Smarter than a fifth grader, round 2

SK60 · Senior Member

Smarter than a fifth grader, round 2

SK60 · Senior Member

Well, did I make this too boring or too tough? C'mon James, defend your title! My main objective with these brain teasers is to encourage exploration of the sport, its history and development from willow sticks and braided horsehair to modern fly patterns and equipment. Some hints:

1. Its not a salmon and the location is part of its name.

2. Her family name (maiden) is arguably the best known in the sport.

3. Its the end opposite the barb.

4. Should be easy.

5. How observant are you?

6. First part: 85. The three have been posted before (not necessarily by me).

7. Carl Edwards and Doug Swisher were his friends. The book title has three words and its a phrase we have all used.

8. Easy.

9. Google Putah Creek Accord 2000. This law has now been used several times to help get dead streams rewatered, including the San Joaquin below Friant Dam.

10. No brainer answer, but the question is based on fact. Its one of the reasons that its worthwhile to understand and be informed about the issues because the misinformation usually far outweighs the truth. Therefore, red legged frog is not one of the answers to #6.

davis angler · Member

1. it seems like it has to be arctic char

2. No Idea

3. I though i heard somewhere that early fly tying hooks didn't have an eye on them but even if that's true i would have thought they would have had them by the 19th century

4. A?

5. silkworm gut?

the rest I have no clue about and i have class in 10 min so I leave them for somebody else

brian clemens · Senior Member

1)Arctic Char, or Arctic Charr, I know it’s the only fish found in Lake Hazen, Canadian Arctic
2)Royal Wulff
3)There was no eye of the hook
4)Silkworms
5)Wool
6)Chinook salmon, Sacramento split tail, stickleback
7)Ernest shwiebert, matching the hatch, 2005
8)Scales
9)
10)True

-- Edited by brian clemens on Wednesday 19th of January 2011 11:50:30 AM

SK60 · Senior Member

Brian-you have 6 right: 1,3,4,5 (although I was looking for another answer),7 (partially right),10

DA: 1,3,5

My wording for #6 is a bit sloppy. It should read "decision species" not "threatened": "Decision species potentially affected by hatchery and stocking programs" and not all are strictly "aquatic". Therefore, some may not live in the creek.

drifter · Senior Member

2: Mary Orvis
8: All of them

SK60 · Senior Member

Sorry Brian, 7 was right, 8 partially right (all three can be used, but scales are deemed second to otoliths for accuracy by some experts), so 7/10 right. You had 2 right on #6, but the split tail is not on this list-I believe it may be on a Delta list of threatened species. Among PC denizens, there are some unusual listings like the Osprey, california newt, tree frog and others. Go figure; the main ones are the chinook and steelhead, which theoretically, if not actually, could access the IDR during a high water event.

Drifter: 2 is right-she developed a number of patterns and oversaw the fly tying operations for the Orvis Co, as well as working toward standardizing patterns. She wrote Favorite flies and their histories, published in 1892.

#9 seems to be the stumper: its Fish and Game code 5937. Section 5937 of the state's Fish & Game Code requires dam operators to maintain fish below dams in good condition. Although the law went into effect in the 1960's, it wasn't applied until Peter Moyle of UCD brought it to the attention of the court in '95-'96 in the case of lower Putah Creek. Been used often since to achieve rewater of dead sections of streams.

-- Edited by SK60 on Wednesday 19th of January 2011 05:05:20 PM

-- Edited by SK60 on Wednesday 19th of January 2011 05:21:32 PM