As I look back on the trip out west to San Diego, which I took the first week of April 2007, I couldn’t help but think about the number of
workers I ran across that did not speak the English Language. Obviously, communication was some what difficult, if not impossible.
Among a lot of people this is a touchy subject. I mean, if your going to work in the U.S.and earn a living here,
it would only be appropriate to speak the language. But instead of being angry about the situation, I decided why not put a
positive spin on it and use it as an opportunity to educate myself.

Why shouldn’t I make the effort to to learn the
Mexican Language they were speaking? so that the next time I travel out to San Diego I will be able to communicate with them
in their language, and in turn have a more pleasant experience. This would also benefit myself when I travel to their country.

I see it as a win-win situation. Learning languages in these days are much easier. From books and audio tapes to online learning. Online learning is what peaks my interest. I have visited several online sites and companies that distribute the software. They are all excellent programs. Many of the companies use the 4 basic language skills: Listening Comprehension, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. I cannot think of a more enjoyable or useful way of expanding your horizons, then learning a new language, especially online.

Rosetta Stone is an
excellent company to start your new online experience.

If you prefer to go
thru a major online university, you could try
http://www.educateyourselfonline.com

I have gone to the site

http://www.learn-a-language-online.com, they also focus on Rosetta Stone.

There are a number of different options you can take when it comes to
debt relief and climbing out of debt. Which one’s are appropriate for
you will have a lot to do with how much debt you currently have.

For example, if you don’t owe too much money to creditors, it may be
quite possible for you to get out of debt by doing nothing more than
putting together a solid budget plan. Is this sounds like you,
congratulations. Now, if you have too much debt to be able to eliminate
your debt by simple budgeting, you may need to implement one or more
of the following debt relief tips.

Cutting deals with your creditors may be a viable action for you. Most
creditors, if they understand that you are serious about paying off your
debts, will gladly work with you to put together a payment plan to pay
off your debt. Your creditors may be willing to lower your payments on
a temporary or permanent basis. They may extend your payment plan and/or
lower your interest rate so your monthly payments are lower.

You should gather a list of all your creditors and what you owe to each,
along with your monthly payments, interest rates, and other important
information regarding your debt.

Take a look at what your monthly payments are, as well as what your
monthly income is, so you can put together a budget and determine
what you can pay each month to your creditors.

One option that may be open to you is to borrow money to pay off your
debts. An example of this is if your debt is mostly high interest
credit cards. If this is true, and you have equity in your home, you
may want to take out a home equity loan at a lower interest rate and
use that money to pay off your credit cards, while you make the lower
monthly payments on your home equity loan.

If you are feeling really overwhelmed about your debt, and you have
no idea how to start climbing out of the hole, you may want to consider
going to a credit counseling agency. They can work with you and your
creditors on formulating a plan for helping you get out of debt.
Please do your research in this regard. Unfortunately, there are a lot
of companies out there that prey on people in trouble and rip you off.
Check with the The National Foundation for Credit Counseling.

Learn more about how to use debt relief tips with Freddie Johnson’s free articles on debt relief, debt consolidation, debt management and credit repair tips at http://www.mydebtconsolidationtips.com

Have you ever considered the significant role that work plays in relationship to your health? And how health is essential for getting your work done quickly, completely and successfully? More than ever before, practical solutions are needed for promoting a healthy balance both at home and at the workplace. Balance is the key. It is important to remember that balance is a choice. It is possible for your work, as well as your time off, to have a positive impact on your health and happiness.

Here are five solutions for transforming a “rat race” lifestyle into one with a healthy state of balance.

Solution #1: Curb the Trend of Working Longer Hours
The eight-hour workday is sadly a thing of the past for most people whose work does not stop once they leave the office. A study by the Families and Work Institute of New York reports that both spouses of dual-income households with kids put in more than fifteen hours per day on work, commuting, chores and child care. That does not leave much time for exercise, reading, fun or sleep, does it?

In reality, you do have a choice. Setting aside time to plan, set goals and determine priorities each day brings greater efficiency to the hours you spend at work. In many instances you can choose to leave the office at a set time when you plan appropriately. It is always an option to negotiate with your employer to work fewer hours, transition to a part-time schedule or do some of your work from home. By exercising your power to choose and simply asking for what you need, a healthier balance can emerge.

Solution #2: Use Your Vacation Benefits
Vacations are a benefit that must be appreciated for the role in a healthy, balanced life. The Framingham Heart Study followed women ages 45 to 64 and found that frequent vacations cut risk of death among all women by half. In 2000, SUNY-Oswego conducted a similar study of men ages 35 to 57. It found that regular vacations lowered risk of death by almost 20 percent. Unfortunately, Americans are the most vacation-starved nation in the industrialized world. While the average U.S. worker is entitled to an average of only 13 days of paid vacation annually, workers in other developed countries are provided with more than double that amount. Perhaps even more discouraging is the fact that even though 79 percent of all U.S. employees are given paid-vacation benefits, more than one third (36 percent) do not use their available vacation days each year.

With the arrival of the New Year, plan ahead to use your precious vacation days to de-stress and balance your life. Studies show that it really will do you good.

Solution #3: Slow Down, Let Go and Enjoy Your Time Off
Can time off from work be stressful? If your answer is “yes,” you are not alone. One in six U.S. employees is so overworked that he/she is unable to use the vacation or enjoy the free time because of excessive job demands. In a recent survey, 32 percent of respondents said they work and eat lunch at the same time and 17percent admitted that their work causes them to lose sleep. Sadly, nine percent said that workplace pressure makes them feel they can’t miss work even when injured or sick. Developing a healthy attitude toward time off requires awareness and conscious choosing. Appreciate your time away from work and allow yourself some rest if you are really sick. Use your time off wisely to accomplish personal tasks and refresh your body and mind. Your employer benefits from your “real-world experiences” and from the higher productivity that accompanies your being rested, healthy and balanced.

Solution #4: Choose Work You Love
When a job is in sync with your individual talents, values and life mission, working a long day provides a day of fulfillment. People who love their work often report, “It isn’t work!” A side effect is that all other aspects of their life will reflect a positive energy as well. A study by Fortune magazine reported that people who are passionate about their work are 127 percent more productive. With that kind of productivity boost, those lucky people are probably able to fit in more of that healthy time off.

Solution #5: Use Your Time Off to Nurture Your Mind/Body Health
It is up to each of us to personalize the way we nurture ourselves. Here are a few ideas to get you rolling:
–Begin a daily exercise program.
–Be mindful of food choices to give you energy and manage your weight.
–Drink eight to ten glasses of purified water each day.
–Cut down or eliminate sodas and diet drinks.

–Follow a consistent sleep schedule of 7-9 hours per night.
–Start the day with meditation.
–Keep a humor journal of funny jokes, cartoons and silly songs.

–Laugh loud and often. Hang out with people who make you laugh.
–Write, sing, dance, draw or create something beautiful.
–Reach out, pray, love, give thanks and gather with friends.
–Visit people who are sick or infirm.
–Make a list of goals for the year ahead.
–Set an example for others through learning, teaching or positive influence.
–Speak up when something could be better.
–Give lots of encouragement to others who are trying to improve their health and life balance.

You spend many days of your life at work. Only you can make the choice to find the best balance for you. By making these choices, you will live a happier, healthier and quite possibly an even longer life.

Betsy B. Muller, MBA, C.EHP, CEC is Certified as an Energy Health Practitioner by the Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology. As an accomplished practitioner and teacher of self-coaching techniques, Betsy’s passion is empowering individuals and groups to harness positive energy and spiritual healing into life and business situations for outstanding results. She offers life and business coaching, group programs, teleclasses, women’s networking events, and workplace wellness programs.

440-238-4731 or go to http://www.theIndigoConnection.com

It’s 4:45 PM — you’ve been up since 5 AM and you’re ready to go home. You get a call out of the blue - asking for a “quick analysis” of a particular piece of geography for a new location for your company. What data can you quickly get your hands on so that you can form an intelligent position, and how do you use all those reports, anyway?

Site location is part art and part science. One needs to understand the current business landscape, the demographics of the area, the traffic patterns and as much as possible about future plans for development. And, a little bit of basic math helps, too!

Basic concept: Primary Trade Area

The primary trade area is actually exactly what one might guess it to be. It is the main area that most of your customers are coming from. Depending upon the frequency of your sales cycle and the uniqueness of your products and services in the market, you make some assumptions about how far your prospects are willing to go to get to your location.

For convenience locations such as grocery stores, gas stations, coffee shops and banks, people generally don’t travel too far (relatively speaking) from their point of origin. The opposite is true for destination locations, such as specialty restaurants, theme parks, specialty clothing stores, et al. Distance willing to travel is actually a function of availability of goods and services and population density.

Translated into practical terms, a person in an office in Manhattan is more likely to get cash from the nearest ATM (within a block or two) where as a homeowner on an Iowa farm may have to travel 10 miles to get to the closest bank branch in town.

How do you determine your Primary Trade Area?

You could take a map out of your car, stick it on the wall, and throw darts, OR, you could spend a little time with a mapping package and do some neat calculations.

If your business isn’t very dynamic, you don’t need to reassess your trade area more than once a year. If you are growing, it makes sense to make mapping out your customers relative to the prospective pool of prospects a company metric.

There are lots of advanced calculations that take into consideration the competition, traffic patterns, store attractiveness and prospect population, but if you don’t have much time or competitor data, the best way to get a handle on your customers is to plot them out on a map and see where they live. Then, depending upon whether your consider yourself to be a convenience location or a destination location, you determine where the closest 50 - 80% of your customers live (or work). Use 50% if you are more of a convenience location and go out anywhere from 65-90% to determine your primary drawing area for destination locations.

Determine how far people will walk/drive to come to your location. “Ring studies” are called that because the mapping person puts circles around around the location and calculates the number of customers and prospects that exist within each mileage band. Another way to look at your customers is to ask for a drive time isochrone….that is, a unique polygon shape that follows the road network that shows you how many minutes most customers need to drive to get to your location. (Picture a city with 5 major roadways convening at the city center. A drive time isochrone might look like a star shape because people driving fast on the major roadways can get in faster than those in the more congested (and lower speed limit) side streets.

Convenience locations are generally 5 minutes or less in the dense suburbs, and can be up to 20 or more out in the more rural areas. There are more detailed ways to calculate trade areas - but if you’re looking for something quick that most people understand and won’t question you’ll get the basics straight so that you can say something like:

“70% of our customers come from within 7 miles of the store, that’s about a 15 minute drive time.”

Now what?

If you have one location, then when you are expanding you know that you have been successful with this particular location and can at least use your current assumptions to review the proposed site. If you have several locations, then classify your stores first by type, profitability, size, or other metrics, then lay out the distance and drive time data in a spreadsheet. You’re starting to build some intelligence!

Next step, buy data.

Census data is great, but it is dated. Populations are constantly changing in relation to the economy of an area. If you are serious about understanding and growing your business, don’t rely on free or cheap estimates. Spend a few hundred dollars and get what you need so that you can confidently approach the bank (or your spouse, boss, investor etc.) with information you can hang your hat on.

Here’s what I usually recommend for a good understanding of the potential for a site: Each report is about $50 depending on where you buy it from, and most of the time it is packaged so you can expect to pay between $250 - $500 for a series of site reports that you can use over and over to assess or market a property.

1. Census counts, current year estimates and five year projections for current population and current households. Include population described by segments such as Education, Home Value, Occupations, Race, Language spoken
2. Income distribution, net worth
3. Lifestyle/Lifestage assessment
4. Traffic counts
5. Business counts
6. Relief map (shows the terrain)
7. Market Potential Estimates
8. Consumer Expenditure, Retail Sales reports

…then analyze it!

So you have the data, now what? Analyze it. What I mean is take some time to study the reports and pull out factors that are important to your business. Make some basic assumptions given what you know. Here’s a little secret: no one approach is *right*. No one can predict the future — no one. But what you can do is estimate based on what you know and prepare for scenarios that might play out.

There are several ways to estimate potential. You can take a bottoms up or a top down approach.

An example of bottoms up logic might work like this: I am starting a new restaurant. How often do people eat out in my area? (Market Potential) How much do they spend on food outside the home?(Consumer Expenditure data) If X percent of the population eats Y food, how far out do I have to get Z customers? What’s my gross sales if I get 5% of the available prospects to come in one time? twice? monthly? What’s the turnover in population in my area? Is the area growing? Are people moving away at a rate higher than the county, the state, the metro?

An example of tops down logic might start out with an assumption that you need to bring in $xx,xxx/month to meet your profitablilty goals. You then calculate how many customers you need based on your average service/product cost. Look at similar businesses to get a demographic profile (list of characteristics) of your most likely prospects — then create a few reports assuming that people can drive 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 1/2 hour or more to your location.

Site location isn’t brain surgery, but it does require spending some time to think about the factors that can make or break a business. Arm yourself with a few reports. Run them for your area as well as for areas that you know are successful. Make up a little formula to help you estimate your potential and use the reports to fill in the blanks. Use Excel to create comparisons between what you know and what you estimate.

Whatever you do, don’t get “analysis paralysis”. The biggest problem with any business planning is pouring over data and market information trying to get an exact prediction of success. Follow your gut, use the data to support your intuition or to make you think harder about various scenarios that might play out.

Wendy Cobrda is Emissary & Founder of Catenate, LLC, a target marketing boutique with offices in Syracuse, NY and a virtual team scattered across the country. Catenate, a word which means to “link together in a series or chain” combines demographics, mailing lists, mapping, modeling and data mining to solve data-deficient marketing challenges. Wendy runs The Catosphere: Data on Demand — presentation-ready site location reports and maps.

http://www.catenate-usa.com,

http://www.catosphere.com,

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Business owners and professionals who struggle to manage the demands of their work and personal life on a daily basis all have one thing in common: feeling overwhelmed by trying to do too many things for too many people. You can’t be it all and do it all, so it is important to choose wisely. Clarifying your focus is essential.

There is a simple strategy in business that applies to life, as well. Successful businesses have a clear mission statement that guides ALL activities of the business. The mission statement provides clarity of focus.

Consider this: When you want a hamburger fast, you go to McDonald’s. McDonald’s mission statement is: “McDonald’s vision is to be the world’s best quick service restaurant experience.” Their mission statement guides ALL decisions about business activities and keeps the business focused. McDonald’s has never tried to provide a fine dining experience. You don’t go to McDonald’s for a fine dining experience. You go elsewhere when you want that.

Having a mission statement in your business helps you to make the important choices on a daily basis that allow you to stay focused and deliver a quality product or service. The same applies in life.

What is your mission statement for your life? Knowing your purpose in life helps you to “clear the decks” and focus on what is important. Your life purpose helps you to make the decisions on a daily basis about how you will spend your time. Your life purpose clarifies your focus. You can’t do it all, so choose wisely.

What is your life purpose? Simple question. Big answer. Your answer has broad implications for how you run your life and career. Although it may be hard to put words to your life purpose initially, with some reflection, it becomes clearer. Coaching can be helpful in clarifying your life purpose to keep you focused. And, when you work from your life purpose, work becomes effortless. You can’t help but be successful.

Small business and life coach, Sabrina Schleicher, Ph.D., helps you work smarter, experience more success, and have more fun! Get your FREE e-course: 7 INSIDE SECRETS OF ELITE PERFORMERS at http://www.tapthepotential.com

James Twyman is one of the world’s leaders in bringing peace to the earth. Twyman received his Bachelors degree from Loyola University in 1984, and a Doctorate in ministry from Agape Seminary in 1997. He has written five books, Emissary of Light”, “Emissary of Love - The Psychic Children Speak to the World”, “Proposing Tree: A Love Story”, and “Prayer of St. Francis.” One role James has played since the beginning, the role he considers to be his central and most important character: The Peace Troubadour.

“I believe that each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.”

“I am just an average human being, neither better nor worse than most, no holier, no more special than you or the person next door.”

“That’s why it was me, so that every individual can accept himself or herself as an emissary of light and see that there is no need to give their power away to any teacher or guru.”

“Each one of us has the power to become an emissary of light and make a difference for peace.”

“Emissaries taught me that a major shift is happening on our planet and that it is now time for the mystics and the peacemakers among us to come forward to help people awaken to heal themselves and the world.”

“It is the people of the world, praying and meditating together who can influence events.”

“It is when the world seems the furthest away from peace, that it is closest.”

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, Life Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, “101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life.” Mind, Body, Spirit healing and Physical/Sexual Abuse Prevention and Recovery. As an inspirational leader, Dr. Neddermeyer empowers people to view life’s challenges as an opportunity for Personal/Professional Growth and Spiritual Awakening. http://www.drdorothy.net

Are you really telling me you only use Google Adwords for your pay per click advertising? If you’re ignoring pay per click advertising on Yahoo you could be loosing some serious profits. Here are six tips to get you familiar with Yahoo’s pay per click advertising so your marketing efforts can start getting you a piece of another pie.

1. Bid for Placement- Unlike Google Adsense, with Yahoo you can bid for placement and determine what position your ad will show depending on how much you bid per click. The advertiser with the highest bid will have position #1. Position #2 will go to the next highest and so on. If you really want that top spot you can grab it for the right price.

2. Best Ad Positions on Yahoo- Positions 1 through 5 convert the best with pay per click advertising on Yahoo, while max traffic comes with positions #1 and #2. Try and bid accordingly and aim for these coveted spots.

3. Write Quality Ads- Yahoo now gives weight to the quality of your ad, much like Google does, so write them well. Include your keywords in the title and description of your ads to make them as relevant as possible to the keywords you’re bidding on. And don’t forget to make them catchy. Boring ads don’t get clicks so be creative and catch the reader’s eye.

4. Dealing with Disapproved Ads- Because pay per click advertising on Yahoo involves having your ads approved by the editorial team before they show you need to make sure you read Yahoo’s guidelines and stick to them. But what if you stayed within the rules and still get disapproved? Here’s a trick-call them. Yahoo has a number you can call and speak directly to a member of the editorial staff. They’ll go over any changes that really need to be made to your ads and if all is well they’ll resubmit your ad for you with a personal note attached. Your ads will be showing in less than a day.

5. Direct Linking- Unlike Google that will not let you use affiliate links in their ads, Yahoo is cool with linking directly to the merchant’s website. This eliminates the need for a landing page or the worry of duplicate urls. Use this feature to test new campaigns for profit potential before putting effort into building your own landing page or website.

6. Beware the Content Network- Leaving the “content network” option on can spell big trouble as the traffic from these sources is usually poor. If you’re new to pay per click advertising on Yahoo do yourself a favor and turn this option off. Your wallet will thank you.

Cindy McKie is a freelance writer and internet marketer. Do you want to learn to crush Yahoo and make $50 while doing it?

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Antique map collecting is a very popular hobby. It is an ideal choice for those interested in geography and cartography, history, art, politics…The good news is that you don’t need a lot of money to get started.

What should you collect? The best idea is to collect something that you like. Antique map collectors usually focus on either “vertical” or “horizontal” type of collection. “Vertical” means that you can collect maps from one country or one particular area of the world, and follow the development of that country or area through history. “Horizontal” means that you concentrate on a particular time period or on the work of only one mapmaker.

Before you decide what types of maps to collect, you must also decide how much money you are able to spend on antique map collecting. So, what can you expect to pay for an antique map? There are many maps still available for less than $150. However, rare antique maps can be very expensive, sometimes reaching five or six figures. Older maps are generally more valuable. However, maps from the 16th century can be bought for under $250 while maps from the 19th century can be worth thousands of dollars. The value of old maps is also affected by supply and demand. Maps of Africa, India, Russia, and South America and other less popular regions, can be very affordable. If you don’t want to spend money buying original maps, you can buy reproductions of expensive and rare antique maps.

The best thing a beginner should do is to visit antique map shops, talk to the dealers and see the wide range of maps available. Also, there are dedicated map fairs, and antiquarian book fairs where antique map dealers are represented. Antique maps are sold in two forms - bound in a book or atlas, or as a separate sheet.

Find reproductions of old world maps at PostersPhotosArtwork.com

Mostly, people who are taking this type of course wanted to help them get their within control. There is a lot of wasted time throughout a person’s day. With such a good course, dealing with stress and deadlines will be easy and simple. You are able to control almost everything both from home and towards work

A time management course can assist you become more proactive and less reactive. It will also help you get the maximum out of your daily routine.

Tips To Choose A Good Time Management Crash Course

Mostly, people who are taking this type of course wanted to help them get their within control. There is a lot of wasted time throughout a person’s day. With such a good course, dealing with stress and deadlines will be easy and simple. You are able to control almost everything both from home and towards work

A time management course can assist you become more proactive and less reactive. It will also help you get the maximum out of your daily routine.

Proper ways to schedule your daily routine are properly taught by this course. Time that wasted by you can be pinpoint, thus teaching you on how to turn around lost time into useful time. This course is specifically designed to keep you goal oriented. Setting goals will help your daily performance and routines.

Additionally, you can evaluate your personal time with the anxiety from the working place clearly if you have a good understanding of time management principles.

How to find a good time management course

You can get a lot out of such seminars (which offer mini-courses as well) but perhaps the good value for your time and money can be found by search for such a course on the internet.

In additional, there are many websites online that provide you with free advice as well as the things you need to control your time better. Both the advice and the tools are an important part of a time management course.

How to get more work done in the shortest span of time

Less stress is to keep everything in order in your life. This course can guide you how to get rid of stress and feel happier with the path you have chosen. You don’t need to spend all of your time doing work for people with deadlines.

You can really know how to optimize your daily schedule and figure how much work to delegate to do.

Try to take control of your life rather than reacting to events as they happen. All this can come through the simple step of taking advantage of a time management course, whether online or one found through seminars.

If you want to control your time more wisely, but don’t know where to begin, your initial step is to take this course that is right for you.

A course like this will give you more flexibility throughout your day. This will explanation of having more time for yourself or those assignments that needs to be done. Make sure that as you are particular about taking out special time for work, that you make the same sort of efforts for taking out time for yourself and your family.

Eddy K Elgin is the creator of the Quick Guide To Time Management Secrets. Drop by at Tips To Choose A Good Time Management Crash Course for more details.

For the angler to be successful in fly fishing lakes and rivers, he must use common sense and a well-executed plan to out smart a very wary pray. Remember, the trout your after is always on guard for any kind of danger, so when you alarm him you also alarm other fish in his vicinity. A trout’s brain is small but it is has registered literally thousands of real aquatic insects in a natural and quite environment. Therefore, you must take every possible advantage that is available to you to present the fly in a natural and undisturbing manner. The following are a number of simple things that you can do to increase your catch rate per hour of fly fishing.

Make sure your fishing boat is stealth. Water is a great conductor of noise, so check the anchor pulleys and oar locks for noiseless operation, and replace any noisy parts if necessary. Place a piece of out-door carpet in the bottom of the boat to help cut down on any unexpected noise. Use a pyramid anchor(s) or mushroom anchors for quiet and secure anchoring. Avoid chain anchors or small sea anchors that have metal-to-metal contacts, that make unnatural under water clicking noise. Be sure to tie the anchor rope directly to the anchor. Do not tie it to a metal clevis, which is attached to a metal anchor ring. A small boat painted brown or forest green is better than one painted red or white.

When you find a good spot when fly fishing a lake, consider using two anchors, one off the bow and one aft to keep the boat from swinging back and forth in the breeze. Lower your anchors very slowly and try not to alarm resident fish. Turn your depth finder and all electronics off. Speak in low voices. When it is time to move, keep everything quiet, and move the boat slowly. You can often move your stealth boat in very close to feeding fish. Keeping a low profile, you can then make shorter, accurate, and more presentable fly casts to feeding fish with dry flies or emergers. This is one reason why float tube fly fishers are so successful. Float tubes don’t make any noise; they present a low profile and they don’t cause big ripples on the water surface that will startle feeding fish.

Consideration should also be given to the color of the fly line your going to use based on the type of river, lake, fishing pressure, and water clarity. For example, if you are fishing a spring creek or a clear mountain lake, don’t use highly visible florescent orange fly lines. You will have much better success using green, olive, or clear fly lines that won’t spook the fish away. Lake fishing in gin clear water requires neutral colored fly lines and long 10 to 14 foot leaders with fine monofilament or fluorocarbon tippet material. (Refer to my web site or Ezine Articles.com and read my fly-fishing tips article: “Fluorocarbon Leader Material and the Fly Knots to Make It Work”. If you are fishing a big, fast- flowing river for steelhead during a cloudy overcast morning, or during low light conditions, don’t worry, a white or orange fly line with a long leader will not put the fish down.

To improve your chances of success when fly fishing small streams and rivers for trout and other game fish, you need to be stealth and blend into the background of the river edge foliage. In the spring, when the streamside foliage colors are turning lush and green, wear clothes with colors that will help you to blend into the background. I suggest olive greens, green, or light green-colored shirts and fishing vests. The same is true for the summer and fall months, when the browns and tans are the background colors, wear those colors. Predators move fast, you need to move slowly. When fishing a river or stream you then become one with nature and do not appear to be much of a threat. I know this all seems like a common sense information, but how many times have you seen some guy fishing streamside wearing a red shirt and a white hat.

I hope these fly-fishing tips help your fly-fishing experiences. Good luck, good fishing and practice catch and release for our future generations.

Stanley Stanton: Oregon Fly Fishing Guide and McKenzie River fishing guide,
Visit: http://www.oregon-fly-fishing-with-stan.com
For trout fly fishing tips, how to fly fish information, plus guided Rainbow Trout Fly Fishing, Steelhead Fly Fishing, classes for beginners and advanced fly fishing and Oregon Salmon Fishing.