Out & About
OUTFISH
Bottle caps lure lunkers
Beer and fishing have always gone hand in hand, but a Canadian company has been recycling beer bottle caps into a business that’s caught the attention of anglers, as well as fish.
Norm Price founded Bottle Cap Lures after winning a $50 bet by bending a bottle cap, attaching a hook and casting into a stream to catch a 32-inch brown trout. The rest is entrepreneurial history.
In three years, the company has recycled hundreds of thousands of discarded bottle caps already painted with various shiny color finishes. Each is pinched together over a few steel bearings that rattle and tempt unsuspecting lunkers to strike faster than an angry Teamster.
Check it out: www.bottlecaplure.com.
OUTBACK
Ski resort opens East Basin
Backcountry skiers finally have to share their private slopes formerly known as the East Basin — now the Sunrise Basin —at 49 Degrees North.
Friday’s opening of the Chair 5 Sunrise Quad has unleashed the lift crowd onto 14 new runs over another 500 acres of excellent terrain.
“People who have been skiing this mountain for years now have a whole new area to explore and a quad to serve them,” said Josh King, resort spokesman.
49 Degrees can now move 4,600 skiers an hour across the mountain to ski on a total of 2,325 skiable acres.
OUTMEDIA
Photo contest
What: National Wildlife Refuge Association digital photo contest.
When: Entry deadline is Jan. 31. Winners announced March 14.
Prizes include binoculars, backpack, tripod and membership in the National Wildlife Refuge Association.
Details: www.refugenet.org.
OUTLOOK
Fishing times
Lunar tables from the U.S. Naval Observatory list peak fishing times. Be fishing at least one hour before and one hour after given times. Applies to all time zones.
(* indicates best days.)
Through Dec. 17
* Today
4:40 a.m., 5:05 p.m.
* Monday
5:25 a.m., 5:45 p.m.
* Tuesday
6:05 a.m., 6:25 p.m.
Wednesday
6:40 a.m., 7 p.m.
Thursday
7:20 a.m., 7:40 p.m.
Friday
8 a.m., 8:25 p.m.
Saturday
8:45 a.m., 9:05 p.m.
Next Sunday
9:30 a.m., 9:55 p.m.