A wave from the Tour

Written by Craig McGinty


IT takes hours of map reading and meticulous attention to detail to ensure a successful Tour de France, and that’s justrepparttar spectators. I had prepared and planned out a route that would land me close torepparttar 133215 end of stage 11 ofrepparttar 133216 Tour, a 164km trip forrepparttar 133217 cyclists from Saint Flour to Figeac. But thousands of other people hadrepparttar 133218 same idea so it was a slow crawl throughrepparttar 133219 streets of Figeac, inrepparttar 133220 Lot, before I found myself about 7km fromrepparttar 133221 end ofrepparttar 133222 race. The village of Saint Jean Mirabel had come out in force with good luck messages and flags set up besiderepparttar 133223 route, and even a giant poster suspended between three tractors. Then asrepparttar 133224 leader approached, with helicopters buzzing inrepparttar 133225 air,repparttar 133226 cheers fromrepparttar 133227 spectators began to grow. A small figure, hunched over his bicycle suddenly came into view atrepparttar 133228 top ofrepparttar 133229 road, dwarfed byrepparttar 133230 police motorcycles, television cameras and official cars beside him. And before my camera could focus he was gliding by in a bubble of complete concentration, his machine silently cutting throughrepparttar 133231 wind. Thenrepparttar 133232 crowd caught its breath, preparing forrepparttar 133233 arrival ofrepparttar 133234 pursuing pack, or peloton. But before they arrived there was a battle for second and third place taking place asrepparttar 133235 two men shot past in a blur of orange, blue and white. Five minutes laterrepparttar 133236 peloton appeared atrepparttar 133237 top ofrepparttar 133238 road with police sirens blaring and another helicopter hovering close by inrepparttar 133239 clear, blue sky. This was a much nosier affair withrepparttar 133240 fans screaming for their favourites andrepparttar 133241 rush of air like a passing truck, full ofrepparttar 133242 sounds of gear changes and rubber on road. Ifrepparttar 133243 leading cyclists are like small fish, darting off throughrepparttar 133244 rocks,repparttar 133245 peloton is an all-consuming wave that crashes down onrepparttar 133246 leaders who falter.

Finally Got My Fishing Boat On The River!

Written by NLCATFISH


First fishing trip with boat in 2004!!

Finally got my boat inrepparttar river for 2004. Launched from The FREE ramp atrepparttar 133214 Cincinnati Public landing. Checked outrepparttar 133215 spots that I was shown last October by a fishing guide. With my depth finder saw how deeprepparttar 133216 holes were. I also checked out another hole a guy told me about last week. I caught 4 cats total 2 channels and 2 blues.repparttar 133217 Channels were 3.6 and 2.7 pound. The one blue was 2.6 pounds.repparttar 133218 baby blue was about 7 inches long. It is good to seerepparttar 133219 blues having offspring so there will be more blues in this section ofrepparttar 133220 Ohio River inrepparttar 133221 future.

I did have one ofrepparttar 133222 hardest runs ever; that fish just had my clicker running without stop. When I put my finger down to stoprepparttar 133223 line it almost cut me. I was in 50 feet of water and I tighten down my drag but it had little effect. he just stayed down and headed down river. I setrepparttar 133224 hook and held on till I got him turned. I got a couple turns ofrepparttar 133225 reel and felt him and knew he was BIG! Tightenedrepparttar 133226 drag some more to get leverage to try to get him up offrepparttar 133227 bottom. Had him for a few more turn before he wrapped me on some type of sang! Never saw him for my line broke onrepparttar 133228 snag.

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