, these Torpedo Heads, three diam eter lines, weight forward lines, or by whatever name the manu facturers called them, were readily available in Nylon. T o day they are available In H ol low Nylon for floating use and in Dacron for fast sinking. Sink Tip versions are also available. These lines with these long heavy heads are p rim a rily d is tance lines. The Bass Bug en thusiasts found them more to their liking than any previous type because the heavy head helped overcome the wind r e sistance of the bug, but s b ll it left something to be desired. So the special Bug Taper came into being. It differed from the Torpedo head in that both tap ers were short and fast and the heavy diam eter "b e lly ” was also considerably shorter. One manufacturer who made a “ bug taper” made the "b e lly ” sec tion of It twelve feet shorter than the "b e lly ” sec bon of his stand ard “ weight forw ard” line. With the advent of spinning tackle and Its extreme popular ity in the early fiftie s , a demand arose for a heavy but short fly line head to be used to shoot the line from a spinning reel with conventional dry fly te rm inal tackle, thus eliminating the plastic bubble usually used to c a rry the fly out. Some of these were manufactured as short as fourteen feet, and others went up to thirty feet. Nowadays, many users of both fly and spin ning tackle buy “ shooting heads” only and back them with monafllament. This is a favorite line for Steelhead flym enonblg water where most casts are long. With the “ shooting ” head, you work the head out of the guides by false casting, and then shoot the balance of your cast by using the double haul to completely load up your rod. Then, let ’ e r gol This w ill really peel out all the mono you have stripped from your reel In one motion. ► MHCC Runners Place Third In Nationals M t. Hood Community College cross country runners took third place Saturday In the national championships fo r Junior col leges at Lawrence, Kans. F irs t place was won by Cob- els kill Agricultural and Tech nical College of New York, and second place by Haskill Insti- ture, Lawrence, Kans., host of the meet. There were 30 teams incom - petitlon and a field of 178 run ners. Dan O’ Connell was top fin isher tor M t. Hood, placing 12, and Denny Behunln placed 24th. Ship The Strategic Middle Route To and From Eastern Markets U N IO N P A C IF IC R A IL R O A D Devecka, son of M r. and M rs . W illiam M . Devecka of Gov ernment Camp. His name is included in the 1968-69 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, a listing of the campus leaders from more than 1,000 of the nation’ s institutions of higher learning. The annual directory of d is - bi<uished students has been published since 1934 and c a r ries only the names of stu dents whose academic stand ing, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and future potential are decidedly above average. Devecka is currently a senior Named in this year’ s nation al lis b t« of Am erica’s most majoring in History at Fort outstanding university and col Lewis College, in Durango, Col lege students Is Michael A. orado. Tnrï~TTTTTTri» » u m LUTHERAN LEAGUE W L Cotten-Plcken-4 2 9 15 Charlies Chimps 28 16 Ken’ s Kats 26 1/2 17 1/2 Freds Freeload. 24 20 RHUM Dumbs 15 1/2 28 1/2 Jim’ s Crickets 9 35 High individual game and series, scratch - - women, Cleo Gagner, 165 and Doris Lutz, 445. Men - - Charles Lutz, 183 and 479, High team game and series with handicap - - Charlies Chimps, 721 and 1995. SANDY M IX E D DOUBLES W L Pioneer R.E. 32 12 San Ro Esta Lns. 24 1/2 191/2 Heidi’ s 23 21 Brooks Cafe 21 23 McKinnon Ent. 20 24 J.J. W alker 19 1/2 24 1/2 Paul’ s Welding 19 25 Sandy Cycle C. 17 27 High series and game, women - - T e rr i McManus, 505 and 193; Men — Myron Dale, 547 and 223. High team series and game - - Heidis, 2212; Sandy Cycle Center, 796. EAR LY BIRDS W L Gene’ s M arket 30 1/2 13 1/2 Swails Plumb, 27 1/2 17 25 1/2 18 1/2 Cedar Plaza Sandy Lumber 20 1/2 23 1/2 ¿Hardware San Ro Esta 24 20 Snack Bar Lewis Hardware 20 24 Zig Zag Inn 18 1/2 25 1/2 M t. Hood S. Ct. 14 30 High individual game and series — Marge Thornton, 196 and 493. High team game and se ries - - SRE Snack B ar, 697; Cedar Plaza, 1890, Private Robert G. Gehrke, 18, son of M r, v n l M rs. Robert V . Gehrke, Rt. 3, Gresham, completed a helicopter repair course Oct. 28 at the Army Transportation School, Ft. Eustis, Va. EXiring the 11-week course, he was Instructed In the main tenance of the sln gie-roio r, turbine-powered UH-1D utility helicopter. 622 9891 ZigZag, Oregon Quasar see the by m o t o r o l a the all transistor color TV with the works in the drawer t h e w o rk s 10 tubvleea plu»-,n mixful«« «»••» cam ba r«pi«c«d r.<jbt m th e hont« m i m r w t u iiir r r r m Bowling Hews HOODLAND HOPPERS 11/13 W L Bowman’ s 25 8 18 1/2 Alpine Hut 14 1/2 Washing Well 17 1/2 15 1/2 Post Electric 17 16 B. Tavern 16 17 C A L Lumbr. 16 17 Barlow T ra il 15 1/2 17 1/2 Ratskeller 15 1/2 17 1/2 TTi underhead Lodge 14 19 Gay’ s Kache 10 23 High individual game and series - - Jeanine Sperr, 200 and 487. High team game and series — Bowman’ s, 633 and 1754. TRIM TRIO 11/15 W L M t. Electronics 30 1/2 9 1/2 San Ro Esta Snack Bar 27 13 Janz Berryland 21 19 Edmonds T . Ct. 18 22 Estacada Appli, Co. 18 22 Skipper Bros. B. 17 23 Brooks Cafe 16 24 Sculptress Bras 12 1/2 27 1/2 High individual game and series, handicap - - Beverly Buswell, 190 and Linda Whe don, 526. High team game and series, handicap — Estacada Appliance, 514 and Janz Berryland, 1422. TOWN & COUNTRY 11/12 W L Brightwood Oil 28 1/2 15 1/2 M eier Dairy 26 1/2 17 1/2 Baert’ s Metal Products 25 19 Sportsman Club 23 21 Gateway Inn 23 21 M t. Hood Clen. 21 23 H orner’ s M kt. 20 1/2 23 1/2 SANDY M EN’ S Team #4 9 35 W L High individual game and Cedar Plaza 27 1/2 12 1/2 series, scratch — Herb Sand C . Cty. Bank 27 13 ercock, 231 and Udene Urban, Sandy Ridge M . 26 14 573. Smith Motors 25 15 High team game and series, Rexall Drug 22 18 McKinnon Ent. 20 1/2 19 1/2 handicap — Brightwood Oil, 1006 and 2849. Brooks Cafe 9 31 W. Thriftway 37 S High team series — M e- Kinnon Ent., 2733; game, Smith M otors, 996. High individual series and game Bob Pullen, 531 and George Morgan, 238, N E IL R IE G E L M A N N A P P L IA N C E S 5 0 N.E. 2 N D GRESHAM M O 5 -4 E 5 8 THANK YOUR HOSTESS WITH Beautiful selection to choose from . . . G ift w rapped Candy by Rogers, Hoeflers, Saylors, and W hitm an - ALSO - ASSORTED FRESH DOUBLE KK NUTS Pay Station for P.G.E., W ait Coast Telephone, riorthweat Natural G ai SAH Green Stamp»— Clackama* Co. Bank Money O rd ert' ÌÌIYTPTÌ'TnnB y — | " V ° UR f tc x a U S T O R Ìr J 668-4111 • SANDY SHOPPING CENTER M T . HOODERS W L W histle Stop 27 17 W . Thriftway 25 19 House of Wong 24 20 Dea’s In & Out 21 1/2 22 1/2 J. W. Antiques 21 1/2 22 1/2 Ethel’s Bty. Si. 21 23 Dew Drop Inn 20 24 Pioneer R .E. 16 28 High team series and game - - Dea’ s In <i Out, 2644 and Pioneer Real Estate, 927. High individual game and series — Jean Pullen, 193 and F e rn Hunter, 537. SAN RO ESTA W L B ill’ s Bright. Store29 15 A rt Erickson T.S. 27 17 Weaver s D. Store 2 4 1 /2 19 1 /2 22 22 T-J»s Dover Kennels 21 23 Scott’s Bakery 21 23 Edwards Richfield 20 1/2 23 1/2 Burke’ s Shell, Estacada 11 33 High Individual game and series, scratch - - Marge Thornton, 200 and 520. High team game and series, handicap - - Brightwood Store, 714 and 1986. SUNDAY N IT E M IX E D DOUBLES W G eh rke Trains u t i t t ii Turkey or H a m C ^ | I Dinner X B A R L O W T R A I L ----- L Pioneer R .E. 28 16 Sandy Post 26 1/2 17 1/2 San Ro Esta Lns. 25 19 Sandy Shell 18 1/2 25 1/2 Richardson IS 26 Team 95 18 28 High individual game and series — Fern Hunter (sub), 207 and Jo Lew is, 500. Ron Espersen, 202 and Ralph Sandercock (sub), 523. High team game and series — Pioneer Real Estate, 725 and Sandy Shell, 2069. M a c h l-a new Mustang on the wild side. In your Eager Beaver Ford Dealer’s Performance Comer. Mow—for the Mach 1 Mustang . . , 361-cu In. V-8 standard. GT handling suspension, tow-glara hood and cowl paint, dual racing mirror». bolted wtdo-ovala and more—all included. Great options —V-6'a up to 428 cube», front disc brake», tach, competition sus pension. Drive one—at the awlnglaat Eagar Beaver's In the woods. GLOS FORD M t. Hood Hwy. * Tan Eyck Rd. ■ SANDY. OREGON NEED A GOOD USED CAR? 8EE YOUR FORD DEALER—HIS ARE ALL A-1> 7
