Arriving on the scene with a furry of motorcycles, missed flights, and on-time Delta connections (note that, Group Aer Brad "Pinko" Colton!), Group Bers all arrived safely here on the scene of Extravaganza 2009 only to pass into stages of immediate rebellion of not having retained their six year historical moniker of "Group 2". Notwithstanding the perpetuation of a virtual "bee colony" by Lori Ware's balloon infestation of the scene with mock bumble bees and table centerpieces of the same wonderful ilk, at last night's Day One boat reports underpinnings of rebellion were difficult to hide.
Consider the shocking story of Tom ""Sockeye" Thornhill telling of a barren day of fishing a stretch of the Clark Fork between Clinton and Turah [wining him the nightly "Wining Tie-die Award from Miz Lori] with boatkick Angel Perez only to find out on the take out that Fish Wildlife and Parks had "shocked the rover" just the day before to do a fish count then ranging afar to the wacky reports of the wacky boat of Shanna Banana Rodgers and Lori "The Fawn" Ware which reported "beavers, anglers and danglers--both long and short"--a tale of hilarity that ranged form landing an 18" brown trout to coming around the bend of the Blackfoot River to see a nude beach consisting mainly of folks who shouldn't have been in that bare state of disrepair!
With the keynote of further reports being "it was a beautiful day" (read, "the rivers are still in a transition mode and the fishing wasn't all that hot"!), Dave Studeman told of his "beautiful day" as did Kristine Bedford of hers--hers, however, requiring her nursing skills for her proctological attempt to disembowel a rainbow, requiring all of those skills to remove the colonoscopy-inserted hook from the bow's backside (winning her the Miz Lori Start Award for the day). Things went further askew before reaching Hooters at the end of the day (see photo above), with Doug "Popeye" Hamilton telling of "another beautiful day" (fishing was tough, gang!) and of his fishing partner John "The Handle" Schloetter landing "his first trout ever on a fly rod"--congrats John for a day that you will never forget! Another "beautiful day" was had by the McLeran brothers on their first day ever of fly-fishing and then the final report from the big fish boat of the day,Tim" Squawfish" Rodgers reporting of his partner's 191/2" rainbow landed on the Bitterroot "after another beautiful day".
The highlight of it all was the revolution in the making: Group B is NOT 2B Group B; rather, the Tatuies (yes, folks, Circle C tattoos rule the realm here again this year), speaking in unison not only about their name but also about their après fish Hooters "bumper award", have decided that for once and for all the second Group of Der Extravaganza must and needs to be known as "Group Two" so here it is, gang, democracy at its finest hour: After a series of "beautiful days" our second group will from here henceforth forever be known as "Group Two" and so it will be!
Best to all from the wonderful scene of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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