Archive for January, 2009

The Plane Crash Out My Window

Posted on January 15th, 2009

I was talking to my boss on the phone when she stopped and said, “Someone said there’s a plane floating in the Hudson.”  We ran over to the west facing offices. There was. At first we thought it was a movie prop. A plane floating along with the outgoing tide. Then two people came by and said they actually saw it fly in low over the water as if it were landing on a runway; then the nose cone submerged and then it floated along. Someone grabbed binoculars. Holy fucking shit! That’s a real plane. Those are real people standing on the wings. What the hell is going on here? We could see the patrol cars and fire engines roll down the street over…

GOOGLE BOOKS: Fishing In American Waters

Posted on January 15th, 2009

Via Google Books, now reading Fishing In American Waters by Genio C. Scott, published by Harper & Brothers, 1869. Some highlights: Fish evince no mercy for any living thing which inhabits the waters, and most of the angler’s fishes feed readily on their own broods. Another one: Salmonia: Or Days of Fly Fishing, by An Angler, published by J. Murray 1832 It is a large gaudy fly, and is fit for no part of this pool, except the extremely rough head of the torrent: there I dare say it will take in this state of the waters.

Save the World Links

Posted on January 13th, 2009

Tarbone sends a letter to Florida Fish and Wildlife asking for better bonefish, tarpon, and permit protections. Capt. Gordon sends word of more news in his battle against Carolina gill nets. Coastal Voices blog has a link to a map showing the extent of human impact on the oceans. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has a petition to the EPA to keep its promise to clean up the bay by 2010.

Five Questions With the "Rivers of a Lost Coast" Guys

Posted on January 7th, 2009

We here at Fishing Jones are enjoying the maturation of the fly fishing video genre into something beyond the instructional or extreme categories. From Red Gold, to Drift, to the rediscovery of Tarpon, we like where things are going. Add to this our expectations for the upcoming documentary-style movie Rivers of a Lost Coast, which focuses on California’s rich fly fishing history. After viewing the Vimeo trailer and reading the pre-release information on the blog, we decided to ask the filmmakers, Justin Coupe and Palmer Taylor, a few basic questions: It’s not often we get a fly fishing film that focuses on the past rather than the present. What inspired you to tell this story? It started when we first started going over to…

Five Questions With the “Rivers of a Lost Coast” Guys

Posted on January 7th, 2009

We here at Fishing Jones are enjoying the maturation of the fly fishing video genre into something beyond the instructional or extreme categories. From Red Gold, to Drift, to the rediscovery of Tarpon, we like where things are going. Add to this our expectations for the upcoming documentary-style movie Rivers of a Lost Coast, which focuses on California’s rich fly fishing history. After viewing the Vimeo trailer and reading the pre-release information on the blog, we decided to ask the filmmakers, Justin Coupe and Palmer Taylor, a few basic questions: It’s not often we get a fly fishing film that focuses on the past rather than the present. What inspired you to tell this story? It started when we first started going over to…

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