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 with the mother and father of all religious spats.
One voice.
One lone voice in the wilderness.
And it’s that of a flyfisherman.
It’s almost messianic.
I’ve taken it upon myself to visit the comments page and tell them so, too. Now we sit back and wait for atheists and Christians to find common ground for the first time in 2,000 years. Beating up on anglers.
Trout Underground, the glory is all yours.
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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
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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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June 20, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Thanks for the kind words. The only belief-based wars we countenance on the Underground is more of the “slaw dog vs burrito as fly fishing’s perfect fuel” type.
That way, nobody’s going to hell for trying out the other guy’s perspective.