Archive for August, 2008
There isn’t an application I look to close more swiftly on my laptop than the instant messaging programme.
I’ve watched this varmint long enough to know it’s the online equivalent of a stone in your waders, popping up like a meerkat at 10-second intervals because someone you barely know has just remembered an additional piece of [...]
“On the other hand, the results show that genetic variation exists in brown trout that may enable adaptation to future climate change by evolution.” – Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Science
Raise a glass to Darwin, tonight, people: he may have come up trumps for those of us with designs on trout, intelligent or [...]
Abiding mental image of the day – bent fishermen pushing the words “law abiding” to the wire:
“A total of 50 people have been caught fishing illegally in Shropshire and Worcestershire.
“A team from the Environment Agency checked 582 anglers to see if they had proper licences during an operation at sites in the two counties…The agency [...]
The latest Trout Fisherman, copies of which should be hitting subscribers’ doormats round about now, contains our review of the much-vaunted £9,000 Chanel fishing outfit.
Pressure of space meant that I was unable to include a copy of my original letter to Chanel, which was a tongue-in-cheek and thinly-disguised attempt at a blag, posted without a [...]
Just as kids will one day laugh at the idea of five-day cricket, so they will eventually clutch their sides in mirth at the very thought of having to rely on things like hand-eye co-ordination to cast a fishing line.
They will if Fogo have their way, at any rate. The Fogo Rocket Fishing Rod is [...]
The days of stuttering Internet video are fast becoming a thing of the past as Web technology improves. Some of you will doubtless be monumentally disappointed to discover that SpanishFlyTV is all about saltwater flyfishing but I hope the exotic locations are some consolation…
You’ll find a small selection of freshwater videos – and some [...]
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
- Twitter Taunts
- TauntedbyWaters: Reading: "UK's Draycote Water halts fishing for 2010 – watch this space « Taunted by Waters" ( http://bit.ly/7q5AIc )
- TauntedbyWaters: Reading: "But will we have far to walk…? Tiny hotel ideal for fishermen« Taunted by Waters" ( http://bit.ly/4EvWqQ )
- TauntedbyWaters: Reading: "Casting demo on Scotland's Tay, Dec 5th" ( http://bit.ly/526Ztq )
“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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