In a Pickle

Life and times of a family guy.

The New Fly Fishing Books

Christopher Buckley reviews imaginary fly fishing books in a June 1994 column in The New Yorker.

"Extreme Fly Fishing," by Budd Revill, a former Navy SEAL whose macho approach includes using a rattan cane of the kind used on U.S. teens in Singapore. It's got a nice feel to it he observes.

White Beads, Brown Trout," by J. H. Wells, a lay Zen monk from upstate N.Y. with the maxim "Should you desire the great tranquillity, prepare to sweat white beads. One day while casting for a humongous brown trout in the Beaverkill River, near Roscoe, New York, Wells found himself asking, "What is the point?"

"Gills," by Peter Benchley, author of "Jaws," about a vengeful Dolly Varden trout that terrorizes a fishing camp in British Columbia.Trouble starts when the fearsome, sixteen inch monster attacks a female wildlife biologist. 

"The Apostle and the Nymph," by Elgar Cole, Ph.D., a biblical archeologist who challenges Norman Maclean's famous asseveration in "A River Runs Through It" that the Apostle John was a dry-fly fisherman. He draws on his excavation of Ut-Ekmek 2, in modern day Israel, where, he says, John and the other Apostles used to go wet fly fishing during the annual landlocked-salmon run.

LINK (Subscription required to read the full text)

2010 Flyfishing Trade Show to be Held in Lobby of Rock Springs EconoLodge

With the announcement this week by the American Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA) that it would “sponsor and/or endorse and/or ignore and/or relocate an Independent Fly Fishing show in 2010,” it came as welcome news to the industry this morning that the trade group has settled on the lobby of the Rock Springs, Wyoming, EconoLodge as the location. 

LINK  (Via:The Drake)

LA River Steelhead!

So we don't all OD on B.C. steel. LINK (Via: FIshing with JD)

Explaining Another New Fly Rod

We have all been here before.

A funny and all too familiar post from Mike's Gone Fishing. LINK

The Bear Necessities