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Visit CurePC.orgThe two movies that fishermen gravitate to are Jaws and A River Runs Through It. Other than some crazy big fish action the movies are disparate in countless ways. Yet they are quoted by the same anglers, often on the same trip, and sometimes to the point where you want to punch the quoter in the sternum in hopes of jarring some original material.
But there is one common unifying thread to both movies: That song. It takes on a major role in the shark flick, but you could blink and miss it in River, when Norman walks in to bail Paul out of the drunk tank and the little old man is singing it. So any future fishing movie better have this song somewhere in the story line or it won’t amount to much that’s worth watching. Take heed:
Show me the way to go home I'm tired and I want to go to bed I had a little drink about an hour ago And it went right to my head Where ever I may roam On land or sea or foam You will always hear me singing this song Show me the way to go home.
I’m not supposed to go there anymore but nobody’s usually around and nobody would say anything if they were, and it gets dark now at around 5pm with Daylight Savings and, what have you, and sometimes if you need to find fish there are actions to be taken.
Fishy Kid, the org started by Cameron Mortenson of Fiberglass Manifesto and his buddy to help parents get their kids psyched about fishing through a kids coloring contest, is now running an ADULT COLORING CONTEST. Who’s got skills?
Photo the exclusive property of Toshbrown.com
Those are the hands of Jason Puris of Thefin.com releasing a striper in the surf. Jason proved a huge help to getting our book project off the ground.
Tosh Brown took some awesome shots in incredibly harsh conditions and posted some of them here, in a lightbox on his site.
Now my job starts. Time to put some real thought onto the page, rather than firing off blog posts.
Thanks again to Jason, Paul Dixon, Jim Levison, John McMurray, Mike Warecke, and the Salty Fly Rodders of New York.
I wasn’t going to pay for it. I found the only copy in my local Barnes & Noble, barely visable in the “Sports” section of the news stand behind a misplaced rap magazine.
I flipped open to an article called “Eden’s Tarpon” and couldn’t put the mag down after that. I read almost the whole thing just standing there. It has great photography, interesting writing, no top ten lists, no “look at me Ma, I’m fly fishing” articles, and even a solid Head reference.
I was going to shelve it but then decided these guys need to get paid so they can keep doing it. $15. And thanks for the bluefish love.
The Winner of the Blogger’s Ditch Fishing Gear Contest is:
Vaya con Dios Blanco Honky
Honky wins as per being the 31st comment, picked by Random Number Generator.
BLOG PROFILE: Since it’s the weekend and we’re too tired to email some questions, this is what we may or may not know. Blanco’s been putting up sophomoric hilarity for some time now. The proprietor possibly works in a fly shop somewhere and probably doesn’t need any of this stuff but he gets it anyway.
No lie.
Yacht Club please send correspondence as to where to send this paraphernalia.
When you're lost in the rain...and your gravity falls and negativity won't pull you through...they got some hungry women there and they really make a mess out of you.
And picking up Angel who just arrived from the coast...who looked so fine at first but left looking just like a ghost.
I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot. I don't have the strength to get up and take another shot.
I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough.
The lines on a striper are known to rewire neural circuitry.
Sunset Cliche shots release enough dopamine to make a grown man wallow in profundity.
On the jetty.
Tosh Brown and I have been working on making an idea for a book project a reality. A “large format pictorial on fly-fishing the Northeast coast” won’t work without large format-worthy pictures. So we’re blasting our way through some of the fall run this week.
The underwater housing is worth more than your life.
We’re in the middle of fishing around New York Metro and surrounding salt, with Tosh working the lens.
Stripers Forever sent out an email to its membership containing this graph* and the following statement:
The graphic released with the MD DNR report depicts the numbers of striped bass spawned in the Chesapeake Bay. Since most stripers that migrate north and south along the coast are born in the Chesapeake Bay, the MD DNR graphic indicates how future runs of stripers along the Atlantic Coast will measure up. The outlook for the species is not an optimistic one.”
In a second email Stripers Forever sent another note:
“On Nov. 2nd the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission – ASMFC – will vote on a proposal to allow states with commercial quotas to transfer the quota that they did not report as caught one year to the following year. This means that if a state’s commercial quota was 1,100,000 pounds, and only 990,000 was reported caught in 2011, the new quota in 2012 could be 1,210,000 pounds.”
Stripers Forever is asking that you write the governors of the affected states: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Here’s the suggested letter:
Dear Governor,
On Nov. 2 the Atlantic States Marine Fishery Commission will vote on a proposal to allow the commercial striped bass quota that states fail to catch in one year to be added to the next year. I strongly disagree with this plan to kill more striped bass. Striped bass fishing has declined greatly in recent years, and it is already costing jobs in the guiding and tackle communities where the value of striped bass far exceeds commercial landings. The trend in spawning success is clearly down, and we should be looking for ways to conserve striped bass not to kill more.
The proposed quota roll over would encourage under the table sales of striped bass that would not count against quotas. The striped bass commercial community has a proven history of doing just this kind of thing. It would be a poor policy to offer incentives for illegal activity.
I urge you to direct our state fishery director to vote against this proposed quota roll-over at the upcoming meeting, and to direct him to look for ways to conserve striped bass for recreational angling rather than deplete them for commercial purposes.
Sincerely
*Here’s the PDF with the full text surrounding the release of the graph.
