Culture, Books, Art

Whether we’d prefer to or not, today is a day for remembering what happened on a sunny September morning in New York City, Washington and the skies over Pennsylvania ten years ago. 10 years ago. The decade that has passed since then has been a very different one for our country and the rest of […]

The Trout Underground has a great interview up right now with the world famous John Gierach. The whole thing is fascinating and you should read it all (go now, do it, I will wait). I was particularly interested in this exchange: Q: You refer to what I’ll call “fly fishing’s class wars” a bit more […]

THE CAR’S RUNNING by Trout Fishing In America from PunkinMusher on Vimeo.

9 Pound Trout from Cassady O'Neal on Vimeo. Reno Film Festival winner. We’ve all been there.

Porsanger på kryss og tvers (TEASER) from Salmo Trutta Production on Vimeo.

From Chi Wulff’s Art and Culture Division, Clarence’s speech from Shakespeare’s Richard III as seen through the 25 minds of Jim Meskimen.

Combing through used book stores is a passion of mine that’s almost as hard to resist as fly fishing. Several weeks ago I stumbled across this version of Papa Hemingway by AE Hotchner. She Who Must Be Obeyed grabbed it before I could and plowed through it during our Montana run a few weeks ago. […]

  Link.  Nifty Cuba piece, Gierach interview, vintage ads and more.  Well done.

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Split cane day from Luke Bannister on Vimeo.

Elk Hair Caddis from peter smith on Vimeo.

From the PlosBlogs’ NeuroTribes Blog, investigative reporter and aspiring author Steve Silberman (Wired and others) recently posted an intriguing collection of advice to aspiring authors from 23 published writers. From Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Brilliant Authors – I love books. My late father Donald, who taught Wordsworth and Melville to inner-city […]

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Open publication – Free publishing The pick of the issue probably has to be Michael Gracie’s Adventures in Fly Fishing Retail article, though Steve Schweitzer has taken a very interesting look at the pros and CONS of Groupon (any evidence of bias here is ours, not Steve’s). And more.

Work in the real world kept most of our gang off the water and with nose to the grind stone this past holiday weekend. We had a few hours to burn in San Antonio and found ourselves within striking distance of a favorite used book store. Kicking around these places always yields an armload of […]