Entries by El Guapo (8676)
Arches fit standard brass bar rail
Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 12:00AM 
From an April 1959 issue of Sports Illustrated.
EYES
Right eye telescopic for fish; left eye microscopic for insects. Both always open
NOSE
Flexible, for turning up at worm-fishermen
MOUTH
Usually open, active and overworked. Teeth most often chipped from chattering after several years' exposure to icy streams on Opening Day kept in cheek
CHIN
Prominent, for leading with arguments on stream entomology
BELLY
Flat for easy crawling
HANDS
Fingers long for fly tying; finger tips sandpapered for handling fine flytying silk
FEET
Usually wet, but strong enough for prolonged marching up and down streams. Arches fit standard brass bar rail
HEAD
Bloody and unbowed. Contains IBM 705 computer for analyzing, classifying and recording good fishing spots
EARS
Bent by other fishermen's arguments and perforated by hooks from casting in cross winds
SHOULDERS
Left somewhat lower than right, for looking over in watching back cast
ARMS
Left arm extensible for netting; right hypertrophied from tournament casting. Right wrist flexible for tip work
SKIN
Tanned for lower visibility and welted from black fly bites
KNEES
Calloused from kneeling on rocks and behind bushes
LEGS
Preferably long for wading and sturdy for bucking heavy currents
tweed, vintage fly fishing in Media From Barbed Wire to Bait Hooks
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 12:18PM 
Cory Shiozaki is compiling information for a project documenting the history of Japanese-American internees who snuck out of the Manzanar internment camp under the noses of armed military guards to go trout fishing. Shiozaki's documentary, “From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks,” will tell the stories of how internees risked life and limb to experince a feeling of feedom, albeit brief, fishing Sierra rivers and lakes.
Manzanar was the first of ten internment camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is approximately 230 miles (370 km) northeast of Los Angeles, Manzanar would hold more than 11,000 internees. LINK
fishing history, legends of fishing in History The Diaries of Rodrick Haig-Brown
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 12:00AM 
The set of five volumes are quarter-bound in dark green leather and paste paper over boards. The edition of one hundred fifty sets were printed on an antique letter press and boxed in a slip case with a sixth volume containing twelve photos and a map. LINK
$1495 - Pipe not included
Fly Fishing, legends of fly fishing, tweed in Legends Loop - The Magazine
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 12:00AM 
Our friends at Loop are putting out a branded zine. LINK (Via:The Loop Army Blog)
fly fishing magazines, loop in Media