Hi all.
It appears they’re doing nothing at all to publicize it, but I will be doing a presentation on fishing the Yellowstone area at Queeny Park in St. Louis County on the 21st from 7:30-9:30PM. It will be kind of a standard Powerpoint slideshow with Q & A afterwards, and I’ll have some free Yellowstone region fishing maps my shop puts together to give out. I’m hoping that more people than my dad show up, so hopefully I’ll see a few of you there…
Wally have fun and represent!
Wally,
Any chance the folks at Feather Craft could get the word out? Their shop’s not that far away. Dinner at Cunnetto’s and a Concrete at Ted Drewes sounds good to me.
It’s awfully late to be bringing F-C into the mix, and considering they laid me off with five minutes notice a few days after Xmas when they told me I’d have a job through May, I’m inclined to say #(%$($@$ Feather-Craft.
The problem is that I’m doing this on sort of short notice. I contacted the St. Louis County Parks department about doing a presentation for their Gone Fishin’ program in the summer, and they finally gave me confirmation at the beginning of this month… and as far as I can tell I haven’t made it into any publications, etc. So we’ll see.
At the very least, this will be practice. I’ve done tying demos, but never a general presentation. Now that I’ve got the info slides and photos all set, I can do it anywhere (hopefully in places where large numbers of potential clients eager to book 3-5 trips/season gather). I’d be going to STL for the holidays anyway, and this way my mileage is a tax writeoff.
My cousin is married to a scion of a rival frozen custard family, but, well, too bad… I’m going to Ted Drewes.
Darn, that’s pretty cold. Maybe some of these folks will show up
I wish I had known about this earlier. Right now I am on a pretty tight schedule. The St. Louis County Parks have been having a rough time lately. Just last month they were considering closing down a bunch of the county parks. (Lone Elk Park being one of them) So they probably haven’t been doing much of anything lately, except chasing their tails.
I’m sorry I won’t get to see your presentation, Wally. And thanks again for the Yellowstone tips that you gave me last year before I made my trip out there. I had a blast and even caught fish.
Scott:
I’ve had good luck stripping buggers off the apron of the dam in the winter, though I’ve never had the 150 fish day there that I’ve had in/near the hatchery outlet at that time. I’ve never actually fished off the top of the dam… seeing some guy get washed down in March when I was 5-6 put me off that forever, even if I do much crazier wading in the Black Canyon and on the Gardner regularly.
A river that commands respect; I had no problem fishing the “town” section this summer but up towards Black Canyon or down by Yankee Jim, if the soles of my boots are wet, I feel I’m in too deep.