• Fun shows on various motorcycle manufacturers: http://tinyurl.com/34rhm6
• Had some fun the last few weeks helping a club member get his fly tying Web site up and running: http://tinyurl.com/dxvjbb
• …and I’m a new owner of a bamboo fly rod, courtesy the club auction last night. Anyone have a vintage reel they’d like to sell?

Happy Tax Day!

• Ah, to be a student again: http://tinyurl.com/cav8c8
• This Lassie came home after falling overboard, swimming five nautical miles, then spending four months living with goats on an island. Milk Bones for everyone! http://tinyurl.com/dfg2de
• …and the Hondamatic concept rises again: http://tinyurl.com/d9ka9c (This new model has been around a while but this is an interesting review.)

• A real-world test shows way better mpg than the EPA estimates for the 2010 Prius: http://tinyurl.com/dcaggj
• …plus not a surprise that Ber-zerk-ly is Califronia’s hybrid capital: http://tinyurl.com/dmuw6v (Have to wonder if the weight of all those bumper stickers impacts the fuel efficency.)
• …and that hybrid battle I alluded to a while ago…it’s starting. From Jalopnik:
  

  Toyota officials have announced they’re working on a Toyota Yaris hybrid to take on the new Honda Insight hybrid for cheap hybrid supremacy. Muscle Car Wars? Ha! Let the Hybrid Car Wars begin.

  Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/c58lau

• Could a Ph.D. in fly fishing be far behind? http://tinyurl.com/djdrkq

• Could mean good things for green car buyers who want to be green while saving some green: http://tinyurl.com/avfzpf…
• …and Honda Insight sales in Japan are double the expected sales rate of 5,000 per month: http://tinyurl.com/c7lgd7…
• …and according to WSJ.com’s CarCast Podcast, Honda Insight pre-orders in the U.S. have already topped 18,000: http://tinyurl.com/cvv5pa
• Interesting commentary on Sacramento’s rush to scream “drought”: http://tinyurl.com/buxopo

• Amazing underwater trout portraits in Catch Magazine (Click on Contents and go to “Introducing—Pat Clayton.”): http://tinyurl.com/cmj3es
• California DFG can’t afford to feed hatchery trout, so smaller hatchery trout become food for prey fish and the birds: http://tinyurl.com/cgrgml
• Who needs a companion passenger in their car when HAL controls your navigation system? http://tinyurl.com/cl85zz and http://tinyurl.com/afq6ru
• Prices on hybrid autos fall in lockstep with the decline in gas prices: http://tinyurl.com/bs89h9

• Not a bad thing…the Utah House of Representatives seem to favor outdoor activites over video games: http://tinyurl.com/autss5 and http://tinyurl.com/cye9r3
• Nerdy (and cool) stuff in Toyota promos for the New Prius: http://tinyurl.com/am4rap
• The good news: hot job opportunities during a cold economy. The bad news: in the cold wilds north of the border, in Saskatchewan: http://tinyurl.com/bswu2r

• A young person interested in fly fishing who can write: http://tinyurl.com/cv7pxn
• Darn! The secret is out (including the Diamondback Grill): http://tinyurl.com/b9geoo
• Don’t see many news reports of liquor stores didn’t sell to minors: http://tinyurl.com/aedxfe

• Oops! (& Ouch!): http://tinyurl.com/cal6bx
• Sad but well written farwell: http://tinyurl.com/aksxv3
• Time to shower with your spouse and plant cacti in the front yard: http://tinyurl.com/daq5kz

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• A real “Green Acres?”: http://tinyurl.com/comaf9
• Always did like the Australians’ taste in police cruisers: http://tinyurl.com/dxv9bs
• No good deed goes unpunished: http://tinyurl.com/d6anmz

• Proof that here in America we don’t get cars with their full towing capacity: http://tinyurl.com/bsuro4 (Yes, that’s a Maserati Gran Turismo.)
• “American Chopper” Meets “What Not to Wear”: http://tinyurl.com/bvokcq
• For a reason why Detroit’s such a mess, one need only look at Obama’s auto team: http://tinyurl.com/cls3m6
• The Top Ten Signs You Don’t Want to Get Stuck Fly Fishing With That Guy You Just Met on the River, by Tom Chandler: http://tinyurl.com/bkbsxm