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2004 Ennis on the Madison Fly Fishing Festival

By Anonymous

August 1, 2004 -- Incorporated into the Festival is a strong conservation theme. Displays, presentations and tours will highlight this emphasis with these participating organizations:

- American Wild Lands
- Big Hole River Foundation
- Ennis National Fish Hatchery
- Madison River Foundation
- Madison Valley History Association
- Madison Valley Ranchlands Group
- Montana Dept. Fish, Wildlife & Parks
- onFlyFishing Fly Fishing Directory
- Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
- Trout Unlimited
- U.S. Forest Service
- Wildlife Conservation Society

Further enhancing the Festival are works of prominent artists in residence and those represented by local studios and galleries. Participants include Wild Crane Studio, Showcasing Montana, Hole in the Wall Gallery, Best of the West, River Stone Gallery, Bear Feather Studio, Rusty Cowboy and Otter Banks.

Adding flavor and zest to the Festival will be a number of dining and entertainment events. Cuisine options will range from fine dining to old fashioned Bar BQ. Evening music will feature country & western, old fashioned rock & roll and lively classic presented by the Montana Mandolin Society.

Admission to the Festival is free, except for ticketed dining and entertainment events. However, attendees are encouraged to purchase a $5 Festival Button to help support the Festival. These buttons are numbered and will make the participant eligible for many raffle prizes donated by local businesses, ranging in value from $25 to $1,000. A special drawing will be held on Sunday for a 15 foot, low-profile Clacka Craft drift boat valued at $8,000. Tickets for this drawing are $10 and can be purchased at a number of locations in Ennis.

The 2004 Ennis on the Madison Fly Fishing Festival will be an entertaining and informative event. Many volunteers have worked diligently to provide the public with a quality cultural experience, but there is another equally important value the Festival extends to outdoor enthusiasts. Excess proceeds from the Festival will be invested directly in organized efforts to protect and enhance trout habitat and watershed quality in and around the Madison Valley. This effort is maturing and more information will soon be available to generate awareness of this important endeavor.

For more information on the Ennis on the Madison Fly Fishing Festival can be by accessing our website at www.ennisflyfishing.com.




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HASSLE FREE FISHING

By Anonymous

Take the hassle out of fishing with this handy NEW invention

Carrying all your fishing rods down to the fishing waters can be a pain at the best of times! And then you still have to carry your tackle and other equipment.

This handy NEW invention allows you to carry up to six fishing rods in one hand, easily, comfortably and safely. No more struggle with too much to carry and too few hands.

The RodRak TM fishing rod carrier rack is a patented, new invention by an avid South African fisherman, Leon Alberts, who got tired of struggling with all his fishing rods. He then set out designing a handheld fishing rod carrier rack to make his life easier. In a two-year process of testing materials and testing designs he perfected his invention that will help many a fisherman.

The RodRak™ fishing rod carrier rack is a compact, lightweight and easy to assemble (no tools required) handy hand carrier for up to six fishing rods. Made of sturdy, lightweight moulded plastic, the sides clip on, you hook on the elastics and Viola! you’re ready to rack your rods (fishing rods, that is) and strap them up.
You can carry up to six fishing easily in one hand. This leaves your other hand free for the other essentials, and under your arms, to clamp whatever else you want to handle. There are no metal parts so it is completely rust free.

The RodRak TM carrier rack is available on the Internet at http://www.rodrak.com>http://www.rodrak.com



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Business Leaders’ will be ‘Gone Fishing’ this Summer as Oregon Performance Training Consultants Revive the Art of Leadership Through Fly Fishing

By Anonymous

Oregon July 10, 2004 -- Explaining the logic behind the concept, Kevin Boyle, of Boyle & Associates, Inc and founder of the McKenzie Academy said, “apart from obvious enjoyment to be had fly-fishing, its use as a resource to teach leadership skills is a well established concept. It’s a perfect tool to build on ones natural abilities, while in a natural setting. Like in fly-fishing, a good leader’s success depends on the ability to pull all of his, or her, skills, tools, knowledge, and creativity together to accomplish a particular set objective."

The idea of using fly-fishing as tool for teaching life skills may well seem a novel idea. However, avid fly-fishing enthusiast and former US President, Herbert Hoover used his fly-fishing skills on the McKenzie River almost eighty years ago, not only to relax, but also to facilitate difficult negotiations with adversaries. His notable success in applying fly-fishing skills as a tool to achieve resolution in difficult negotiations was seized upon by former Danish Prime Minister Uffe Elleman-Jensen, who in 1991 successfully used the concept to broker complex negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians for the ‘Oslo Agreement’. For Boyly, himself a fly fishing enthusiast, reviving the concept of using fly-fishing as a personal development tool was too much to of a temptation to resist.

Asked whether good leaders' are born, or developed, Boyle says, "Leadership is an intimate expression of who we are, while respecting the intimate expression of others. I believe we all have it inherently at some level to be good leaders’. However very few choose to explore where we have strengths and weaknesses in leadership, and fewer yet will develop new skills to meet the needs and evolving environment of the leader and their organization.”

The McKenzie Leadership Academy training facilitators’, Kevin Boyle and Mary Olsen, have both worked in global multi-national organizations; Boyle as a technician and internal HR specialist and Olsen as the chief operating officer and vice president of one of the Bell operating companies. Today Boyle owns and runs a global organization consulting and leadership development firm and Olsen is CEO of Airlie Winery in Monmouth, Oregon. They both contend that these leadership concepts work in the largest of corporations or in small family owned and operated firms, local or state government or in community change activities. Central to teaching leadership skills is the philosophy that leaders themselves must teach. “They can only teach when they are open to learn from those they lead. This leadership approach has proven to be the basis for change and success of many organizations globally. Leaders’ adapt and learn from all cycles of constant change. I can't think of a more enjoyable way to learn and understand these natural cycles than through fly fishing.” concluded Boyle.

For additional information and details on upcoming workshops log on to the Boyle & Associates website at www.workandlearning.com



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