Requiem for the Fish
“Well, about two days later, I did it all over again! I went out and I fell down a second time with my waders! Well, that second time wasn’t telling me to quit, so then finally, the third time, I didn’t even have my waders on or fly rod in hand. I just got out of my car and walked a little ways on the gravel and I fell down again! The third time. Anyway, that was it. I said, they’re trying to tell me something. Telling me I had just better quit. So I quit right then and there.”
Like Rossig’s vitality, so go the rivers.
“Where there used to be maybe a million migratory fish in the river, now they are only in the thousands,” he said. “And of course, in those days when I first started fishing, it was almost nothing to cast a fly out there and hook a fish. There were so many fish.”
Rivers of a Lost Coast will be in Modesto April 16, in Berkeley April 21-22, Sacramento April 22-23 and Santa Rosa April 27-28. Then, sometime in May, it comes to Humboldt, but no dates have been set yet.
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on the cover
Railroad!
Proposed lines ‘set rich blood a-tingling’ in early 1900s
Some Other Proposed North Coast Railroads
Choo-choo Fantasies
Exposing this east-west rail nonsense
seven-o-heaven
Undeterred Will
Will chides Andrew for lack of attention to detail and makes plans for his inevitable victory.
Recent short stories
June 11, 2009
Eye of the Beholder
June 11, 2009
Double Down
May 21, 2009
Pearls and Swine
Hank Sims
Today
44th Annual Kinetic Grand Championship Race
STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
Flow 2012 Fashion Show
STAFF PICK / events / 8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Student designed and produced clothing. Fundraiser for Arcata Arts Institute. $35/$25 students. artsinstitute.net. 822-1220.
Woodside Preschool's Rummage/Bake Sale
events / 8 a.m.-noon. Woodside Preschool, 900 Hodgson St, Eureka. www.woodsidepreschool.com. 445-9132.
Lanphere Dunes Restoration
STAFF PICK / outdoors / 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meet at Pacific Union School. Help remove non-native invasives at the Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Tools and gloves provided, wear work clothes and bring water. Carpool to the protected site. 444-1397.
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