Grandpa: The trouble with common sense is, it's not too common. But this time we are in full agreement. I doubt fishing will ever be a mainstream course, but it sure wouldn't hurt if it was. I dang near flunked out of high school, in part, because about all I could think about was fishing. I skipped several times to go fishing. Later, when I moved to a college near my favorite fishing area, I made the Deans Roll every quarter. What's my point? I think many a boy and girl might look forward to school a bit more if they had some classes they really looked forward to, like Trout Fishing 101.

I often feel sorry for the kids in Cherry Valley school. It sits on a hillside overlooking the Cherry Valley hunting area and, beyond that, the Snoqualmie River. Man how those kids must daydream while watching a field full of hunters and their dogs, on a fall morning.