Out & About

OUTCOOK

Campfire cooking recipe contest

What: Redwood Creek Wines Campfire Classic recipe contest.

When: Enter recipe online by April 15. Top regional entrants meet for May 31 cook-off at Pike Place Market Street Festival in Seattle.

Details: Recipes must be for campfire cooking in Dutch oven, skillet, skewers, cast-iron grill, spit or foil-wrapped meal placed directly over coals.

Prizes: $1,000 for winner of regional cook-off in Seattle plus paid trip to New York for national cook-off and chance to win $10,000.

Info: See past winning recipes and enter online at www.RedwoodCreek.com.

Local tastes: Send the S-R copies of your entry. We’ll give you a local opinion and maybe share it on these pages with other campfire cookers. E-mail to richl@spokesman.com.

OUTWRITE

Novelist to connect fins with fields

David James Duncan, Montana-based fly-fisherman and author of seven books, including “The River Why,” will get to the root of the connection between farming and Northwest salmon in a noon luncheon presentation April 15 at the Spokane Club.

His talk, “Fins & Fields: Restoring Snake River Salmon” is open to the public, but reservations are required. Cost: $20, includes salmon lunch, sponsored by Save Our Wild Salmon.

RSVP: (509) 747-2030, e-mail sam@wildsalmon.org, or pay by credit card at www.wildsalmon.org.

Duncan also is speaking April 16, 7:30 p.m., at the Spokane Community College Lair Auditorium as part of the Get Lit! festival.

OUTLOOK

Best fishing times

Lunar tables from the U.S. Naval Observatory. Be fishing at least one hour before and one hour after peak times. Applies to all time zones.

(* indicates best days.)

Through April 13

Today:1:35 p.m., 2 a.m.

Monday: 2:30 p.m., 3 a.m.

Tuesday: 3:30 p.m., 4 a.m.

Wednesday: 4:30 p.m., 5 a.m.

* Thursday: 5:35 p.m., 6:05 a.m.

* Friday: 6:40 p.m., 7:05 a.m.

* Saturday: 7:35 p.m., 8 a.m.

Next Sunday:8:30 p.m., 8:55 a.m.

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