[Non-fisher folk should make sure to read the footnotes.] While that hard-hitting bastion of political commentary, Field & Stream, didn’t dig up much news when it comes to presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, an underlying current hints at a convert, nearly imperceptible effort to divide and conquer the fly fishing world. On the [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
fly fishing leads the way
Leave to the fly fishing industry to set an example of deciding what’s best for the sport, i.e. consumer, with the bonus that it’s more environmentally friendly. A calculated risk to be certain, but I’d call it a smart mix of business acumen and anticipating an audience’s needs. On day two of the Fly Fishing [...]
fish on!…
…the fence. Ouch. Read more: “(Hurricane) Ike: A Fish Story“
I can’t afford the rising cost of being a “bum”
While it’s becoming increasingly clear that the cost of wanton economic growth over the last decade may be escalating prices on nearly everything (except homes) — now the outlay required to appropriately outfit one’s self as a trout bum appears well out of my reach. A swift click on a link promising that I could [...]
best sport/hobby after kids?
Is fly fishing the best sport to take up in the kid-less years? Neil Ulman makes a good and well-written argument for it in his recent article prophetically titled Wading into Heaven in the Wall Street Journal. He describes many fly fisherman’s experience: Perhaps, like me, you retired to a land of hills and cold-water [...]
