04-13-2004, 11:34 AM
[cool][blue][size 1]Thanks a lot, JR, for ruining good memories and hopes for some return bouts in the future. Breaks my poor old heart. I guess it's true. You really can never go back.[/size][/blue]
[#0000ff][size 1]The "fallout" from 9-11 is with us throughout the country. Here in Arizona we do not have any places where the thermal discharge of a power plant creates a special fishing spot. [/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]We do have a nuclear generating station (Palo Verde) which is one of the largest in the USA. It is only a half hour from Phoenix. There is a restricted access and a no fly zone around it, and it has been on a high alert status several times when the threat of terrorism goes up.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]The terrorism thing hits home with fishermen everywhere who used to fish around dams. Many once fished in the lake, off the riprap face of the dam. Others enjoyed fishing the tailwaters. Many dams do not allow anyone within fishing distance anymore. That is the case on a couple of my favorite lakes in Arizona.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]I suppose it would be too much to hope that we someday gain control of the radical element enough to allow us to return to a semblance of normal.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]The "fallout" from 9-11 is with us throughout the country. Here in Arizona we do not have any places where the thermal discharge of a power plant creates a special fishing spot. [/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]We do have a nuclear generating station (Palo Verde) which is one of the largest in the USA. It is only a half hour from Phoenix. There is a restricted access and a no fly zone around it, and it has been on a high alert status several times when the threat of terrorism goes up.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]The terrorism thing hits home with fishermen everywhere who used to fish around dams. Many once fished in the lake, off the riprap face of the dam. Others enjoyed fishing the tailwaters. Many dams do not allow anyone within fishing distance anymore. That is the case on a couple of my favorite lakes in Arizona.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]I suppose it would be too much to hope that we someday gain control of the radical element enough to allow us to return to a semblance of normal.[/size][/#0000ff]
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