There are still reprints of the diary floating around, but certainly not for $3. The pamphlet with the diary did indeed describe a rare woman.

It would have been wonderful to meet her.

There was an accompanying phamplet which described
the story of her life, also well illustrated and in
perfect shape.

It is a quality publication, and I thought it would
be appreciated, but until reading your website I did
not realize it was such a rare find.

I included a reference to the diary in one of my
columns. See, “Clifford’s Mysterious Morning,”
(Gone Fishin’), Fame Forum, Volume IX, Number 34,
December 7, 2006.

http://www.eteamz.com/hallfame/handouts

thee

A word of warning; don’t drink anything while reading it. You’ll shoot it out your nose.

And once again, I will state for the record: I am NOT Cool Eddy (though I keep running into him on the river).

Trout Undeground dug up this cool gift idea for the fisherperson in your life. It’s a 35-year journal kept by an English aristocrat who obviously loved fishing more than she loved aspic. Yeah aspic, it’s the first aristocratic thing that came to mind…

We peaked here at about 19.6kcfs, though its backed down to 12.6kcfs and dropping. About 3.5 – 5.0 kcfs is fishable, unless you go way up river, so we have long way to go. I’ll be in Borneo before the Rogue is fishable.

Dave R. gave me a neat little HMH case to carry my vise so I can tie in Borneo when I get there. I plan on stupid fish, but there usually will be one fly that they really like, and so I want to be able to tie what ever that is. The closest fly shop is Singapore, across the Straits, so need to be prepared, though I will fly fish Singapore at the end of the trip.

They do have mayflies and caddis flies in Borneo, the most commmon the little black sedge. Someday I want to fish a Giant Cicada hatch. I brought one back from last time as a sample. It has a wing span of 7 inches, a body length of 2 1/2 inches, and a body width of 1 1/4 inches. Spent on the water, the “spinner” is 7″ x 4″. They fall from trees on the water usually and that is how they are eaten by fish.

They look like a giant october caddis, but more brown than orange

- rriver

I met this nice trucker who offered to give me a ride back to LA. Yea,….back to Mom. She’s still really mad about the money. Anyway, I’m at this truckstop near Battle Mountain, Nevada. Been hangin’ out here for a couple of days while the trucker dude makes some drops. He said he’d be back Friday. ‘Bout all he said, too! I mean all the way from Montana, I had to make all the conversation! Sheesh!

So. Mom. Talked to her yesterday. We argued about the money for a while. I told her if she would just fax me a paper saying that the money (my inheritence for sure!) I could sign it, back date it and have it notarized. That way I could have something to show the judge. You know, make the bench warrant go away.

So, I’m glad I found you and your new website. I like to keep in touch with my friends. I should keep a diary too, you know. What with all the cool things that happen to me.

I’m gonna have to try to be a trout bum closer to home. Guide California, I think. There’s a guy that guides there that has a last name of a trout!! Is that cool or what? I should do that too, like Cool Eddy Brown or Cool Eddy Brook. Whataya think? Anyway, I think I can get a California guide license easy, what with my recent experience. I just wouldn’t want to row a drift boat again right away. Man, that guy and his wife that had to swim out of my boat on the Madison just yelled and yelled at me! Just like Mom. It really hurt, dude.

So look, I gotta go. The cook needs his laptop back. Man, does he have a lot of girfriends that email him! He treats em well, too. Always has his credit card out when he’s talking to him. Well, anyway, Merry Christmas. And if my Mom emails you, tell her I’m on my way.

Cool Eddy

Thanks for using Amazon and supporting the Underground. If they run out of low-cost copies, I noticed there were a few floating around on Allibris, another good source for used books (though I’m not an affiliate).

It’s an interesting book, though not the kind of thing you’ll read from start to finish. More something you leaf through.

Thanks for reminding me about this diary. I read about it somewhere, made a note to find one, and then forgot. I just bought the one used one packed as smoked salmon on Amazon.

- rriver

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