I’ve already declared 2008 the Year of the Carp. One reason for that, besides occasionally obsessing about weird fish, is I’m tired of living vicariously through the exploits of John Montana, who posts all about whacking carp on one of my favorite blogs, Carp on the Fly. He also routinely competes for the Slab of [...]
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Via Moldy Chum, it’s better when they do that to your fly.
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Everyone’s seen the hero footage of noble saltwater fly anglers matching wits with silver kings, but thefin.com has two short clips showing what fly fishing for tarpon is really like, a lot of the time.
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(Photo from Carp on the Fly.)
Why have I declared 2008 the year of the carp? (For me anyway; Eric Byrnes of the AZ Diamondbacks has declared it to be “The Year of the Mustache.”
Because when I check out other blogs like the DayTripper and read stuff like this:
There’s an age old question. What happens [...]
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At least somebody somewhere caught something over the weekend. And people are taking fish you don’t read about on a daily basis. This makes me happy. A brief rundown:
RoughFisherman’s Journal caught redhorse.
The Rogue Angels hit sturgeon.
One of the BWTF guys hooked some redeye bass.
TV angler got redeyes, too.
Singlebarbed tangled with a pike minnow he knows by [...]
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Although blogging about fishing doesn’t seem to fall into the same high-stress compulsive category…
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Via Moldy Chum, the discovery of another paperless click-through fly fishing magazine. Haven’t had time to really read through it but at first glance it’s more text driven and less graphically inclined than This Is Fly. The two are different enough anyway to differentiate. It will interesting to see how many more come on the scene.
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Who is the bonefish whisperer? Check out the video.
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Buster Wants To Fish reports the story of a European corporation’s efforts to hijack a Chilean river, and of the grass roots efforts to stop it.
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John McMurray with one of his too infrequent posts on fishing conservation, this one pointed at how certain interests with loud voices and bully pulpits can undercut anglers’ efforts as a conservation force.
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