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End of the Line
Ok, I confess I was horrified (and believed, still believe) An Inconvenient Truth. Imagine, all my beautiful flats drowned by rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans scouring the coral reefs, and rising ocean temps wreaking havoc on the ecosystem I’ve come to rely on.
Now comes a deeply disturbing documentary about unrepentant overfishing and the [...]
Reading is Fun
“Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.”
~Roderick Haig-Brown, A River Never Sleeps, 1946.
“And anyone who thinks I brag is stating that I understand fish-thought is obviously ignorant of the way in which fish think. Believe me, it’s nothing to brag [...]
How hard is it to get a bonefish to bite?
Intro
I got this letter a few days ago from someone calling themselves “a committed guide” [1]. It’s so damn funny and insightful and delightfully frustrated (in a ranting, I’ve-just-gotta-vent kind of way) that I couldn’t help posting it. Maybe the humor is only apparent to other guides and those readers who’ve only ever been on [...]
Joke With Fish/Joke With “Fish”
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What [...]
Out of the Silence…
Well done, boys, well done indeed.
Fashionably Late & Interesting
I must be slipping; can’t believe I missed Interesting Friday’s… actually, I just wasn’t in the frame of mind to come up with another three original lines. Good news, however, the wait is over.
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His double-haul is so sharp,
you can get whiplash just by watching.
His fishing journal has been listed as classified
until the next ice-age, or [...]
