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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fly fishing’
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, [...]
Midweek Sermon: Less is more.
How long, exactly, has it been since we’ve decided that we don’t really give a crap about anything but getting more stuff? But that’s not right is it? I don’t think there was ever an actual decision–not as such. It’s hard to achieve precision in anything so murky as our present predicament, but what is [...]
Just once…
Sunday, December 24, 2000 I scared some fish pretty badly today. None died of heart attacks, so I didn’t catch any. For the first time in days it was a decent weather. Not good, but decent. It wasn’t blowing a full gale and there were the odd moments of sunlight between the driven clouds. I [...]
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 [...]
