Archive for May, 2009
Fly Anglers Online was one of the first websites upon which I stumbled when I began to develop an interest in flyfishing.
Some would say I should have deleted it from my Bookmarks many months ago. In a world where change and the never-ending pursuit of what passes for fashionable has 90% of Society chasing its [...]
If there’s a bigger mismatch between a blog title and background picture than this one, someone point it out to me…
If you’re the sort who needs to respond to the call of the wild in gradual phases, the Sunch should smooth over just a few of the riverbank’s rough edges…
“The Sunch is a microwave/dishwasher-safe portable picnic. The average-sized lunchbox unzips and folds out into a table for easy eating.
Soo Kang Lee’s Sunch is equipped with [...]
Save £90 on a pair of chest waders and boots
* Targeting specimen rainbows when the wind blows
* Dry fly fishing for the novice
* Reservoir tactics – what you need for your first session afloat – with Hywel Morgan
* Cover more water with longer casts
* Sea trout tactics
* Reviewed – sink-tips, Orvis Western 3 rod, Loop [...]
Eating, lounging, sleeping? Hell, even I qualify.
‘Fairy Company’, by the way, gentlemen, really spoils the effect somewhat…
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What they’re really saying in those flyfishing ‘Personal’ ads…
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What a sad comment on Society today, that a forum debate on people you wish you’d never met while fishing runs to three pages and counting…
“I wound [...]
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“BRAZEN criminals have used a 14ft fishing rod to smuggle drugs to inmates at Ranby Prison.
Prisoners were reported to have used a grappling hook to scoop up the illegal substance from a window of the cell block.
The scheme was only uncovered when prison officers discovered the rod just outside the prison wall…”
- from the [...]
All right, so I’ll back-pedal a tad. I’m no fisheries scientist, my biology training stopped at O-level and I was put on this earth to catch fish, not write their family tree.
Even so, am I so wrong to hear loony tunes jingling when I contemplate South Africa’s draft Alien and Invasive Species Regulations, currently [...]
Maybe there’s something wrong with me plugging another flyfishing publication, but then I’ve always taken the view that we all do the best job we can and the marketplace will make up its mind. Then we all die and none of it matters.
With that said, let it be known that the latest issue of online [...]
There’s a point early on where I’d swear he scans the road for a rise…
In fairness, he seems an affable guy. Give him three hours in the shade with a flagon of black coffee and hell, I’d fish with him.
But I look after the map.
more about “You’d worry if your fishing guide tur…“, posted [...]
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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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