Archive for January, 2009
In issue 388:
Fishing blue and gold lures in cold, clear water
Tying hackles – a guide to the best materials and methods
Fishing concrete bowls
A bug for grayling
Stalk a winter ‘double’
Tie a red buzzer
Casting – avoid wrist-break
Tested – reels under £50
Irish commercial fishery near Cork that’s got them talking
Any problem getting a copy where you live, email [...]
I shudder to think how low Fishing Jones’ Treatise on Disgusting Habits might go but at least ‘Vol 1′ – chewing tobacco – is above the waist.
While it’s much more an American thing, I confess to having briefly tried chewing tobacco: my one and only seduction by Formula One advertising , more than 20 years [...]
Any other day, this stuff would have been Twittered…
The power of words. Just add ‘exclusive’, ‘fabled’ and ‘blue-ribbon’ to a couple of mentions of ‘discriminating fly fishing enthusiast’ in your press release and suddenly 97% of your readers are quietly hoping it rains all week long…
Britain’s Fishing for Everyone Club, on the other hand, [...]
My thoughts on telesales cold callers notwithstanding, I was prepared to give Mark ‘The Heat-Seeking Sales Machine’ Stevens the time of day as he began his Entrepreneur.com article on transferring flyfishing skills to salesmanship.
“I received some of my most valuable sales seminars from my father–while wearing hip waders. His mantra: Be yourself. Even if you [...]
I can’t say Schenectady’s Daily Gazette is my automatic choice for flyfishing information, although it does trigger memories of a Bazooka Joe bubblegum cartoon from my childhood (“Operator, I’d like you to put me through to someone in Schenectady. Spell it? Lady, if I could spell it, I’d write…”).
The Gazette’s Morgan Lyle, however, has an [...]
A handsome-looking blog Fermentation may be (wine is clearly the niche if you’re looking for sponsors) but I do think author Tom Wark frets unduly when wondering “Is fly fishing and wine appreciation a bit far afield from one another to make sense?”
His question is triggered by Wine on the Fly (“join four elite Napa [...]
Nice though it is to see The Drake buying the Fly Fishing Film Tour, if they run it anything like they do their forum, no first-timers will be able to get in without producing fish porn, breasts and pie.
And these days I can only get my hands on one of those items as a [...]
Oh, the weather outside is frightful…but it least it gives us the chance to catch up on what everyone’s writing about our favourite pastime.
Here’s a round-up of what’s come to my attention in the last few days…
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“This is the most comprehensive and authoritative book ever written on angling in Big Sky Country. Whether you prefer [...]
That’s what they’re billed as, anyway, among all the other crazy laws over over at The Bizarre, although I’m starting to wonder if there’s an element of urban myth creeping in here…
In Montana, it is illegal for married women to go fishing alone on Sundays, and illegal for unmarried women to fish alone at all
In [...]
I’m not sure you can have no liquor, no tobacco smoke and no dirty laughter and still call it a social network for fishing but TroutPad are giving it a go regardless.
“A group of friends set up TroutPad so we could fish more and fish better. Whether its sharing great tips, connecting with friends, [...]
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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