Good to see Great Wild Outdoors isn’t too proud to get all excited about Wii’s Hooked! Real Motion Fishing.
Video game simulation is an easy target for the innate sniffiness of some anglers but if you’ve thirty minutes to kill and a gift for suspending belief, they can be great fun. Looking at some videos of the game in action, I was struck by one critic complaining at the lack of realism in a game that takes you from casting to a fish-eye-view of your lure being retrieved, in the blink of any eye.
Hell, if I could make just one alteration to real fishing generally, the option of watching a follow and take from underwater at the flick of a switch would be precisely it. Do any of these detractors ever stop to think how unappealing an actual reality fishing game might be? Rain running down your neck, numb from the waist downwards and standing in a river for three hours while precisely nothing happens. As Trout Underground might put it, see you at the refund desk.
And if it’s Wii bastardising your sport that worries you, take heart: you could be a boxing fan. Keep your eye on the guy in the white shirt, about 55 seconds in. If you’d told me I’d live to see the day when the Sweet Science went ‘camp’, I’d never have believed you…
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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
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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.
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June 24, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Yep it’s great fun! If you really want to suspend belief check out Deer Drive. The deer run up next to you!
July 3, 2009 at 1:41 am
I think “See you in Hell” might be more my style in this situation, though I might reconsider if the game would simulate getting a hook through your thumb.
That might be OK.