My leader looks a bit gnarly: 5x tied directly to 3x. The connecting knot does not help the look of the thing. My blue shirt has a large dark spot on the front where the cap of a floatant bottle somehow unscrewed itself and screwed me. I wonder if this now makes my shirt a [...]
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Very sweet tarpon film with Tom Bie
Tom’s Tarpon: Fly Fishing For Tarpon from WorldANGLING on Vimeo.
Silver is coming…
Apropos of my upcoming trip to the Keys, I’ve decided to try something new: trailers for my life. That’s right; they’ll be just like actual trailers–short, sweet, and nothing like (and mostly better than) the real thing. Here’s one for tarpon fishing. A short clip of “Silver” a (2-3 part?) series film about chasing tarpon, [...]
Most Interesting…Wednesdays?
When he picks up a flyrod, gravity decides to look the other way. He fishes giant tarpon with a 9-weight, because he has to under-compensate. Once, when the fishing was slow he invented the sport of shark hurling… he is still the world’s only surviving practitioner. He is…the most interesting guide in the world. “I [...]
Let’s get radical. Viva la revolucion!
Found this little beauty on the (french?) blog Le Mouching (a self-styled “Porn to Fish!” site). A talk at TED 2010 about 2 farmed fish and the search for a model for sustainable food production. Loved this. For all the bad news out there–seems there’s more every day–it has prompted a great rethinking of how [...]
How We Wrecked The Ocean
I know, I know; I’m depressed by this too. But we still NEED to pay attention. Really.
It’s a first…
I’ve never done this, but couldn’t help it. The film in question is just a sweet, sweet vid that I had to do a review on what I’ve learned in a just a few practice sessions. A review of the flycasting DVD “Taming the Wind: Prescott Smith Reveals His Secrets & New Techniques for Casting Into [...]
