fixing a typo in the last post...not having the best of mornings...
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I've had some requests, so here goes:
from "Fur Balls"
Ralph Cutter
February 2003 California Fly Fisher magazine
Ralph Cutter is desperate. An article on fur feeding trout is on
deadline, and his film from an Alaskan trip is lost with his baggage.
Cutter arranges a mouse photo session at Fanny Bridge on the outlet of
Lake Tahoe... After causing a feeding frenzy with white petshop mice,
the trout ignore two thrown in of the brown variety.
"These trout are fed a daily diet of marshmallows and bread by tourists
on the bridge. In the trout's mind, our white mice were moving bread.
They had no idea what to do with the brown, natural-appearing food. My
article was about trout eating mice, not bread, and in those
pre-Photoshop days, white mice just weren't going to make the magazine.
In a stroke of brilliance, Rusty jumped in his truck and returned from
Seven-Eleven with a brown felt pen. We colored the backs of the mice so
they looked like real mice to the camera, but left the bellies white so
they kind of looked like bread to the fish. Perfect.
I put my eye to the camera and told Rusty to let fly with a bivisible
mouse. I waited a moment, then told him once again to toss a mouse.
When nothing happened, I looked up from the camera and followed Rusty's
horror-stricken gaze.
It seems JR's restaurant is a popular place for parents to have
breakfast with their kids before dropping them off at school. Pressed
against the glass were seemingly millions of innocent little faces --
little faces fully absorbed in the spectacle of mice and men. Men who
were going to jail."
Wes Wada
Bend, Oregon
