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Tying Tip- Magnets
Late Night Tying Disaster!
I spilled an entire storage box of hooks into my wastebasket and all over the floor. I had to come up with a way to recover my hooks. A magnet had to be the easiest way to accomplish the recovery. So in the morning I headed off to Home Depot in search of a hook picker upper solution. I found some small high powered magnets that I attached to a tongue depressed with 5 minute epoxy and presto a home made hook picker upper. This worked remarkably well. I got 99% of the hooks. I'm sure I will find the remaining 1% when I am walking around barefoot. I used the new "wand" in the wastebasket and it got the majority of the hooks there too.
After looking round my tying desk I realized that magnets could be used in a number of applications. The 25 packs of Umpqua hooks come on a magnetic square. I had always pitched the squares in the past. After a new purchase of hooks, I took the magnetic square and permanently attached (5 minute epoxy) them to the bottom of my tying wastebasket (A clean 5 gallon paint bucket). Now, stray hook that make their way into my wastebasket stick to the magnets. When I empty the basket I recover the stray hooks that are sticking to the magnets on the bottom of the wastebasket.
I also use a magnet to magnetize my tying scissors slightly to aid in picking up hooks off of my tying desk while I am tying.
Something to try.
Scott M
Snow = H2O
Snow = H2O
107 +107 +107 +127 +137 +140 151 +160 = 126.......Huh?
It actually does add up. As of March 15th 2008 the state of Colorado is sitting at 126% of normal for our snow pack.
ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/CO/Snow/snow/watershed/daily/co_update_snow.pdf
This is great news for our rivers, reservoirs and especially our fisheries. After years of lower than average snow levels, 2008 is shaping up as a banner snow year. Have we finally shaken the drought? Only time will tell.
Look for our rivers to experience a longer than average run-off period, perhaps well into July. In the short term, that's not the best scenario for fishing but if we end up getting some flushing flows, watersheds like the South Platte Drainage (Especially Cheesman Canyon) will benefit immensely.
My advice: Get out, go fish and enjoy the Spring fishing because the run-off is right around the corner!
P.S. As I am writing this, it is snowing and the weather service is predicting 6"-16" inches of the white stuff.
Scott M
I saw him play live unannounced in Livingston, MT. Officially became a parrott head after that night. Wha****er do you fish there in Colorado. I have a few buddies there (Montrose, Vail, and Loveland). A trip to the Gunnison seems well worth it, but I don't know much about the front range, other than the S. Platte.
Whitefish10:24 PM MST