Archive for September, 2008
Taunted by Waters will be on ‘hold’ until next week as it’s time for me to don my ’schmoozing’ cap.
Having had it up to here with flyfishing bloggers waxing lyrical on the delights of Fly Fishing Retailer this last week, my chance to turn the tables is finally here.
You may have seen Denver, you freeloading [...]
For the peeping tom in every angler – all hail the Sugar Creek webcam:
“Prime viewing times right now are 2-4 p.m…We are seeing a lot of fish cruising around”
“Features big ones up to seven pounds, plus some exciting close-up glide-bys of lunkers”
“North Pond Inlet underwater action”
“underwater scenes with music soundtrack”
Until now, I had no [...]
Three years a fly fisherman and I’m still clearly at the starry-eyed stage.
I visited Scotland’s Allandale Tarn last year, had a thoroughly enjoyable morning and in co-owner Margo Allan, encountered one of the best characters I’ve met in fishery management so far. So I was interested to read this article on another angler’s recent visit [...]
It’s not all 90-year-old lures over at Fishing for History. Watching this amazing video of the archer fish in action produced one of the rare occasions on which I don a fly tyer’s hat and attempt to figure out the type of fly that would bump up my creel’s archer fish quota:
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Forget location, location, location. It’s all about perception, perception, perception.
Some folk, the kind who presumably never stop to stare for even a second whenever they pass a river, feel Foltz House is a problem.
Built by a trout hatchery in Maryland, the Herald-Mail reports, there’s not a thing you can do with it.
“The house was built [...]
An extract from Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles‘ interview with Pink on this morning’s show:
Pink: “I’m going to rescue these animals from you people one day…you don’t need to eat meat any more, just like people don’t need to wear fur. It’s outdated, it’s unnecessary and it’s bad for you…I care about the animals.”
Moyles: “So [...]
Rarely do I dwell on any story involving US vice-president (countin’ the days…) Dick Cheney; a man I now realise was put on this planet solely to make Donald Rumsfeld appear cuddly.
In browsing this account of his fishing the Snake River with a Washington journalist in tow, however, I was not so much struck [...]
As you’d expect, I’m all for journalists hunting down the full facts of a story. Occasionally, however, it is incumbent on all of us, I think, to draw a discreet veil over those facts that merely augment the pain of the person on the wrong end of the tale.
So when some poor fisherman in British [...]
Yes, you did read it correctly.
“Dumbing-up”.
That’s the best term I can think of when someone builds a university class around fly fishing and literature. It might be several notches up from ‘meeja studies’ but I’m still not sure it’s work as I know it.
Which is, of course, an entirely different thing from saying you [...]
Going through this list of 12 essential rules to live more like a Zen monk, it’s hard to come to any conclusion other than most fishermen are there already. Aren’t these the very things we strive for in our pursuit of the perfect day’s fishing?
The only glitch would appear to be the closing quote by [...]
News- YEAR ROUND FISHING FOR RAINBOWS AT CROSSLEY - Mearns Today
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- ANGLING: Angling round-up - Wiltshire Times
- Fishing further afield — twice - Newark Advertiser
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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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