Though other world responsibilities kept us from the IFTD show in Reno this year, we’ve been chatting with a small army of friends and enemies who attended this year’s shindig in Reno. To the man (and woman) they applauded AFFTA’s efforts and felt the show went off as expected – very well. Most of the […]
Economics for Fly Fishermen
Unless you’ve recently crawled out from under your very well-isolated rock or wisely taken a hiatus from the news for the past year, you’re painfully aware that we’re hip deep in a very acrimonious political season. Just sitting down to think and write about it makes me tired all over; it’s only mid-July with almost […]
I just had the pleasure of dropping a Benjamin, in fact a Benjamin right on the nose, filling up my trusty truck at the cheapest gas station in town. Ouch. While gasoline and diesel prices have stopped their exponential progression, I for one don’t believe for a second that we’ve seen the highest prices of […]
My grandfather, Pa-Pa (paw-paw), had an impactful cartoon posted prominently at the foot of his fishing camp stairs (mouth of Colorado River in GOM). The caption read- Fish and Relatives Stink After Three Days. So does SOPA / PIPA. See Tom Sadler’s dish on the subject here.
For those fly fishers who relish taking a peek under the hood of the fly fishing business world now and again, Angling Trade’s November issue posted yesterday, offering (at least IMHO) some genuine meat on the fly fishing business bone to chew on. [Disclosure: We have a deep personal interest in the field of small […]
Kirk Deeter has written a reasonably balanced piece over on Angling Trade reflecting back on the recent IFTD show in New Orleans. KD does the right thing and puts it on the table right up front that he does have a dog in this hunt so to speak….. Now that the dust has settled, and […]
On the run this morning though couldn’t resist throwing in two cents worth on a topic floating around the fflogs lately. Barton and Chandler have offered up some pithy commentary over the past few days regarding Redington (part of the Far Bank family including Sage and Rio) opening up a direct portal to customers, sans […]
Angling Trade and MidCurrent yesterday announced the “Best of Show” awards at the IFTD in Nawlins. Retailers and ‘media professionals’ attending IFTD identified the top pics in 24 different categories. Here are the winners we’ll be seeing much more over the next few months…….
We’ve been a fan of Keith Barton’s diatribes over at Singlebarbed for some time now, even if we’re not smart enough to understand what the hell he’s talking about much of the time. On good authority we’ve learned over the years that KB is, particularly by today’s educational standards, a profoundly well read and intelligent […]
A friend asked the other day why we’ve created a category about economics on a fly fishing blog. Fair question. For a few of us real life work activities require fairly careful scrutiny of national and global economics on a more or less daily basis. In a spirit of true confession, I’m more than pleased […]
