8 Mar
Until then, all that casting practice at the local park – miles from water – takes on a whole new dimension. One that doesn’t involve trying to convince passing policemen that roll casting towards a bandstand isn’t necessarily conclusive evidence of criminal insanity.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you squirrel fishing:
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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Posted by When Winter Runs Too Long (or, When Fishing For Non-Trout Species Looks Appealing) | The Trout Underground Fly Fishing Blog on March 9, 2010 at 12:13 am
[...] in very alternate. As in squirrel fishing. (Found via Taunted by Waters, who probably knows from nuts, being as he largely is [...]
Posted by The Trout Underground on March 9, 2010 at 1:22 am
Sadly – at this point in the winter – this is starting to look pretty good to me…
Posted by FlyFishmap on March 10, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Looks like squirrel fly fishing has caught on in the US too…
Posted by The Trout Underground on March 11, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Makes me proud to be an American.