NATURAL RESOURCES FLY GUYS - BOOK REVIEW.Pop Fleyes - Bob Popovics's Approach to Saltwater Fly Design By Ed Jaworowski and Bob Popovics (Stackpole Books, $34.95) Inventive fly tiers can become well known in the fly-fishing community for a single pattern they invent. A few great ones, such as Bob Clouser and Lefty Kreh, who wrote the introduction to this book, are famous for whole styles of fly design. Bob Popovics joined that elite group when he created his ``Surf Candy'' line of epoxy-headed saltwater flies. In ``Pop Fleyes,'' he tells how to sculpt sculpt v. sculpt·ed, sculpt·ing, sculpts v.tr. 1. To sculpture (an object). 2. To shape, mold, or fashion especially with artistry or precision: epoxy to make these durable and effective baitfish bait·fish n. Chiefly Chesapeake Bay & North Atlantic Coast A small fish, such as a minnow, used for fishing bait. imitations. But there is much more in this book, brilliantly photographed and written by Popovics' longtime fishing buddy Ed Jaworowski. Popovics shows you how to shape flies with silicone and how to create lifelike shrimp and squid patterns. I can attest that his Spread fly design has fooled plenty of fish in Baja. Also included are tips on knots and casting weighted flies. If you fly-fish saltwater, don't miss this book. - Bill Becher THE LURE OF THE RINGS - On the Internet Don't throw away that dusty spinnerbait in Grandpa's old tackle box. The Web site www.mrlurebox.com might want it. ``I buy antique fishing lures and will pay up to $2,500 for quality items,'' Mr. LB writes. The site lists lures that could fetch up to $1,500 or more if they're in reasonably good shape and in their boxes: the Michigan Life-Life, K and K Minnow minnow, common name for the Cyprinidae, a large family of freshwater fish which includes the carp (Cyprinus carpio), and of which there are some 300 American species. The European minnow is Phoxinus phoxinus. , Kent Floater Floater A bond or other type of debt whose coupon rate changes with market conditions (short-term interest rates). Also known as "floating-rate debt". Notes: For example, a floater bond may have the coupon rate set at "T-bill rate plus 0.5%". and the Clinton Wilt. There is no mention whether the latter lure was named for the former president and the basketball star Wilt Chamberlain Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936–October 12, 1999), nicknamed Wilt the Stilt and The Big Dipper, was an American professional National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player for the Philadelphia / San Francisco Warriors, the . Check out the Classic Lures section, which features the collection designed by James Heddon, a former beekeeper and newspaper publisher who in 1898 got the idea to design lures when a large bass struck the piece of whittled wood he cast into a mill pond a pond that supplies the water for a mill. See also: Mill . --Feel the need for snow speed? Speed skiing Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line as fast as possible. It is one of the fastest non-motorized sports on earth (The fastest non-motorized sport is speed skydiving, in which divers reach speeds of over 480 km/h.). The current world record is 252. isn't for the faint of heart. Not when the world-record speed mark is at a NASCAR-like 154 mph. So says the Speed Skiing Web site (www.speedski.com). Surprisingly, speed skiing is not big in ski-crazy Europe. But there are a handful of places in the United States (the closest being in Oregon) to try what is touted as ``The Fastest Non-Motorized Sport On Earth.'' - Chris Cocoles CAPTION(S): box Box: TUNE IN |
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