Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 12:00AM 
A social networking site for lovers of framed river dories and drift boats first designed for the white water rivers of the Pacific Northwest. LINK
One of the site sponsors, Tatman Wooden Boats, is also the primary sponsor of the McKenzie River Wooden Boat Festival.
my other car is a drift boat in Boats Monday, March 23, 2009 at 8:44PM 
Twelve days after announcing plans to liquidate 23 stores, Sportsman’s Warehouse has filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection. LINK (Via: Salt Lake Tribune)
fish business, fly fishing business, hook and bullet in Business Monday, March 23, 2009 at 12:06AM You owe it to yourself to read this excerpt from David Kinney's The Big One.
Wendy Jenkinson always let her husband, Patrick, join the Vineyard's big fishing derby. But then she got sick. Could it ever be the same for him? LINK (Via:The Boston Globe)
For those of you not familiar with Kinney's book, it is a behind the scenes look at the annual Martha's Vineyard Stiriper and Bluefish Derby. The book's cover shot is Patagonia Fly Fishing Ambassador Dave Skok's. who is a two time winner and the only fly fisheman in the sixty year history to win the grand prize.
Grown men have cried over the derby. They have ignored their wives for week after week, sleepwalked through work day after day, stayed up all night long, skipped out on their jobs altogether, drawn unemployment, burned through every last day of their vacation time, downed NoDoz and Red Bull and God knows what else. They have spied on their rivals and lied to their friends. They have told off strangers and cheated like lowlife bums. If you believe the conspiracy theorists, they have prosecuted bogus charges of rules breaking to get their adversaries tossed from the competition. People have died fishing the thing.
Martha’s Vineyard is renowned for its exclusive shoreline and celebrity inhabitants, but each September, after the tourists clear out, thousands of fishermen take back the beaches to compete in the island’s annual striped bass and bluefish derby, a madcap contest that pits plumbers against investment bankers, schoolkids against senior citizens, and natives against newcomers in a round-the-clock hunt for a great fish.
Island immortality is at stake, and history has proven that anyone can win it: teenage girls, dozing fishermen, complete amateurs.
Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios has picked up the film rights to The Big One, and is working with producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the duo behind Transformers) to bring it to the screen.
Martha's Vineyard Derby, Stripers, The Big One in Literature Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 12:02AM It's been a while since we visited our favorite on-line marketplace for all things handmade.
Salvaged Teak wood timbers from an old ship that have been reclaimed into fly fishing boxes
A classic saltwater fly floats over a bed of sea shells perfectly preserved forever in resin.
The Fly Fisherman vinyl decal measures approximately 23"x26" tall. The decal is available in your choice of our available colors. LINK
Name of design: "Fly Fishers" LINK
The Fly pattern design is hand stenciled on the shirt. LINK
Fly tyers are selling their wares on Etsy. LINK
I bought all three of these etchings from Chart Well Print.
The life cycle of an insect as seen through the eyes and hands of a fly fisherman.
Late summer and the river is low. The steelhead are gathering at the tailwaters.
There is a hatch and the fish are rising up like birds...
Fly Fishing, fly boxes, fly fishing art in Art Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 12:01AM
Tight Lines Quartet is a jazz band, where every member is a fly fishermen. This video, is a sample of their demo recording ih Gothenborg, and works as a trailer for a documentary, that an independent production company in Helsinki, Petzifilm, is producing.
fish tunes, fly fishing films in Film and Video 
