fly fishing, conservation and politics.
If you are interested in adding some new fishing friends to facebook or twitter then Jason Puris who runs The Fin did you a solid.
Jason posted a great list, Fishing Friends I’ve Made Online – Social Networkers Who Fish Too.
Yours truly made the list for which I am both honored and grateful. More importantly I am in some outstanding company.
Check out Jason’s list and see if you don’t agree.
Likely my favorite holiday. Cooking, eating, drinking with family and friends. No pressure, a lazy day, a day to catch your breath and a time to reflect on the things we are thankful for.
I won’t rant about the insipid commercialism that lurks on the morrow. Better minds and voices than mine are on it. I cheer them on.
Today is a time to relax and just for fun renovate the blog. Yeah it is kinda lame, but I can sit quietly this morning and goof around a bit before the cooking starts in earnest.
Trying out some new formats and tools. There will surely be some gaffes and missteps but it will all get sorted out eventually…
Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, we can enjoy Thanksgiving because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
For them I am eternally thankful.
My copy of Shin Deep by pal Chris Hunt arrived this week. Haven’t read very far but not surprisingly there is already a turn of phrase about brook trout that deserves quoting:
In the last few moments of the day’s light, I was able to glimpse the brilliance that makes brook trout, no matter their size, so wonderfully rewarding to the fly fisherman. Its deep colors seemed to provide a beacon of light in the near darkness of the evening, almost like a neon beer sign in a dank, dark, but wonderfully familiar tavern. You can’t help but stare at it.
Yup, brook trout water does have that familiar tavern feel, is it any wonder we care so much for these fish?
My friend Phil Monahan shot me an email asking if I would write a recap of The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture Annual Partnership Meeting for the OrvisNews Conservation blog. It was a great opportunity to help tell the EBTJV story so naturally I jumped at the chance.
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I am a big fan of the guys over at GoFISHn. I have worked with Brian and fished with Ned.
I have watched with great interest as they nurtured their startup (or is it upstart) web site to a full blown new media presence.
Not sure what GoFISHn is all about?
Ned has put together a nice video that explains it all.
Take it away Ned > The goFISHn video
Patagonia’s founder, Yvon Chouinard, appears in a commercial for American Express’ Takepart.com project
“we are part of nature and as we destroy nature we destroy ourselves. It’s a selfish thing to want to protect nature.”
We need more people who think like Yvon Chouinard does.
Watch.