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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘laughs’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Catching Bonefish is Easy.
August 3, 2007 Catching bonefish on your own is easy. Just spend hundreds of days on the water, casting at everything that moves: jacks, pinfish, needle-fish, barras, mullet and boxfish; divine their locations from the mysterious cycle of the moon; stalk the flats for sunburned days — scurrying in the mud like a bonefish yourself [...]
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. ____________________ His double-haul is so sharp, you can get whiplash just by watching. His fishing journal has been listed as classified [...]
Just another Interesting Friday.
Where does the time go? Here’s another episode of interesting. ____________________ If there was a book written about his life it would be listed as a controlled substance in most countries. His wading shoes alone have seen more action than most fishing tournaments. (What did you think I was going to say?) As a rule he [...]
Most Interesting Fridays (cont.)
Ah, time for another episode of interesting. ____________________ He once vanished from a fishing trip in Colorado only to reappear days later in the Caribbean… as El Presidente. It was he who taught Castro how to smoke a cigar, though he doesn’t smoke himself. He nick-named his favorite fly rod the “Jolly Roger”. I [...]
