Our friend, African Angler, also known Alastair, will be leaving us for an undetermined length of time to make wine in Spain. Those of us who know Alastair have enjoyed working with him on numerous Putah Creek Trout projects, fishing various waters, and drinking his very special wines. His generosity with his time in helping others will be sorely missed, so thank you Alastair for your service, generosity, and friendship. We hope you will be able to rejoin us in the future; until then Tight Lines!
Alistair is going to become a world class 100 point winning wine maker so he can come back and hammer fish. He's gonna miss the Yuba too much not to come back eventually. Good luck out there buddy.
Thanks Cole.... I have had great times and met many great friends through fly fishing and in particularly through PCT. I am truly going to miss all of you guys and the beautiful streams and rivers of CA and the rest of the US, and with luck I will be back in the future.....the near future that is!!! Anyway I have not yet fulfilled my destiny of catching a dime bright coastal steelie yet!!!!
-- Edited by AfricanAngler on Sunday 7th of August 2011 12:40:12 PM
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I thought you were just going over for a few months... Your best bet for getting a coastal steelie is moving to Oregon and following Greg S on his days off.... Rumor has it he can catch them on any day of the week...
Alistair as Steve said sure was a blessing to our group PCT, he was always around and working hard during the fund raisers, clean ups and get togethers. What a great guy,sure will be missed,hope you can make it back someday soon.We all wish you the best. BonoÂ
I will miss you, Alistair--thanks for the fun times fishing and all the help and advice you gave us!! Hope you'll always remember us over here in the States and hope you'll still get to fly fish sometimes?? My brother may be in Spain sometime in the next couple years so-- maybe I'll send him to you as our emmisary!  Don't be a stranger-- and God Speed....
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