Archive for October, 2008
It’s a sensitive time for everyone right now. Rare is the person not worrying about his job, thanks to Wall Street’s avaricious incompetents Masters of the Universe; rare are the families not worrying about the roof over their heads or meeting heating bills now that winter looms.
If you’re trying to wring a positive from this [...]
“Amid widespread criticism, a Belgian public broadcaster on Monday scrapped a television show on Adolf Hitler’s favorite meal…A preview of the Hitler episode showed professional cook Jeroen Meus going to Hitler’s haunts in southern Germany to prepare trout with butter sauce, which is believed to have been one of Hitler’s favorite meals.”
When you consider the [...]
Oooh, my first backhanded compliment, from Turning Over Small Stones:
“I knew about this blog but then forgot what it was a called when I added the other blog links last month.
Found it again now.
He doesn’t seem to do much actual fishing but is consistently entertaining and apparently Taunted by Waters.”
Ouch. Fair point, however but then, [...]
Whenever I read about fly fishing in North America, there’s a little word starts whirring around my brain and all the seductive imagery of pine-clad hillsides and thigh-sized fish can’t stop it.
Bears.
For all that they’re hardly part and parcel of life in suburban England, I began to worry about bears the moment I watched The [...]
When fly fishermen talk about lodge culture, freemasonry is the last thing on their mind.
Instead, they’re thinking of the final flourish of a day’s fishing, the distant light and wisps of smoke that summon the angler home at dusk; the roaring fire and smell of cooking that assails the senses as he removes his boots; [...]
…try getting precautionary action taken over a sewage leak in Derbyshire ahead of the weekend and watch that buck get passed like there’s no tomorrow.
But hey, it’s only turds and sanitary towels washing around a public right of way near the River Wye, right?
Violence Alert – if you’re a little sensitive over state employees enjoying [...]
Happy though I normally am to let the sneers of those unmoved by fishing pass in one ear and out of the other, I believe it’s occasionally incumbent on all of us to sell our sport a little and drop subtle hints of the seductive appeal that brings us back to the [...]
Richard Ziegler was probably smiling as he wrote it; the instruction to his lawyers that, following cremation, his ashes should be interred in his fishing tackle box.
I smiled too, when I read the line in isolation on a newsfeed. I was going to admire his style and gently second-guess his wisdom, arguing that the point [...]
News- Review of the decade: 2003 - Shetland Times Online
- English beaver re-introduction should enhance salmon fishing, says US activist - Fishnewseu (blog)
- YEAR ROUND FISHING FOR RAINBOWS AT CROSSLEY - Mearns Today
- £500000 to restore rivers of Carmarthenshire - BBC News
- Plans for River Itchen prompt questions of trust - Times Online
- 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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