Uncle DIck !!!!!!

If you can read just one book this year ! Make it by Quackenbos !!!

How about this for a title.


GEOLOGICAL ANCESTORS OF THE BROOK TROUT: AND RECENT SAIBLING FORMS FROM WHICH IT EVOLVED BY JOHN D. QUACKENBOS


This is the 1916 first edition and printed for the Anglers Club of New York.  One of the scarcest books publsihed by the famous Anglers Club of New York. 
You can buy it on eBay.  I can vouch for the scarcity as I have never seen one !!!!
  
For those that didn't know what a Saibling is ................. 


Sai´bling
n. 1. A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus): - called also Bavarian charr.

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I've been tying this winter

Focusing on Soft Hackles in 2011... Any thoughts on best colors ?

Alaska Shots

Mountain Lion Update

Ray County mountain lion killed

Reported Tuesday. A Ray County cattleman's coonhounds treed this young male before the cattleman shot it in the head with a .22-caliber rifle.

The 115.2-pound animal makes only the 12th official sighting of a mountain lion in Missouri since 1994.

The body, a .22-caliber slug lodged in the brain, was sprawled on the autopsy table waiting for the scalpel.

Weight: 115.2 pounds.

Length: 79 inches.

Age: Perhaps three years, maybe younger, according to the sharp white teeth and markings on the inside of the legs.

The anatomical evidence that most interested the scientists: The dead mountain lion — nicknamed the Ray County Cat — was male.

And with that, Missouri’s Mountain Lion Response team sighed with relief.

Had it been a wild female, it would have signaled the state could have a breeding population of the big cats. Of the dozen confirmed sightings since 1994, only one — the team’s first investigation — was a female. In that case, some members thought it was someone’s pet.

So far, it’s just the wanderers, said Jeff Beringer, Department of Conservation furbearer resource biologist, who was part of the autopsy team. That is, the young males looking for love in all the wrong places.

The team saw no signs the healthy feline had been in captivity, such as tattoos or electronic identification tags. Nor did the paws show evidence of life in a hard-floored enclosure. Also, its dewclaws, often surgically removed in captive animals, were intact.

Hair samples taken for DNA testing should show the lion’s origins.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/01/03/2558645/officials-relieved-ray-county.html#ixzz1AVhE4o59

Thomas Hart Benton - FIsherman at Sunset

Fisherman at Sunset

Thomas Hart Benton loved the Ozarks and particularly floating the Buffalo river. See the attached article form Sports Illustrated in 1970

The Old Man And The River

At 81, Artist Thomas Hart Benton, one of the founders of the Midwest Regionalist School of painting, still carries on his long love affair with the roily Buffalo River in the Ozarks

Read more:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1083914/1/index.htm#ixzz1AUUv0kCE

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Winter Ozark Trout - December 2010

December 2010 Winter Ozark Trout from R. Riedy on Vimeo.