A guide in Alaska named Miles Nolte posts accounts from his life on the river into a thread on The Drake Magazine forums. The thread gets a following. One of the readers starts a publishing company. He signs up Nolte to write a book based on his thread:
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Bloggers With Book Deals
Posted in Fly Fishing, Lit, Media, tagged books, Departure Publishing, Alaska Chronicles on November 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
STRIPED BASS: Low YOY Numbers in the Chesapeake
Posted in Inshore, Media, Northeast, Save the World, tagged Chesapeake Bay, fisheries management, striped bass, YOY numbers on November 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An article on striper numbers from Annapolis.
Interesting paragraph:
Another factor worth considering is the fishing pressure. If you combine the recreational striper fishery, both in Maryland and Virginia (including the winter fishery at the Bay’s mouth) and along the Atlantic coast with the commercial effort, stripers never really get a break, unlike other game species, such [...]
I Vote For Catch
Posted in Fly Fishing, Media, Photos, Pimped Content, tagged Catch Magazine, photography, pictures worth ten thousand words, slight tinges of jealousy on November 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Damn that shit was dope.
R.I.P. Merl Saunders
Posted in Media, Music, Non-fishing randomness, tagged dead musicians, fly fishing music appreciation, jerry garcia, merl saunders on October 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Watch Hooked
Posted in Media, Pimped Content, tagged big fish, catfish, Hooked, marlin, national geographic, record fish, snakeheads on October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
National Geographic Channel will be airing its new series “Hooked” starting on October 19th. It’s all about big fish. Should be cool.
The Business of Sustainability
Posted in Media, Save the World, tagged commercial fishing, corporate responsibility, ethanol, sustainable seafood on October 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Via Yale’s E360, an article about the impact of corporate commitments to buy sustainably-caught seafood.
(While you’re there, check out the opinion piece on the ethanol boondoggle.)
(Oh yeah, they’ve got a comprehensive Pebble Mine article, too.)
FUEL: The Wall Street Oil Connection
Posted in Media, Save the World, tagged Enron, fuel costs, oil speculation, petroleum, screwjobs, unchecked greed, Wall Street on October 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From the Long Island Press, a great piece of investigative journalism about the connection between Wall Street, government officials, and the unprecedented high price of oil. Read : Crude
BLOGS: Buster Jams
Posted in Fly Fishing, Media, Music, Other Blogs, Pimped Content, tagged buster wants to fish, Cooler than cool, Fly Fishing Blogs, jam, theme songs on October 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Buster Wants to Fish gets, unsolicited, a pretty cool theme song.*
The BWTF Jam
(*The first recognized blog theme song in recorded history goes to a fly fishing blog. Suck it Kos.)
DVD REVIEW: Drift
Posted in Fly Fishing, Media, Reviews, Video, tagged Andros, Bahamas, Belize, bonefish, Confluence Films, Deschutes, Drift, flyfishing, Kashmir, oregon, permit, steelhead, The Drake on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“I want ‘em to look in the eye of that fish.”
The moment the first spey cast jumps from the screen in high definition, and the fly line falls over the currents of the Deschutes River, the viewer is hooked. The film’s vibrancy strikes an immediate chord, and it’s easy to settle in thinking Drift will progress [...]
FLY-FISHING: Casting Physics
Posted in Fly Fishing, Media, tagged a simple matter of physics, flies, fly casting, Joan Wulff on September 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
An article in Discover Magazine about the science of casting.
“If you do it right,” Wulff says, “the fly shoots by your head like a bullet.”
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