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Thursday, September 30, 2021
Lake Powell Fishing Report September 21
Issue # 1429
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Bryce Canyon City Town Council
Plein Air Painters Spent Time Out and About for the 2021 Escalante Canyons Art Festival by Kadi Franson
by Kadi Franson
Elev: 3,546 ft Temp: 75 - 780
LAKE POWELL - Fishing success has picked up since last week at Lake Powell thanks to a small decline in air and water temperature. As the temperature continues to drop in September and October, the catch should continue to climb. Fishing in the northern lake was best from the San Juan to Good Hope Bay. Stripers were much more active than the week before, while anglers also caught bass and (surprisingly) channel catfish in big numbers. We will start with an unusual catfish bite. While searching for stripers and fishing with anchovy bait in the southern lake, we found schools of small stripers holding at 30 feet, and larger stripers 40 to 60 feet down. The best habitat was the breaking cliff edge of a level sandstone bottom where the depth quickly declined from 30 to 60 feet or deeper. Small stripers hit the bait near the 30foot break, and larger stripers responded as the bait went deeper. Surprisingly, about every third or fourth fish was a fat channel catfish. These catfish were not holding on the bottom, but swimming Fishing Report Cont'd on page 7
September 24
Kadi Franson
Anne is an oil painter from Helper, UT. She came down to the festival this year in order to paint at the rim of Bryce Canyon National Park. She was especially compelled by Boat Mesa and Bristlecone Point.
ESCALANTE - Artists from far and wide recently descended upon our area, popping up easels and creating their own interpretations
Great Moments in Birding Memories of a Lifetime
Joao Quental
Dark-winged Trumpeters. ESCALANTE - Recently, Jens and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. On that day, we looked back over decades of events and adventures, many of which involved birding. This shared major interest is one of the glues which has held us together. I’d like to share a few of these birding moments with you. It all began when, ten years in, Jens left academia for a corporate job, and we moved to Colorado. Our first vacation took us on a camping trip into Arizona. I had been birding sporadically for
several years, but Jens figured identifying birds was impossible. One sparkling after-rain morning in Oregon Pipe, however, we emerged from our tent to find birds everywhere. I handed Jens my binoculars and…the rest is history. On our homeward journey, we picked up a “Checklist of North American Birds” and found we’d already seen 200 of them! An excellent start toward building our Life List. We’ve birded many placMemories
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REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST
of the landscape. Working in the spirit of plein air, you may have noticed them—tucked under a tent in town, perched along the roadside, or painting
at the rim of Bryce Canyon. They came to town for the occasion of the annual Escalante Canyons Arts Festival. Plein air, the act of paint-
ing outdoors, has a way of transforming what can be an intimate and private creative
BRYCE - Mayor Syrett facilitated, and Sydney SyrettLamas took the minutes. The Bryce City Council Meeting began with a prayer, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. The council passed a motion to adopt the Fee Resolution - 2021-001. The resolution is to establish certain fees for land use and commercial and industrial activities within the incorporated areas of Bryce Canyon City, UT. Fees ranging from $100200.00 will now be charged for services like Conditional Use Permits, short-term rental inspections, zone change application fees, and subdivision application fees. There was a motion to approve a payment not to exceed $500.00 to cover the costs of food for the recent EMT / Fire Department Dinner Annual Event. BVHS Baseball Field Banner - An advertising banner will be placed on the baseball field at Bryce Valley High School. The cost is $1,200.00 for the initial banner and then $100.00/year. There was a motion approving $1200.00
Plein Air Artists
Bryce Council
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Celebrate ESSAY: National Hot Wind Over Cool Water Fossil Day by Hannah Holm, Director, Hutchins Water Center at Colorado Mesa University, Corner Post with Paria River District KANAB - The Bureau of Land Management Paria River District invites the public to celebrate National Fossil Day through a series of planned activities on Oct. 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year’s events will highlight the importance of paleontological resources on public lands. All events are free, located at the Big Water Visitor Center, at 20 Revolution Way, Big Water, Utah, 84741. Recent COVID-19 guidelines limit all events to 20 participants per activity. Please RSVP by calling 435-6753200. This year’s free events will include: • Tour of the visitor center and fossils viewing, and a paleontology talk with a local dinosaur expert. • Coloring station, Junior Ranger station, a dig-forfossils station, and a makeyour-own-fossil station. • Design chalk dinosaur tracks in the courtyard. • Competitive Scavenger Fossil Day
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Courtesy Hannah Holm
Desolation Canyon on the Green River. GREEN RIVER, UTAH A thin haze appeared in the afternoon between our rubber boats and distant fins of burntorange rock, while a hot wind touched our faces, hands—any skin not taking refuge beneath cool, wet cloth. Later, the haze thickened, mixed with cirrus
clouds and gave the goldenhour light a reddish tint. The river still rushed by, and vibrant leaves in our camp’s young cottonwood gallery fluttered above me. The voice of the yellow-breasted chat that had berated us from cliff walls echoed in my mind,
along with the scent of sage and sumac from a lunchtime visit to petroglyphs up a tributary canyon. I was fully immersed in this place, Desolation Canyon on the Green River in eastern Utah. No Hot Wind / Cool Water Cont'd on page 2
UPCOMING EVENTS... Apple Tasting and Open House October 2, 2021
Etta Place Cider @ 2 p.m. Torrey, Utah
3rd Annual Chili Cook-off October 11, 2021
11:00 a.m. - Chili drop-off deadline 11:45 - Judging Wayne County Community Center
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