Archive for November, 2008
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It could just be recession stress manifesting itself in devious ways but I’m reading posts from fishing bloggers that they may come to regret once saner times return.
First, this from the Mad Fishicist:
“This week my family ate salmon from our home river marinated with the berries we picked while fishing for [...]
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Whatever cultural enlightenment Life magazine had in mind when throwing its entire photographic library open to Google, this probably wasn’t it but the point’s worth making anyway.
I had no idea Ginger Rogers was this hot…
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So high is the standard of most fly fishing art these days, that I am rarely prompted to do anything other than nod approvingly when it is paraded before me.
Nevertheless, I find myself compelled to ask this question, no matter how hesitantly: just looking at the normally-excellent Galen West’s Permit on a Flat, Key West [...]
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Ah, ’tis the season. Thanksgiving beckons, Christmas around the corner, Britain’s first snow on the ground and fishing hacks reprising Chaplinesque pratfalls on slippery pavements.
If this blog’s posts read a little slowly for the next month or so, it’s because a broken humerus means I can’t write very fast. Any trophy wives out there [...]
Maybe it’s the lingering image of those lovable Ceaucescus and the architecture they brought with them but I’m still not quite at the stage where I expect great things from Romania.
Helping me get there, however, is this engaging site from that country – Fly tying: the ultimate fishing portal. Okay, so it doesn’t live up [...]
Pressure of space in Trout Fisherman’s review section next month means that the books have squeezed out this delightful DVD – The Lost World of Mr Hardy.
No way could I let it pass into the ‘out’ tray un-noted, however.
I had two reservations as I slid it into the DVD player: firstly, that it would [...]
I try to stay out of debates on fishing and writing. I make a living from it and am therefore arguably too close to my subject to offer objective comment.
On the other hand, if I don’t get some things off my chest, my head threatens to burst.
In commenting upon Holly Morris’ stab at fishing’s relationship [...]
“The only acceptable hobbies to discuss in man-versation are golf and fly fishing. Everything else makes you sound pathetic” – Wepe
Touched as I am by this fulsome tribute to my sport, deep down I think we all know we may have to yield to any of the following man-versational gambits:
1. “My karate personal best is [...]
Dental floss manufacturers, kiss a wedge of your market goodbye…Rick & Mic now have it from their dental hygienist that it’s okay to floss with fishing line.
No breakthrough yet, however, in the great Snips & Circumcision debate.
News- English beaver re-introduction should enhance salmon fishing, says US activist - Fishnewseu (blog)
- YEAR ROUND FISHING FOR RAINBOWS AT CROSSLEY - Mearns Today
- Angling For Youth Development at the Kenmore salmon opening - Fishnewseu (blog)
- £500000 to restore rivers of Carmarthenshire - BBC News
- Plans for River Itchen prompt questions of trust - Times Online
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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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