Archive for June, 2008
The perpetrators of the latest inadvertent fish slaughter get off a little lightly today, if only because I’m still trying to work out how something called the Song of the Morning Yoga Centre comes to be operating a dam.
“Operating”, it turns out, may be something of a loose term.
“Several miles of the Pigeon River were [...]
So says this report in the Calgary Sun.
“[Statistics Canada] says 3.2 million adults bought fishing licences in Canada in 2005, down 25 per cent from the number who hit the water in 1995.”
No mention, sadly, of those who fish, not for fun but for the relief of some deep inner masochism that is almost sexual [...]
It’s a light I normally keep under a bushel but every so often I am compelled to ‘moonlight’ as unofficial interpreter for Big Business.
When your working day is geared towards making as much money as you can before high-tailing it to Maui with all those lovely share options the demands of commerce, it’s easy to [...]
Good news – flyfishing is to get another dose of Hollywood big-time, thanks to the imminent movie version of David James Duncan’s 1983 novel The River Why. Fishing magazine sales do rather well whenever our sport hits the silver screen: if you see me going all weak-kneed whenever Brad Pitt’s name slips into the [...]
An American academic has been analysing cultural differences between Americans and the people of East Asia.
He argues that “while Westerners have a tendency to categorize the behaviors of objects within straightforward rules, East Asians amplify the broader context.”
“For an example, consider a picture of several fish swimming underwater while surrounded by plants, rocks and bubbles. [...]
Until now, getting a thick lip from a trout has been a purely surgical concept.
Not damaging enough to the dignity of our favourite fish in the eyes of some numskulls, however. They now prefer the more direct approach:
“Tom was cycling on the A928 Kirriemuir-Glamis route, close to Roundyhill. A van, smaller than a Transit, flashed [...]
No sniggering from you Oklahomans. By UK standards, this is TERRIFYING: okay? One woman needed 20 minutes to straighten her hair afterwards. Scroll down report for poop-your-pants video.
Despite her adding further weight to the theory that women take far better to the whole casting thing than men, Jeong Park was poised to make this a delightful start to a busy week.
Then the Boney M vocals kicked in.
Have some Chopin/Coldplay/Duke Ellington on standby at the 39 second mark…
[Thanks to Bob Pauli for the [...]
While Trout Underground articulates with customary elan its delight at the discovery of ‘super-earths‘ orbiting another sun, it modestly omits to point out that it alone has detected the main thrust of the story – fresh fishin’ – while what seems like the world and his wife has stormed the original report’s comments page [...]
News- YEAR ROUND FISHING FOR RAINBOWS AT CROSSLEY - Mearns Today
- English beaver re-introduction should enhance salmon fishing, says US activist - Fishnewseu (blog)
- Review of the decade: 2000 - Shetland Times Online
- Angling For Youth Development at the Kenmore salmon opening - Fishnewseu (blog)
- £500000 to restore rivers of Carmarthenshire - BBC News
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“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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