3 - Pointer by Gary Whittaker

Written by Gary Whittaker


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Point 3 - Hockey has now become a game of Chicken

Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow are playingrepparttar most expensive game of chicken profesionnal sports has ever seen. Bettman is out to breakrepparttar 133154 union, and Goodenow will not go back torepparttar 133155 table, ifrepparttar 133156 offer resembles anything likerepparttar 133157 latest proposal put forth byrepparttar 133158 owners. The problem for Goodenow right now is that his players are starting to talk. While some players are making fairly controversial statements (look up Chelios on this lock-out), players forrepparttar 133159 most part, just want at leastrepparttar 133160 semblance of an effort made by their player association. Torepparttar 133161 majority ofrepparttar 133162 players makingrepparttar 133163 league average or less,repparttar 133164 only thing they see out of this waiting game is diminishing support capacity for their current lifestyle. Sure, over 200 players have gone to Europe, but that also in not a real option for a lot of players, that have family commitments or other that keep them in North America. They are beginning to realize that inrepparttar 133165 end,repparttar 133166 outcome of these negotiations will not favor them. Bothrepparttar 133167 owners and union admit that salaries will decrease inrepparttar 133168 next collective bargaining agreement. So why should they have to get NO money, when at least SOME money can go to paying their mortgage? A Union is supposed to representrepparttar 133169 best interests of all its players. Sure,repparttar 133170 owners did cause this problem. It is not a player's fault if he accepts a 10 million dollar a year deal. Would YOU turn down that kind of money? I think not.a

Gary Whittaker is the editor of T.E.N Magazine, a social commentary webzine with balls! You can check out more articles at http://www.tenwebzine.com


Selecting Flies for the Pacific Steelhead

Written by Cameron Larsen


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As fall begins and water becomes murky and bright marabou patterns are oftenrepparttar ticket. And inrepparttar 133153 winter I use lots of egg-sucking leeches, bunny leeches, and bright egg patterns likerepparttar 133154 Sucker Spawn. As water becomes more murky,repparttar 133155 brighterrepparttar 133156 pattern one can get away with.

Nymphing becomes more and more popular every year for steelhead, which ignitesrepparttar 133157 old argument whether or not steelhead eat once they enterrepparttar 133158 river. It seems more certain inrepparttar 133159 Great Lakes region that they are thought to, whilerepparttar 133160 Pacific steelhead is thought not to. The extra space taken up with roe or sperm production results in a very shrunken stomach. Nevertheless more and more angler’s are using stonefly nymphs, hare’s ear, and caddis larva to catch steelhead inrepparttar 133161 west. Matchingrepparttar 133162 hatch is not as crucial as it is in trout fishing, nevertheless fishing a pattern that represents a common food source inrepparttar 133163 river being fished is necessary. Nymphing for Steelhead is more successful further inland, as it is thought Steelhead become interested in feeding after having been inrepparttar 133164 river system for awhile.



Cameron Larsen is a retired commericial fly tier and fly fishing guide. He now operates The Big Y Fly Company. Http://www.bigyflyco.com. He can be reached at info@bigyflyco.com. The above article will appear in the Big Y Fly Fishing E-Zine at Http://www.bigyflyco.com/Bigyflyfishingezine.html


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