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Screwy people. Screwy fish. The steelhead trout is the oddball of the Salmo family. It starts out life as a plain old rainbow trout. But then, for some curious reason that nobody has ever figured out, it suddenly gets itchy fins and migrates from its fresh-water birthplace down the rivers and out to sea. Its color changes from a bluish hue to steely silver (hence its name), its quarter-sized spots shrink to freckles, and it grows enormous for a trout: an average steelhead weighs 8 Ibs. (v. 1½ Ibs. for a rainbow), and big ones...
Finally, after two years of gallivanting around, the steelhead comes home to spawn. It even does that the hard way. Salmon spawn in October; rainbow trout lay their eggs in the fall and hibernate sluggishly on the bottom at the first cold snap. But winter-from...
Please Pass the Hardware. If a steelhead is an icthyologist's problem, it is also a fisherman's passion. Ordinary rainbows generally eat flies; the steelie -assuming it is in the mood-eats hardware: spoons, wobblers, plugs, strings of red beads, or just about anything else an imaginative fisherman happens to tie to his hook. It does not rise to the lure like a finicky rainbow, it attacks it enthusiastically-so hard that the pole may literally be torn from an unwary angler's grasp...
...rainbow-clad company whirls through its paces like a hurricane at a remnant counter. Chita Rivera is a one-woman atomic pile, and her dances are radioactive. The book is carefully thought out, and if the music is merely passable, the lyrics are intelligent...
...DEREK BOSHIER, 27, invents jazzily colored bewilderments that he calls "geo-art." Portsmouth-born Boshier was baffled by math in school, but found in art a personal arithmetic. His colors are rainbow, his brushwork invisible, his imagery a camouflage that creates the illusion of depth while flatly defying the painting's artificial edge. A modest but highly confident chap, Boshier says: "All the images I use have very much to do with presentation, the idea of projection-rather like the phrase '20th Century-Fox presents' in the movies. These images come from a social condition or setup...