Archive for March, 2009
Further evidence that there really are no absolutes in fly fishing – just when the weight of witness statements and expert evidence seemed set to condemn the shadow casting theory to death by debunking, my weekend surfing brought me to this little plea in mitigation…
So much, too, for the idea that trout only jump out [...]
Just a few of the questions that strain a UK stillwater manager’s patience to the utmost…
* Free flybox (pay only £2.50 p&p)
* Free Airflo floating line for new subscribers
* Reader offer – save £81.95 on Greys Acuflex rod outfit
* Tips for wild browns
* How the moon influences your fishing
* Tactics and gear preparation for the new season, with the novice in mind
* Detailed report on Vision Extreme waders, Korker Guide [...]
I don’t make this stuff up you know: it’s all here, in the American Conservative’s wholly-objective-I’m-sure assessment of Barack Obama’s spending programmes, among which we find:
Preserving Lahontan cut-throat trout (Nevada): $250,000
Encouraging teenagers to abstain from sex (Pennsylvania): $24,000
Now I don’t profess to be an expert in American politics but priorities like these don’t exactly smack [...]
Thirty seconds into this clip and there I am thinking Ron Henry Strait is one of those deep, Zen fishing masters who leaves the rest of us in his line of work feeling hopelessly inadequate.
Turns out he’s one of us after all…
more about “A fishing writer who measures success…“, posted with vodpod
[Thanks to Fishing [...]
“The domain easytauntedbywatersonline.com is available to be registered and added to your blog. You can use it as your blog address for 15 credits a year. You have 0 credits available”
What do you think? Is it right that Taunted By Waters be considered ‘easy’?
Are the innuendo and snide glances worth 15 credits a year, or [...]
…you type ‘trout’ as your blog search keyword and it throws up ‘I am willing to bathe in the blood of virgins’.
Have a great weekend.
“We’ll just have to re-decorate the hallway some other evening, darling…”
A big thanks to the good people of the Chilterns Fly Dressers’ Guild branch, who hosted a talk given by myself and Trout Fisherman editor Russell Hill last night. It was a chance for us to tell some readers/potential readers what we’re trying to achieve with the magazine and for them to tell us whether [...]
“Diaper bag“?
“Nanny satchel”?
“Dad Gear”?!
The sooner some grizzled old soak is photographed in the midst of a roaring torrent with a 20-pound salmon on his line and a Freitag Messenger slung across his shoulders, the better, that’s all I’m saying…
News- Twitter Taunts
- TauntedbyWaters: Reading: "UK's Draycote Water halts fishing for 2010 – watch this space « Taunted by Waters" ( http://bit.ly/7q5AIc )
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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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