By KBarton10 on Jan 12, 2012 in fly fishing humor, Nothing to do with Fishing | 12 Comments
I expected most of the angling world to be in mourning, yet nary a mention of the possible demise of Wonderbread and the Twinkie, two of angling’s last remaining superfoods … Hostess and fly fishing have an enormous amount of shared lore which has been lost on recent generations due to their insistence on healthy streamside [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 10, 2012 in humor, Nothing to do with Fishing | 3 Comments
It started out as simply a shoulder shrug, but on a whim I was quickly transported from avaricious angler looking to impress his fishing pals to investigative journalist, then onward to devout PETA flag waver … It should have been a no brainer, how I was going to impress fishing pals by serving the remnants [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 9, 2012 in Entertainment | 6 Comments
As it’s not Mssr. Pitt and a bevy of nubiles, it’ll be under the radar of most. But with Woman & Home giving it a thumbs up, how can it miss. Contains rod-fu, salmon-fu, and droll UK humor, the perfect recipe for a chaste run at the Oscars. Technorati Tags: salmon, yemen, movie, ewan [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 8, 2012 in Fly Tying | 7 Comments
Bobbing away in some nameless lake last summer, I’d attributed my lack of success to a poorly designed floating midge imitation, and if I combined the air intake of an F-18E Super Hornet with a bit of deer hair, I could produce a better imitation that could showcase the body color to best advantage. … [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 5, 2012 in fly fishing humor, Nothing to do with Fishing | 6 Comments
We’re safe for the moment because there’s still an occasional Field & Stream mixed in with People and National Enquirer in the dental waiting area, and it’s inappropriate to hold us Sons of the Greatest Generation accountable for our Poppa’s fixation with archaic blood sports. … then again, all that could change in the blink [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 4, 2012 in Fisheries Science, fly fishing humor | 4 Comments
I’m giggling while Science chides me about noise pollution and fish –hoping to make me feel bad. I suppose if I owned a boat I’d feel worse, but the article concludes that even short bursts of noise can distract fish while feeding, and they’ll make more errors in judgment and ingest things they shouldn’t … [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 2, 2012 in current events, fly fishing humor | 2 Comments
You get to make quite the scene forswearing candy, the remaining quart of egg nog, and the last slices of fruit cake enroute to recapturing your High School physique. Like all religious zealots, the Monday after the last bleat of festive horn becomes so much more important, given you’ve sworn never to eat sweets again, [...]