By KBarton10 on Mar 13, 2010 in Fly Tying, entomology, web site | 0 Comments
Alex Cerveniak of 40 Rivers to Freedom and the Hatch’s Blog network is creating yet another endeavor documenting all possible fish foods and the flies to represent them.
Entitled, “Eat the Fly” it’s an ambitious undertaking that will contain the common food items and insects available to fish, offset by some of the fly patterns used [...]
By KBarton10 on Mar 5, 2010 in Brownlining, Fly Tying, web site | 2 Comments
Friend Roughfisher is adding his expertise to the USCARPPRO ezine, with a monthly column on flies for our favorite Cyprinid. It’s a great fit and a monstrous ezine, 150 pages of technology and insight into all forms of carp fishing – most of which we never knew existed.
Fly fishermen have more than our fair [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 18, 2010 in Fly Fishing, web site | 7 Comments
It’s a daunting project that Project Gutenberg & Google has undertaken, scanning all the books in the world and making them available online. It’s not without incident considering they already incurred $124 million in infringed copyrights – but they’re forging ahead undaunted.
With Amazon’s Kindle creating quite the stir over Christmas, and competitors lining up [...]
By KBarton10 on Nov 25, 2009 in Youtube, fishing, humor, web site | 5 Comments
While the rest of you are droning on about weights and tapers, modulus and action, I’ll be downstream ….
… just me and my Blue Water Barbie.
Via John Merwin and his Honest Angler blog, comes an eye opening video of a fellow catching a 100 pound blue shark on bright pink Barbie rod, complete with closed [...]
By KBarton10 on Nov 16, 2009 in Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, fly fishing humor, web site | 2 Comments
The second issue of “Fish Can’t Read” debuted yesterday, and the boys at Dry Fly Media have really done a bang up job. Lot’s of diverse content, photo essays, and meat … from numerous continents and a variety of gamefish.
… and yes, I added my two cents. This month’s column, “Three Flies Short” is [...]
By KBarton10 on Oct 14, 2009 in Fly Fishing, web site | 0 Comments
While the massed regiments of printed media reel about in disarray, the agile “angling Taliban” are up to new, better, bigger, and more…
The checkout counter at Safeway lost three stalwarts in Gourmet, Elegant Bride, and Shotgun Wedding – they’ll no longer glare back at our 12 pack and sack of ice during a pre-dawn [...]
By KBarton10 on Oct 6, 2009 in Fly Fishing, web site | 3 Comments
If your tailing loop is more convoluted than most or a gob of pancake makeup will make you prettier than Brad Pitt, you might consider being immortalized on celluloid. Unfortunately you’ll have to live somewhere near Washington, Oregon, Northern California, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York State …
Kype magazine is looking for ardent salmon-steelhead anglers to feature [...]
By KBarton10 on Oct 3, 2009 in fishing, humor, web site | 0 Comments
Angling art takes many forms and covers multiple mediums – yet only the Pristine seems worthy of immortalizing.
Us fellows that trod mud amidst the savagery of the rural-urban interface rarely see much celebration of our craft.
Recycled milk crates strike a special nerve – mostly because we’ve waded through their neatly ordered phalanxes below bridge abutments.
I [...]
By KBarton10 on Sep 23, 2009 in Youtube, fly fishing humor, product, web site | 6 Comments
Talk about a “bait and switch” – I was all geared up to insist we all buy it so that our corpse was indistinguishable from the bottom, guaranteeing our watery resting place was undisturbed.
Or, the astounding scientific evidence that we’d be invisible to fish were we to slip it over waders…
Instead, I’ve stumbled on an [...]
By KBarton10 on Sep 15, 2009 in Fly Fishing, web site | 7 Comments
I’m an unapologetic supporter of the eZine format. Hard copy is good, but eventually they are dog-eared, foodstained, crumpled, and left in the bathroom – where some non-fisherperson seizes them for a quick journey to the trash can.
I like them because the online marketplace features content and authors that don’t fit the traditional mold. [...]