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Enjoying The Sport of Fly Fishing   by Jeffrey Meade

Enjoying the sport of Fly Fishing has been in my family for years and we have a lot of fun with this fantastic sport. The Fly Fishing sport has been around years and years. This is the way the anglers fished for food back in medieval times, becoming a real test of skills this sport has evolved over the years. In my years of being involved in this sport, I have found how addictive it can be and this is because once you learn how to catch that first big fish, you will want to go and keep trying to catch another one. This addiction, I would have to say, is the best addiction that you can have.

I also like regular fishing, this is different from Fly Fishing, although both of these styles of fishing can be fun, I still like fly fishing a little better. Fly fishing is when you use a fly and this fly resembles a insect that the fish naturally feed on, as to the regular fishing when you use lures or live bait to lure the fish to your line so you can hook them. With fly fishing you will mimic the movement of the fly and this makes the fish think that it is a real insect. Plus the line that you use is longer then the line in regular fishing.

With fly fishing you will put your fly out in the water and then draw it back several times, so with this you will have constant casting and this is so the fish will think the fly is landing and taking off again out on the water and it will think more of it being a real fly. Regular fishing you will do less casting because you will cast your line in and wait until the fish bites or if you are using a bobber then you wait until the bobber sinks into the water. This is why I like fly fishing over the other because it will keep you busy and you will not get bored sitting and waiting for the fish to bite.

You can catch some large fish with both styles of fishing and that is one reason why I still like both methods but to me fly fishing is more fun because it is like a battle between you and the fish and this way you are more active then sitting and getting bored waiting for the fish to bite the regular way.

The regular way consist of lures that are man made and made from latex and plastic, where flies are made from natural materials. Fish are much more attracted to the natural lure, at least this is what many avid fly fishermen say and I would have to agree, I know I have had better luck with the natural ones. This is why I and many of the avid fly fishermen say fly fishing makes an amazingly satisfying sport.

Enjoying The Sport of Fly Fishing has brought me and my family together more and not only that, we now have much more fun as a family then we ever did before we started the sport as a family. There are many great places to go to fish, I myself fish in the Great Lakes of Michigan because that is where I live but we also plan vacations as a family to Canada, where this is another great place to fish. Where ever you go on your next vacation just do some research and find the best spots to fish and enjoy your vacation a little more.

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Wii Play Mini-Games   by David Tube

Wii Play consists of 9 mini-games design partly to help users become familiar with the Wii remote control system. This is a brief rundown of each game.

Tanks – This 2D overhead shooting game is the only one in Wii Play for which the Nunchuck can be used alongside the
Remote. The Wii Remote is used to aim your tank’s gun at enemies while the Nunchuck is used to move the tank around the play area.

Charge – This is the only game where the Wii remote is held in the style of bicycle handle bars. The remote can be used like a steering wheel to race a cow to the end of a track before the time runs out. Bashing into scarecrows is rewarded with time extensions.

Billiards – As you would expect this is a Wii Play version of Billiard. The Wii remote is used to select where the cue ball is hit, then the remote is pulled back and pushed forth to simulate the motion of the cue in order to hit the ball.

Fishing – The play must cast their rod by swinging the Wii remote and then move the rod around to catch a fish and pull it up.

Laser Hockey – Like Air Hockey, two players use a mallet to hit a puck into their opponent’s goal. The motion of the remote is tied to the motion of the mallet.

Pose Mii – This Wii Play game uses Mii characters. Pressing the button on the controller changes the pose of the Mii. The Mii must then be manoeuvre into a matching shape inside a moving bubble.

Table Tennis – The Wii remote is used to control the position of a bat in a table tennis match.

Find Mii – The remote is used to select a Mii from a crowd which matches criteria given before each round.

Shooting Range – This is first game available in Wii Play. Players aim with their Wii remote at the screen and fire using the trigger at clay pigeons, ducks and flying saucers.

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Experience the Thrill of Eagle Watching   by Jeannette Balleza

“Above all other birds it is the soaring eagle, with its size and weight, that gives the most abiding impression of power and purpose in the air,” declared Edwin Way Teale in Atlantic Monthly in 1957. Unique to North America and revered for its majestic appearance, legendary strength and longevity, the bald eagle became the national emblem of the United States in 1782 and continues to be an easily recognized symbol of patriotism.

Once endangered in all of the lower 48 states, bald eagles came dangerously close to extinction. However, due to increased awareness, protective legislation and widespread conservation efforts over the past fifty years, the bald eagle population is making a remarkable comeback, and eagle watching is becoming a popular pastime for nature lovers across the country, especially in Arkansas as well as parts of Missouri.

Kelly Farrell, Park Interpreter for DeGray Lake Resort State Park in Bismarck, Arkansas, has seen hundreds of bald eagles during her numerous jaunts as an eagle-watching tour guide. “It never gets old,” she remarked. “They are amazing and captivating each and every time I get a glimpse.”

Park Interpreter Sarah Keating of Lake Dardanelle State Park concurred. “The feeling of seeing this majestic bird soaring across the lake for the first time is still awe-inspiring even to me. Therefore, any time you can help a visitor experience a ‘first’ like this is truly gratifying.”

Bald eagles follow seasonal food supplies, so they travel south along the Mississippi Flyway from around Canada, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois when the northern waters begin to freeze. Migratory patterns vary according to John Morrow, Park Interpreter at Petit Jean State Park. “Some eagles are here year-round, and some are coming in from Canada and the far northern states. Some don’t migrate at all–like in Alaska, where they are almost as common as dirt.”

Eagles begin to arrive in Arkansas as early as mid-October and stay all winter long, departing around February and as late as mid-March. Over 1,700 eagles may winter in The Natural State, depending on weather conditions. Wintering eagles favor the Ouachitas and Ozarks for the excellent habitat replete with open waters, food and shelter. “The locations they choose are usually remote with little disturbance, and good winter roosting areas are available,” commented Park Naturalist Merle Rogers of Roaring River State Park in Cassville, Missouri.

Mainly fish eaters, bald eagles are attracted to the area’s abundant lakes, undeveloped shorelines, countless streams and wild rivers. “When the lake’s surface water temperature falls to 41-42º F, there is a mass die-off of shad, a small fish that is a favorite among eagles,” revealed guide Jay Viator of Belle of the Ozarks in Eureka Springs. “Young, immature bald eagles, not yet skilled at catching fish, frequent chicken barns in the area to eat dead chickens thrown out by farmers,” he continued.

In addition to fish and carrion, eagles feed on turtles, waterfowl and small mammals, which they hunt themselves or pirate from smaller raptors. “They are lazy birds!” exclaimed Park Interpreter Lori Anderson of Petit Jean State Park. “They want to find food without much work. Being the largest bird around, the eagle will steal food that other birds catch.”

While bald eagles are unscrupulous when it comes to finding meals, they remain faithful mates. At age 4 or 5, an eagle reaches sexual maturity and shifts its focus to both finding a mate and raising offspring. The typical courtship ritual includes aerial somersaults during which the pair whirls through the air with locked talons. Eagles can live up to 30 years in the wild, and they mate for life.

Producer Gary Cooley of Ozark Mountains Website, Inc., named His Place Resort on the White River just outside of Mountain Home as the premier place for watching an eagle pair that returns each year to nest.

“These eagles are fascinating to watch. The male brings sticks and other nesting materials to the female, who promptly throws them away. Then the bickering starts between the two birds,” he shared.

The peak months for eagle watching are December through February, and January is Eagle Awareness Month in Arkansas. When embarking on an eagle-watching expedition, keep the following in mind:

Get out early.
Eagles soar in thermal updrafts, so the best time to see one in the air is when the temperature is rising during mid- to late morning.

Stay behind a blind.
A tree or car acts as an effective blind. Eagles sometimes are shy creatures. People walking around or towards a perched eagle will chase it off its roost, and flying away drains energy needed by the eagle to survive in winter temperatures.

Look near the waterways.
For the most part, eagles stay 3/4 of the way up trees while fishing from the banks. Their white heads and tail feathers are easy to see against the trees along the shore. Many resorts or marinas on lakes have pontoon boats for rent.

Look into a guided tour.
There are many half- or full-day tours with expert guides available. For inexperienced boat operators, running the river in low water can be very challenging.

Report any nest sightings.
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission monitors all eagle nests in the state as part of nationwide conservation efforts. Anyone who observes a bald eagle nest is asked to report it to the AGFC’s Wildlife Management Division at 877.873.4651.

Be mindful of the law.
Possession of an eagle feather or other body part is a felony with a fine of up to $10,000 and/or imprisonment. Exceptions apply only to certain Native American tribes with appropriate legal documents.

Use your resources.
Go to for a complete list of eagle-watching tours and eagle-related events, including DeGray’s 25th Annual Eagles Et Cetera Festival to be held on January 23-25, 2004.

For information on more eagle-watching opportunities, contact your local park rangers or naturalists.

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Luxury Travel Packages for Gleneagles   by Michael Donner

If you are seeking luxury travel packages for Gleneagles, one thing to keep in mind is that if you are traveling to Scotland, you should also take in some of the other delights that this magnificent country has to offer. It would be shame if you restricted yourself to just the one area, and missed all of the wonderful scenery and the ancient and sometimes bloody history that Scotland is steeped in.

Gleneagles itself is a beautiful traditional hotel set in its own 850 acre estate in Perthshire, Scotland, and hosted the G8 summit a couple of years ago. It is a 5 Star hotel with superb cuisine that is renowned the world over, and also boasts three top championship golf courses. You can’t spend a night at Gleneagles without testing yourself against one of these, and also trying out its award winning spa. The surrounding countryside is magnificent and even a walk round the estate gives you plenty to explore as you work up an appetite. Gleneagles is the hotel of choice of the stars of screen, stage and the sports fields the world over.

The hotel offers not only golf, but falconry, Fly Fishing and horse riding among many other sports, and is only an hour drive away from the beautiful capital city of Edinburgh, and the metropolis of Glasgow, and even less from the famed St. Andrews, with its seven links golf courses, including the famed Old Course, favorite venue of many international golfers for the British Open Championship. Tours to St. Andrews frequently offer a round of golf at the Old Course.

Apart from London, Glasgow is the largest retail center in the UK, and offers lots of great shopping opportunities for both men and women, and is an architectural masterpiece of Sir Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who designed many of the buildings in this expansive city. After a visit to Glasgow, why not head over to the east side of Scotland to Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, where the magnificent castle overlooks Princes Street, with its high quality retail outlets on the north of the road and the beautiful park on the south, running the entire length of this mile long street with a five star hotel at each end. Admire the famed floral clock and gilded fountain, or perhaps even try a game of putting before visiting the Edinburgh Woolen Mill or the Edinburgh Tartan Shop, or even paying a visit to Edinburgh Castle that is open to the public.

Edinburgh has a lot to interest the tourist in addition to Princes Street, including the castle itself, the Royal Mile, with a whole town of old houses discovered beneath the city, many said to be haunted. It also boasts Holyrood House, home to Mary Queen of Scots, and lies close to the Scottish Parliament. You don’t leave Edinburgh without taking in the sense of history that just oozes from this magnificent city, home to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, and Robert Louis Stevenson, who based his character Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on Deacon Brodie, a local worthy who frequented the Royal Mile.

Luxury travel packages for Gleneagles can easily fit tours to these two great cities, and some packages are available to make the best of your time by also fitting in trips to St. Andrews and the Kingdom of Fife, as it calls itself. Fife is an ancient county of Scotland where the kings were once crowned. In fact Charles 1 was born in Dunfermline Palace, the same town also being the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie.

Another famous location in Fife is St. Andrews, with the ruins of its cathedral and it’s famous university, attended by Prince William. All of this within an hour’s drive of each other. However, in order to enjoy such luxury tours to the fullest, you also expect luxury accommodation and travel, and the planners of such vacations should make sure that your flights are at least business class and your road travel is by limousine.

Your hotels should be of four or five star luxury, and your food out of this world. In fact if you can find vacation packages that offers trips for just two people: you and your partner, then that would be the ideal. You don’t really want to share with others, and luxury packages for Gleneagles designed just for you would enable you to get the best value for your money, and to live better than you do at home. After all, isn’t that the purpose of a vacation?

About the Author

Genuine luxury packages to Gleneagles are available from http://www.ultitude.com, where you are offered a five star vacation package to Gleneagles, Edinburgh, St. Andrews and Glasgow including business class travel and an individual limousine service for you and your partner.

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