Show IritermountainHr I April 2004 11 Fishing a wondrous pursuit especially for women Carrie Brown Intermountain Angler columnist ' he television ad seems familiar to me a young girl with braided hair pecks over the edge of a rowboat to glance at the : calm water below Her father tends to his fishing rod at the other end of the Idaho when my hrmhers and I would water thciralready lush yard and anxiously await the fall of darkness to begin our questOur artillery consisted of electric rixls flashlights and bait boxes to support an evening of plucking the fat slimy creatures from the boat while the sun reflects off the glassy surface of the lake Then her thoughts become audible as she says “Take me fishing because my wedding will he sooner than you think" Like me you may have seen this TV commercial or others like it presented by the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation and reminisced about your own experiences as a novice angler The n collection of a or so advertisements dubbed the Water Works Wonders campaign sheds light on the powerful impel fishing can have on both young and old male and female alike (I rowing up as the only girl in a family of four brothers1 was exptsed to the wonders offishing at an early age' Twelve models Including Oval Teardrop Catch and Release Canoe and Guide Boat Featuring combinations of select North American woods- Vfalnut Cheny Ash and Sitka- Spruce All Blue Ribbons Nets ate guaranteed for life against failure of materials or workmanship Replacement net bags are' always available' Every Blue Ribbon Net is handcrafted in Boseman MT and available at quality fly shops earth- It was an exciting task to package the bait in newspper envelops and sellthem by the pound at the local bait shop The best prt was not the spnding money ' that we earned but ' saving the best crawlers for our own g excursions Snake River at the along Thousand Springs near ' Hagerman Idaho ' " half-doze- trout-fishin- As a teenager my fondness for fishing grew' when my family hail ‘planned a special outing : to Silver (’reek v the high- - - desert spring-fee- l stream in south central Idaho tofly fish for world-clas- s J irairtbows and brown ' trmit: 1 In fact The Finest Nets Available s I was just - p V- me in an four years old when my - Outfitting AKHit BWJATS ' r o ueoprtne parents tdok us fishing' Fly fishing with emergers on Owyhee River intxraI1llr boots mv dad ' and waders and Brown netted Carrie her for planter trout on southeastern Oregon ‘ husband creel full of browns' sent ine out to try my : Penny Lake near' ' ' ' 'v hand at fly fishing V ' Ketchum Idaho My ' Somehow I even wrangled the use of mv own memory of the trip is vague at best hut ' fly rixi thiii trip - a luxury in a according to my dad wccaught plenty of fish ' family 1 didn’t flitch a thing hilt along with' v 'using a dry fly on a spinning rod with a clear ' ' the lesson I received in ptience I shared ' bubble He was sure the experience would be ' priceless moments with' my brothers as they alluring a mayfly and inake a At eight years old and still in pjgtails I taught me how to respectable line presentation discovered live bait! or more specifically — mglitcrawlers I remembcT many summers 'i ('ohtiniurd on ntjii fnige spent at in’v grandparent s house in Twin Falls pan-siz- ed r male-domina- tie-m- i ' nt tf you've never had a Blue Ribbon Net in your hands we suggest you pick one up compare Blue Ribbon Nets Bozeman MT 40&58&9354 Made in the USA |