Extravagant Ones:
I write to you this last day of May and on the cusp of our to-be-shared experiences together during Extravaganza 2009 with advanced thanks for your upcoming participation in this year's blessed event. Three weeks from today the banded warriors of Group A will don their Hawaiian Shirts (for our first ever Hawaiian Shirt Day First Day of Fishing) to meet the challenge of our targeted river this year, the 50+ mile long Bitterroot River that, today, yet rages in its (unusual-for-rivers) northward flow towards where it intersects with the Clark Fork of The Columbia River at Missoula, just past Lewis & Clark's second wintering grounds, Traveler's Rest, in the town of Lolo, MT.
Since we last communicated, our seasoned band of Extravaganza 2009 participants has further expanded to now 55 warriors, with the addition of CLG attorney John Rosenbaum and his two teenage sons to Group A--a Father's Day group that now features six (count 'em) father-son/daughter/son-in-law combinations! What a great way that will be to start off this year's event!
Your outfitter John "the Great" Gould is now set to launch over 85 boats that, in the course of the Extravaganza, will cover over 750 river miles (that's the near distance between San Francisco and San Diego, gang!); our gaggle of now 10 guides stand ready, willing and able to tend to your every riverside need (including a primo mid-day on-shore lunch, I might add); Doug Persico and his Rock Creek Mercantile staff are ladening in supplies that include a new-issue all purpose wading/walking sandal that should be on each of your targeted acquisition list upon your arrival; and your Hostess With The Mostess, the one and only Kocktail Kathy, is in daily final preparation to make sure that Extravaganza Headquarters is in apple pie order upon your much anticipated and look forward to arrival(s).
And even the rivers are excited, for as recently as 6:15 this Sunday morning Rock Creek (our barometer river) yet surges at an unbelievable 4,720 cfs--a flow rate that we look to fall like a stone this coming week, thereby paving the way for the ensuing bug-life activity and "Free Eats" fishing results. Already there are signs of the legendary salmon fly hatch on Rock Creek (with bugs starting to show up on the lower portions of the Creek)--the salmon fly is a stone fly (see earlier Entomology 1A email report!) about the size of your little finger that, right about this time of the year, after spending nearly two years under water as a "nymph" in its caterpillar form, crawls out of the water, sheds its shuck on the rocks of Rock Creek (hence its [most appropriate] name, btw!) and then flies into mating formation, only for the females then to return to the Creek, reposit their eggs and become food for the now famished trout. Fishing the salmon fly hatch on Rock Creek during high runoff years like this one will make fly fishing fanatics out of even the most calloused of non-believers--over 100 fish/person days on the Creek during this hatch are not an unusual June event!
For Kathy and me, the purpose of the Extravaganza is to open our home and our hearts to those who we have encountered over the prior year(s) and who have touched us in a special way--and that includes EACH of you. As you begin to think about packing those bags of yours, we want you to alight on Montana worry-free and with an open spirit to enable you to fully ingest all of the extraordinary beauty that the flora, fauna, and ambiance that Montana openly has to freely offer each of you. God lives in Montana--it is her special place where special people come to witness and experience things that other climes in this world simply do not have to offer, and that does, indeed, include each of you. As you arrive in Missoula, whether by plane, car or in the case of the "Group B McLeran Brothers" via Harleys, as you veterans well know, be fully prepared to fall through the equivalent of Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland" rabbit hole, for Montana has just as much to offer to you as you are prepare to receive.
In your final preparation for this year's Extravaganza, I would encourage each of you that can to watch two movies that best display what I mean: Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It and our own 15 minute IWFF student-produced, now award winning film Journey To The Soul,the latter of which can be found in three segments either on YouTube under "Wildlife Films--Extravaganza" or right on (y)our very own blogsite.
Both Kathy and I are thankful this quiet Sunday morning that, shortly, you will be joining us in God's Country; we are blessed in expectation of your presence which, simply stated, is the nicest present that each of your could provide to either of us.
Best to all in growing anticipation of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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