Archive for April, 2009
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“One sport I fear I shall not catch Mr. Khrushchev at is trout fishing. While I was dining with him in Moscow last year…”
Yeah, that’s one way to get your article published in a 1961 Sports Illustrated. Particularly if you don’t actually achieve its stated objective…
“An American diplomat in Moscow shoulders the burden [...]
…and then two come along at once. To last week’s heady mix of stirring strings and faded Technicolor, we now factor in that old favourite, Really Stilted Acting:
“Just what do you call yourself doing?”
“Boy, I’m making up some bonefish leaders”
“Hot dog; when do we leave?”
Ah, there’s nothing quite like an IGFA Minute…
Turn your nose up at pond scum no more, folks. Turns out it’s the future…
“Clayton McNeff, a chemist and veteran industrialist, said his family-owned SarTec Corp. has perfected a three-year-old ‘continuous flow’ process and produces about 1,000 gallons of diesel weekly…from a variety of feedstocks that ranges from restaurant and ethanol-plant waste oils to non-edible [...]
Five seconds in the office and he’s off again. Those toxic assets won’t secure themselves, you know.
Have a great weekend…
Ignorant as I am when it comes to salmon fishing, it’s gratifying to read that salmon flies will occasionally take a trout.
Just as someone once asked why the Devil should have all the best music, so I peevishly question why salmon anglers should have all the best flies…
Orange Parson
Hare’s Ear
It’s not right. And don’t even [...]
FREE 40-page Fishery Guide – where you can fish in the British Isles, what they offer and how much it costs
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Expert boat tips – why is my partner catching more than me on the same set-up?
The [...]
…if we all just lived our lives to this kind of backing track once more. Music and commentary that has ‘A Better, More Decent Time’ written all over it…
Johnny Dieckman, incidentally, a former beau of Joan Wulff, belongs to this sad list…
Assuming I’m not the only one who enjoyed Moldy Chum’s ‘Patron Saints of Fishing’ series (search against ’saint’ on Moldy’s old site: St Bobberganoush, patron saint of strike indicators, is my personal favourite, although for its wonderfully unabashed cheesiness, Larry Van Pelt’s ‘With You Always‘ still enjoys pride of place in this believer’s artistic [...]
Oh my: government subsidies for print publications and Bish on Fish calling time on This is Fly’s honeymoon period.
At the risk of sounding like Wallace Hartley, party on, print dudes…
[pic courtesy of DRB62]
Believe it or not, there was a war on here, once…
News- Fishing sector receives record £9.3m in grants - Aberdeen Press and Journal
- Alan Beckett in 16lb 8oz rainbow triumph at Packington Trout Fishery - Coventry Telegraph
- Season extended due to demand - Journal Live
- Fantastic films in Corrie and an Arran energy centre? - The Arran Voice (subscription)
- A fresh approach to eating fish - guardian.co.uk
- Twitter Taunts
- TauntedbyWaters: Reading: "Casting demo on Scotland's Tay, Dec 5th" ( http://bit.ly/526Ztq )
- TauntedbyWaters: Reading: "Tip to stop the long tail on pike flies or streamers from wrapping itself around the hook" ( http://bit.ly/6VZcV3 )
- TauntedbyWaters: Reading: "The Fly Fishing Anthology" ( http://bit.ly/55gzby )
“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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