Just put up some new fishing quotes and sayings – numbers 699 â 704.
My pick:
âFishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit – like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truckâ â Hunter S Thompson
Is there something in the water? Is there an outbreak of strangeness? Your guess is as good as mine.
Oh my. While some folks are hard at work designing new marine protected areas for southern California, others are shoving lobsters down their pants. Stealing lobsters isnât particularly difficult — wardens say itâs one of the most common poaching …
Mysterious fish said to eat people in India
Itâs called a goonch, and itâs a catfish that can get really big and is said to be eating people in India and Nepal. The story is strange. The goonch probably started down the path of eating people by scavenging bodies disposed in rivers in the area,…
One of the most amazing fishing tackle stories of all-time centers on a group of Franciscan nuns in Ohio who decided to go into the tackle business. Calling their lures âSt. Peterâs Fishing Lures,â they manufactured and sold a line of 16 different …
The Leviâs “unleash your beast” campaign encourages web users to create and share with friends animated images of phallic creatures popping out of 501 jeans. The American Decency Association is calling for a boycott.
In todayâs The Times is a nice article on fishermen telling âpork piesâ and a few hints on maximising the impact of these fibs:
âLast monthâs column on how an angler qualifies for the term âgreatâ prompted a flurry of correspondence. Amid much else, it brought to light a telling quote attributed to Jerome K. Jerome, the author of the wonderful Three Men in a Boat. Jerome was talking not about great anglers, but about the qualities even a merely good angler needs to possess.
âHere is what he said: âSome people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing. But that is a mistake. Mere bold fabrication is useless. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous – almost of pedantic – veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.âââŠ
The previous article on:
is also a good read.
I wrote an article for a fishing magazine on this subject, but with a different slant, you might enjoy it:
âI guess, at the risk of upsetting some friends and readers, that only politicians, car salesmen, and advertisers, have as bad a reputation for telling pork pies as fishermen; it is a widespread prejudice.
The picture of a fisherman, his arms spread wide, extolling the size of the "one that got away", has become an over-worked clichĂ©. But under the clichĂ©, beyond the ‘liesâ, there lurks a possibility.
Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desireâŠâ
Charlie Craven is one of the best tutors of fly tying I have come across. I first came across his marvellous work in John Barrâs book âBarr Fliesâ â Charlie did the tutorials in that book backed up by superb step by step photos. I think they set a new standard in fly tying tutoring.
Now Charlie has his own book out , âCharlie Cravenâs Basic Fly Tyingâ.
Basic fly tying? I guess it is if you look at the flies he has chosen to present, but on every page are tips and tricks that I guarantee will have you smacking yourself on the forehead, and thinking âwhy didnât I think of that.â
Anyone working through this book will have covered most of the ground needed to tie almost any fly. If anything Charlieâs photos and words have exceeded the standard he set in the Barr book.
I have been fly-tying for over 40 years, and I still learned heaps. If you are starting out fly-tying get this book, do not delay â so you do not learn the bad habits we old tyers have picked up. If you have a friend or family member just starting tying, buy it as a present, they will continue to thank you for it for years to come, every time they sit at the fly-tying desk.
Cannot recommend it highly enough.
