Letter: Elbow crowd is the working class folk

Last Wedneday, June 21, my dog Bo only brought the paper part way to the house. He dropped it in the middle of the driveway and laid down next to it.

I asked him if the "news" made a bad taste in his mouth and I got that look that said "You got it right, dad."

I got my coffee and went to the sports section, hoping they may have some Reno Rodeo results in there, no luck. What I found was that Don Quilici has opened "Elbow-Gate." The "Outdoor Guy" has already sold the locals down the East Walker River by telling every California wannabe fisherman where and how to get good fishing.

After 17 years of Outdoor writing, maybe he should take his gold watch and retirement check and go to some of those out-of-state places he has been writing about. Pen his life story or whatever.

The local people who fish the Elbow are 8 to 5 working class and not the 2 p.m. tea crowd. We were not in the woodwork, we had real jobs. We would like to have a weekend on the river and not have to worry about a place to park. That's it! Outdoor Guy you could go down and open your own Valet Parking Business at the Elbow. You could also hand out stuff on how to pick a pinenut or cook a rattlesnake, because there are a few at the Elbow.

Outdoor Guy, you of all people should know that in every goverment organization, everyone has sacred cow, ours was the Elbow. I know the guy who runs the Maintenance Department for Mineral County, I went to school with him. Maybe his sacred cow is the road to the Elbow, I know he likes to fish.

You have opened the door to Elbow-Gate, I doubt you will ever hear the last of it. Instead of traveling around to all of those out of state places, you should have stayed home and listened to the locals.

I do hope the reason there is no poaching or littering problems down there, is the fact they can't find it. Maybe there is a fish god after all.

BILL PYATT

Dayton