If its Saturday nite at the Big Woods Summit then they must be enjoying the Chief's outstanding paella. The pic from above was from the 2008 summit. Here is the sequence of events that usually precedes the final product: First, there is a Yucca making session at about 4 p.m. Yucca is a frozen concoction that lulls you with its sweet and smooth taste and then knocks you out when you aren't looking. After the yucca, Chief is usually sufficiently lubed to prepare the paella fire and gather all the fixins. Everyone mostly sits around and watches the Chief do his magic with rice, saffron, mussells, onions, shrimp, etc. that eventually results in the delicious fare in the photo above. After pounding down several plates of paella, the prostaffers ruminate over the events of the day and stare at the camp fire. Round about midnite the hardiest of the bunch make their way down the road to the Old Tannery Inn for some after dinner aperatifs, shuffle board, and ogling the big woods belles. Presently, everyone makes their way back to Rossiter Lodge and some shut eye. At least thats the way I remember it.
Heres hoping everyone murdered those dumb trout in Potter County this weekend and no one set themself on fire (I'm looking at you Chief). Go ahead and laugh!
Agrontrutta
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I think that it's only fair that you will need to wait for the "official" BWS report to find out what happened before, during and after the Paella Spectacle. But I will tell you this....for the second night in a row we witnessed an ungodly caddis flight composed of 100 gazillion and maybe more caddis per minute fly at an ungodly speed up the First Fork. After that spectacle, we witnessed three incredible brown drake spinner falls. Bowhunter and Chief stayed and enjoyed the best night on Sunday. The trout took every RBF Gumwrapper that drifted over them.
P.S. The Paella was ungodly and so was the port wine.
Coffin flies on Tuesday and Brown Drakes at the end of the week, doesn't get any better.
The Chief never fails in the preparation of the Paella Feast. This year it was the expert fire tending by Midger that made the feast exceptional. The "socarrat" the sweetish dark brown rice crust in the bottom of the pan was 1/2 thick! No one masters wood fired paella cookery like the Chief and Midger.
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