Apologies for my Absence

One-pound bison burgers, squag paella, arduous fishing conditions and a table full of booze--sounds like the Big Woods Summit is alive and well. As am I, despite a tremendous lack of time spent on the stream during the past two years. Midger chastised me greatly last weekend for my lack of participation in RBF Pro Staff activities. Indeed, I deserved it.


Although I have not been in the good company of the RBF Pro Staff nor in the proximity of a trout stream recently, I have been keeping certain skills well-honed. For example, the making of Yucca. Midger and I learned just last Saturday that it is possible to make Yucca in bulk quantities. Of course, the most important thing to bulk-mixing is carefully adjusting the ingredients. (A factor, I suppose, which is also at play when cooking an extra-large pan of paella.) Diligent attention to both the quantity of ingredients and the shaking of the jar resulted in two outstanding batches of the spiked nectar, measuring approximately 1.5 gallons each. Someone made a third batch, but I do not remember how it turned out. Probably the best ever.


I have also been keeping my field-testing-under-arduous-conditions skills sharp, and have photographic proof. The first is from a climb in Utah in late February. The other is in New Mexico with the .50-caliber Barrett M107A1. That thing shoots cartridges the size of Potter County brook trout and is louder than Goose after a glass of Bombay Sapphire.