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what we see… (03/20/2011)

Perhaps this fly fishing apparel designer should seek an endorsement from fellow British Columbian and fly gal April Vokey? http://bit.ly/gvLZRN
Let’s hope this isn’t what Opening Day looks like: http://bit.ly/gvLZRN
…and a good reminder just before Opening Day (at least here in California):

A guide’s story about the worst clients…ever: http://bit.ly/gBZ6or (Makes me not feel so bad about the one time I arrived on the dock while my fishing license remained in the cabin.)
Fun write up over at Eat More Brook Trout about a great day not fishing: http://bit.ly/hOnpod
Continuing with brook trout… Over at Small Stream Reflections a nice pictorial of the seasons of brook trout: http://bit.ly/g0Npv4
By the seventh day, you shall have beer… It probably can’t make the best double IPA or Doppelbock, but the high-tech and all that stainless steel and chrome certainly up the “I want it” quotient. (And everything sounds so much cooler with a New Zealand accent.): http://bit.ly/gmRhQh

Write up over at Eat More Brook Trout about a ‘small gesture’ tied to fly fishing that will go towards relief efforts in Japan: http://bit.ly/hM9S7t
Wine, fly fishing flicks, demos and gear not too far away from me at the Grand opening of the Leland fly fishing ranch. Best of all, it’s free (except for the films): http://bit.ly/SaiKi
Take a gander at Eastern Sierra guide Tom Loe’s winter ride…it’ll get you to the Upper Owens River in style, with lunch and cold drinks:

The "War Wagon"

Something worth celebrating…the one-year anniversary of year-round artificial lures and barbless regulations on Putah Creek, and its connection to Creedence Clearwater Revival: http://bit.ly/ez1NRw (And cool video on PutahCreekTrout.org: http://bit.ly/dRP1pE
The Naturalist’s Angle comes up with a must-have (and very cool) fly if you’re chasing salamander-eating fish: http://bit.ly/g2RPHa
An obsession with a certain facial feature at Singlebarbed and Trout Underground?: http://bit.ly/hkvmvz; http://bit.ly/eJFEvM; http://bit.ly/eNc1En
Not just because I’d love to say my car employs torque vectoring, but because it offers all-wheel drive for those Forest Service roads, a long hatch that’ll fit assembled fly rods, the speed that’ll allow more time on the water, and, most importantly, because it didn’t make the Unaccomplished Angler’s list of Top Six Stupidest Fly Fishing Cars: http://aol.it/i8RlQ6

Fly fishing folks can be pretty generous (Scroll down to “53. Fly Fishing Fantasy). (Of course, the winning $70,000 bid gets two days of fishing for you and seven friends at Brigadoon Lodge in the deal): http://bit.ly/hsPCyA
If we taught a club’s fly tying classes, we’d be on doorstep of Singlebarbed.com‘s ~~shed~~ headquarters: http://bit.ly/gvsGmx
While lucky enough to spend many a summer in Tuolumne Meadows, I’d had loved to earn college credit for traipsing around Yosemite’s high country oh-so-many-years-ago, in my youth: http://bit.ly/e2f8z6
From the All Too Personal Observation Department: While we thoroughly enjoyed our volunteer time with Northern California Council Federation of Fly Fishers at the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show last weekend, the experience suggests that I am able to help people learn to cast better than my own ability to do so.

Something for the fly fisherman who drifts nymphs (and who naturally tends to be a more imaginative fellow): http://bit.ly/idvg6v
Local story of those who have transcended the desire to hook fish: http://bit.ly/gw1x13
Despite my unaccomplished casting, I’ll be helping out this weekend (or used as an example of how not to cast): http://bit.ly/cxSHt9
What we saw during an aborted attempt at a long weekend away:

The Unaccomplished Angler and Trout Underground step up when John Walsh doesn’t: http://bit.ly/hztyUN, http://bit.ly/hA4G4K
Going on my “I Want that Job” list, because of the trout; nothing to do with co-host Hilary Hutcheson. (Look out Rich Birdsell.): http://bit.ly/gpDlMf
What trout will you chase? And what’s this “Other Trout” some folks will be waving sticks at: http://bit.ly/hGIAyd
Below, a day at the Oakland Zoo (The Wife declared this date “Spontaneous Saturday.” We ended up at the Oakland Zoo and enjoyed dinner with the San Mateo nephews and their parents.):

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