MOLDY CHUM

Our solution to Cheney's visit to the American Museum of Fly Fishing

The American Museum of Fly Fishing feebly attempts to defend their decision to host and honor the former Vice President.

LINK  (Via: BWTF)

How not to land a sailfish

Larry Zarella goes wet and wild and lands a sailfish the hard way. LINK

Fourteen is the sum of the first three squares, which makes it a square pyramidal number

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Hush Fly Fishing

 

We connected to the Hush Fly Fishing Company and it's founder Ryan Sansoucy via the currently booming fly fishing community on Facebook.  LINK

The Photography of Brian L. Schiele

Brian Schiele shoots his images with a Holga camera.  LINK

If you're interested in experimenting with Lomograpahy you can find everything you need here. LINK

One cat just leads to another - Hemingway

Purveyors of salt water flies and the Old School Fly Wallet. LINK

They also have a blog.

Is that O'Keefe on the cover?

Because Cabela's got the drop on everyone else in the 2009 fly catalog wars we'll have to wait until the others arrive before  offering up our second annual fly catalog smackdown.

Free Helios Rod!

Massages not included.

Friday Pin Up

New Rules - fly fishing is not a team sport

Eleven teams representing six nations will compete in the inaugural America Cup fly-fishing competition Wednesday through Friday in the Blue, Colorado and Arkansas river drainages.

Teams from Australia, Hungary, Ireland, Japan and Poland will challenge two squads from Fly Fishing Team USA, along with the U.S. Youth Team, a Stream Team women's squad and a WorldCast Anglers team of U.S. notables.

Via: The Denver Post LINK

Charm City Cakes

Chef Duff offers a fly Fishin themed custom cake LINK

A Treasured Possession and Exceptional Fishing Tool

Chuck McGuire profiles his bond with his most prized possession, a J.E. Arguello "cane" fly rod.

In this materialistic society of self-indulgence and uncommon wealth, each of us has our own individual treasure. For some, it may be a large and lavish home, or high-priced automobile. For others, it’s an extraordinary work of art, or a collection of rare antiquities. Still others may cherish something as simple as an odd-shaped and colorful stone, or a prized doll passed down from a loved one. For me, it is a custom-built split-bamboo fishing tool ― a one-of-a-kind, unmatched anywhere in the world.    VIA New West  LINK

Fly Fisher IMAX film

 

I first heard about this project at last years FFR show and it's been profiled in their media partners mags but this is the first I've seen their web site.

Fly Fisher is the first giant-screen film ever produced and distributed on the subject of fishing.

The heart of the project is the 3D feature documentary premiering in IMAX theaters worldwide in 2006. In addition, Fly Fisher will be distributed in digital theaters, DVD and HD-DVD, HD prime-time telecast, companion books and guides, events, exhibits, broadband internet and interactive activities, and other related information, services, entertainment, transactional/database marketing, and educational products and services.

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Orvis Seminars

The Orvis retail stores hold a fair number of free fly fishing seminars and presentations. Here is a link to the store list and the 2006 schedule of events.  LINK

Teaching Wounded Warriors about Fly Fishing

Writing a check today.

A professional fly fishing guide, Trapper Badovinac, has taken on a new challenge: teaching Wounded Warriors how to fly fish. He will need help to continue this endeavor.  LINK

Donate to the Wounded Warrior Project here!  LINK

Slob Fishing - The Sport of Bums

After spending the day waving the fly rod on the Sky last weekend I actually toyed with the thought of busting out the Lamiglas.

My fly-fishing friends are tolerating this ghastly lapse (barely) because they assume that I'll eventually grow up and join them in the manly, ethical art of fly fishing. Which I will, eventually, but my dirty secret is that whatever happens, I'm going to keep up with my Slob-Fishing studies on the side.    VIA Slate  LINK

Shark fisherman can catch makos on the fly

Try to subdue a 250-pounder on a fly rod from an open kayak shorter than the fish, and you have yet another episode in the strange and wonderful deep-sea adventures of Conway Bowman.  LINK

Maybe to many Kaliks?

The comic relief came with all “the missed fish.” Rathbun laughed and shook his head after missing three in a row from the flats boat. “This is just unacceptable,” he said. “I am going to sit down now.” LINK

Fly Fishing and the Gospel

According to S.B.G. (Short Bald Guide)

Perhaps you have only recently received the call to become a fly fisher- BUT- you feel unworthy. Brothers and Sisters- GOD HAS ENOUGH MERCY FOR ALL OF US! Use the gifts that God has for each of us and REPENT of worm-dunking and bass fishing (actually, you can get a special dispensation for fly fishing for bass, but that will be covered later).

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