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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 .
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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
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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
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ered line.
Users of level lines had long
(Form erly Ice Cep Grocery)
been swapping ends of the line
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LUTHERAN LEAGUE
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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
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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
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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.
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the all transistor color TV
with the works in the drawer
t h e w o rk s
10 tubvleea plu»-,n mixful««
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th e hont« m i m r w t u
iiir r r r m
Bowling Hews
HOODLAND HOPPERS
11/13
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Bowman’ s
25
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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M T . HOODERS
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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
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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.
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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.
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