Archive for March, 2008
Rumour has it there’s a dam going down at 5.30pm UK time (11.30am local). Further details here: video here, or so they’ve promised…
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It looks sadly dormant now but The Offbeat Angler still boasts one of the best fishing website mastheads I’ve seen.
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As if wasn’t unfair enough that warmwater flyfishermen get to fish in warm [...]
No more excuses for stopping fishing early, just because you’re blanking.
Not when you’ve seen this guy.
No excuses at all.
I love it when people suggest there’s a thinly-veiled eroticism in any of my hobbies. If Gordon Wickstrom didn’t have an erection by the time he finished writing this article, then it wasn’t for want of trying:
“There’s something particularly feminine about fishing. It has something to do with water – that elemental association of the [...]
Getting your gear ready for the new season? The Daily Herald suggests an alternative to line treatments that should save you between £5 and £8 ($10-$16).
Just in case Sir Paul McCartney thought there might be an extension of the goodwill that flowed towards him during his divorce proceedings (even Brits, who traditionally hate any wealth that isn’t theirs, make an exception for someone who’s had Heather Mills bending his ear for four years) here’s Gene Mueller to put him right.
The [...]
Today’s hero in the fight against dumbing down: The Ray Troll Web Store, where the ‘T’ in T-shirt stands for ‘Thinking Man’.
A true creative, Ray is henceforth the Official Fishy Art, Clothing, Mugs’n’Posters supplier to Taunted By Waters. Unless his competitors want to enter an insane bidding war, of course.
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Angler demonstrates the future of small-time commercial trout fishing. Delegation is yesterday’s news…
“Members of the Bosnian Fly Fishing Team, who have been in New Zealand for 10 days practicing for the world fly fishing champs next week, have learned that may not after all be able to compete…the Bosnian fly fishing federation has refused to pay the team’s entry fee to the competition. The Bosnian anglers team [...]
Take your partners for the Semantic Two-step: brought to you by our house band, Stu Apte & The Elite.
Apte and fellow luminaries Emily Whitlock, Mark Sosin, Dave Whitlock and Flip Pallot, deigned to cast pearl before swine at the recent LL Bean Expo and Mainetoday.com reporter Dyke Hendrickson, sat in the audience, was rightly ticked [...]
Isn’t there something so typical of fishing about this story of an African competition being won by a 146-pounder and there’s no picture of the damn fish…?
News- Dream fishing expeditions - guardian.co.uk
- British Columbia: my very own call of the wild - guardian.co.uk
- Calling anglers... chance to net Ure own bit of heaven - Yorkshire Post
- Fraser on Fishing: I was trout of luck on Loch Fad but still hooked a pike - Edinburgh Evening News
- Teen reels in 66lb catch of a lifetime - Ipswich Evening Star
- Twitter Taunts
“Best fishing book ever…”
We all have one. I'm taking names...
Ninety-two in the Shade, by Thomas McGuane. "the finest fishing novel ever written, with the possible exception of Moby-Dick" - Paul Quarrington, Toronto Globe & Mail
The Joys of Trout, by Arnold Gingrich. "What a great book to read." - Pastor Caster, FlyAnglers.org
The Habit of Rivers: Reflections on Trout Streams and Fly Fishing, by Ted Leeson. "I find myself coming back to...'Habit of Rivers' quite a bit...Extremely well written book." - sculpin1, Fly Fisherman forum
Curtis Creek Manifesto, by Sheridan Anderson. "...hands-down the best book I’ve found to learn about the basics of fishing." - Kim Jackson, Albany Democrat-Herald
About Me
Taunted By Waters is what Trout Fisherman features editor Jeffrey Prest gets up to between salary negotiations.
Much as he'd like the credit for this play on the famous last words in A River Runs Through It, the real hero is Hannah Nordhaus, who coined the phrase in an article on her first try at flyfishing, for Rocky Mountain News. This blog is dedicated to her. The good bits, anyway.
E-mail Jeff at: jeffrey DOT prest AT bauermedia DOT co DOT uk [no spaces]
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