Water Water Every Hare

On golden water

Ribbons of fog hung over Bald Eagle Creek as Angelo Conti made cast after cast into the stream’s slightly off-color waters on Wednesday morning. Things could have been going better for the 17- year-old Conti — at the beginning of the contest session, he had spent 13 precious minutes re-rigging his fly rod after losing his fly and part of his leader on the stream bottom. Then he hooked, played and lost two nice trout in rapid succession.

Conti had just finished the final day of his high school junior year in New Jersey, and his father drove him to State College the following day to participate in the first-ever U.S. National Youth Flyfishing Championship. The two-day competition was held in Centre County on June 21-22.

Conti had only landed four trout during the first two sessions of the contest and now he was having difficulty again on day two. The same drama was being played out on different segments of Bald Eagle and Spring creeks as 26 teens vied for a medal in the U.S. Championships and possible placement on Team USA for future world competition. The young anglers had been selected from their participation in clinics, which had been held earlier this year in Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

In a neighboring beat, Boone, N.C., angler Matt Michel caught his first trout of the session on Wednesday.

“I could just feel the weight being lifted off of his shoulders when he landed that first trout,” commented Michel’s controller, Paul Swanson.

Conti did manage to land and release three trout — measuring 20, 32 and 32 centimeters, respectively, before the end of the three-hour session. The trout earned him second place within his sub-group. Michel also caught three trout, but they were smaller and netted him fifth place.

Using a combination of luck and considerable skill, other young anglers fared better during the four-session competition. Contest streams were high and discolored on Day 1 of the competition, but nearly perfect on the second day. The 26 young anglers landed a total of 379 trout.

Cameron Chioffiof Wellesley, Mass., caught the longest trout, a Spring Creek brown measuring 50 centimeters (about 191/ 2 inches). State College angler Aston Boone caught the most trout — 42 — but using the official scoring system which pits small groups of anglers against each other for placement points, Boone finished with a bronze medal rather than gold. Stephen Salwocki, another Pennsylvania fisherman, caught 38 trout, the second-highest number, but his placement points put him fourth.

Water, Water Every Hare - a Classic Cartoon with Bugs Bunny

Transcript to come

Summary: Bugs is flooded out of his rabbit hole while sleeping and finds himself in a mad scientists’ castle. The mad scientist, done as a caricature of Vincent Price, wants his brain. Bugs runs for it and a big orange monster (Rudolph) is sent after him. Bugs just misses falling in a crocodile pit and bumps into Rudolph. Bugs pretends to be a talkative hairdresser and does the monster’s hair – with dynamite. Bugs legs it again, and finds some vanishing paint. He covers himself without. He manages to attack Rudolph and then shrinks him. The mad scientist then shows up and manages to pour out some ether which eventually knocks them both out. Water eventually washes the sleeping hare back to his hole, where he wakes to decide it was all a very strange dream – but is very confused when the tiny Rudolph rows past.

This cartoon isn’t available in any commercially available collections that I am aware of.

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