He got the April Fools Arizona salmon fishing joke

Wow, I can actually get drawn for Arizona Salmon! Last year I was drawn for Jackelope in the same area. What's next - condor hunting on the Arizona Strip?

Paul Richard

Prescott

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He got it, too

Art! You bastard! I just read your salmon fishing in Arizona story. How could you give away the secret stash of the fly fishing Illumin-knotty? Your encrypted April Fools joke may have fooled the general public, but deception through the obvious is a  well-worn tool; decipherability is keen with the 9-weight whipper-snappers of the lost, forgotten salmon run. Thank god you didn't mention the midnight snipe run up Granite Creek!

Look, Art, this is for your own good: be watchful of those carrying a five-piece fly rod past your office. The eyes of March are upon you and you spilled the beans in April, which could result in a severe leader-lashing by bamboo rod! Do you realize the amount of hush money the Illumin-knotty had to pay Arizona game & Fish to quash those applying for a permit?

If you're lucky, this will all blow over and the drone fly-catcher spy birds will erase all presence of your actions by removing the numerous snagged salmon flies in the pink Sonoran saguaros. Jeez, Art! Use a little better judgment next time, OK?

George W. (er, ahh) Hayduke

Hite, Utah

Dropped off in an unmarked manila envelope

She was suspicious...

WHAT? How can I find out more information about this article? I am having trouble believing it, I am an Arizona native and have never heard of this.....please advise..I researched the Arizona Game and Fish department and found nothing about this??????

This is an April fools joke, isn't it?

Rebeca Garntz

Chino Valley

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He didn't get it

I called fish & game and they tell me there are no salmon in Arizona. Is this a dirty joke, a hoax or what? I will call back 'cuz if this is just a dirty joke, it's a dirty joke. I'll call back someday later.

Unidentified angry voicemail

Thanks for the brewskies

How delighted I was by your beer review! The piece is lovely, humorous and informative. I feel as if I live in Arizona and not in cold New York. My husband and I may even subscribe! We want more!

Laura Seltz

Windsor, NY

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Water articles get an attaboy

Bravo, Candace, this is great work.

Steven Ayres

Prescott

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Saving Verde trout a waste of time

Do you people believe in evolution? Do you understand that species, especially sub-species come and go all the time? Why is a Verde trout any better than a rainbow trout or a bass? The only thing that is certain in life is change.

Bill

Willcox

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National Trails Day fundraiser is biker spin

This seems like another project thought up by a mountain biker to make mountain biking seem acceptable. It's going to fail, just like all the other such attempts. That's because it's obvious that mountain biking is a destructive activity.

Mountain biking is one of the most destructive activities ever allowed in natural areas, and not something that we should be promoting. It accelerates erosion, creates V-shaped ruts, kills small animals and plants on and next to the trail, drives wildlife and other trail users out of the area, and (worst of all) teaches kids that the rough treatment of nature is okay (it's not!). What's good about that? For the science on mountain biking impacts, see http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande/scb7.

Mike Vandeman

Whereabouts unknown

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RE: Website story on relocating Prescott pronghorn to Winslow

It is happy news that the antelope herd near Winslow will be strengthened by this action but I must confess that I miss seeing the antelope the way I did back in 1980's through 1990's. Wouldn't it be great if development could be planned by real visionaries in our city and county governments such that the needs of all local wildlife could be considered as well as the human community? Is that impossible to do? Or, is it just too “inconvenient?”

Sharon L Petz

Chino Valley

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At Sunday, March 11 around 4pm, while driving west on Rosser street in Prescott west of the adult center in a still-undeveloped section of land north of Rosser, saw one lone Pronghorn running toward Rosser. No herd, one animal alone... what chance does one have?? In Africa, wildlife conservation groups are teaching native people to avoid killing apes for bushmeat and to protect Bonobos and chimps and gorillas because ecotourism will bring better, more lasting financial rewards. What about Prescott? Can we learn what Africans are learning??

Ms. Barbara Allgood

Prescott

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