Over on MidCurrent is an amazing piece of vintage footage of what may well be the first marlin recorded on fly fishing gear.
The clip includes some of the most incredible jump sequences ever captured on film.
A must see.
Put together by Chris Benny Imaging, this video goes just a little way to explaining why I love living here, and just how great it was to come home after nearly a month travelling, literally, around the world.
I recently wrote an article on Fishing Cheats, and it sure added to my email burden. Most were incredulous at the lengths some fishermen will go to, to massage their egos.
There were a good number of stories of cheats, swindlers, and con-artists of the angling persuasion, that people had encountered over the years.
But one comment on the fishing cheats blog-entry asked if the the cheat with the small rod was a famous fly fisherman. Actually he was not, but it did lead me down the memory path on some of my experiences with ‘famous fishermen’.
So I take a leaf out of the sensational magazines and tell a story about a very famous fly fisherman, and how the camera can, an often does, lie. [More]
