Can’t help but wonder if we aren’t living at the peak of canned culinary delights… Just as Mr. Chandler over at The Trout Underground unwrapped the delicious details of The German-Built Canned Cheeseburger, the local press shines the front page spotlight on The Amazing Organic Batter Blaster (found at sfgate.com). Consider it the next evolutionary [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2008’
down the road we go
Maybe we’d better hope that the trout targeted this season don’t rise to the flies tied here at the House on the Hill. Already we’re beginning a battle the creeping curse that comes with fly tying. You can start with the materials strewn about the dining room table: hooks, bobbins, black thread, tan thread, red [...]
temps are cold and pants are long
Global warming is upon us. Snow becoming a regular and multi-day occurrence on the mountains within sight of the San Francisco Bay. The Arctic loosing ice cover, which in melting is decreasing the salinity of the far northern oceans. But doggone it, doesn’t seem like temperatures are rising. It’s darn cold out there this winter. [...]
tied up in fly tying
It began with a small brown trout dangling on the end of my son’s fly rod some two years ago. Since then I’ve taken a fly fishing class, joined a fly fishing club for which I am now webmaster and secretary, bought fly fishing gear and, yes, caught trout and bluegill on a fly rod. [...]
amazing they’re ever caught!
Reasons anyone should be amazed at catching rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss): Top Speed: 23 mph/37 kmph. Hogs (larger fish) can get in an extra 1 or 2 mph. Distance to Reach Top Speed: 1 foot. Average Speed of Line Pull: 33 feet per second. Vertical Leap Capability: Three to four times its length. (For a [...]
