Welcome to the #1 installment of Fly Fishing Book Club.
Todays assignment - Book1 - Read John Gierach's 1986 Trout Bum by Monday 5/18/20. Check in below.
Meet back here to discuss.
Hope you can attend - Brian
WIKI on Gierach - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gierach
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FF Book Club Meeting - Read by 5/18 (Book1)
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FF Book Club Meeting - Read by 5/18 (Book1)
#1" There's no such thing as a fly fisherman wholly satisfied with his casting performance. " ~ Jim Green (1971)
" Just once I wish a trout would wink at me. " ~ Brian Shaffer
Use the SEARCH for justification and reasoning.
" Just once I wish a trout would wink at me. " ~ Brian Shaffer
Use the SEARCH for justification and reasoning.
Re: FF Book Club Meeting - Read by 5/18 (Book1)
#3Brian,
A good choice to start this with.
In Trout Bum there is a chapter where John talks about the impact of the Vietnamese anglers on sawhill ponds in Boulder and that was happening during my time frame of tying for AK. I was one of the anglers he talks about in that story. We were up in arms at the 5-gallon buckets of small fish being harvested by that group. Definitely, one of Johns's best works and as a tribute to John, I will not use his nickname here.
A good choice to start this with.
In Trout Bum there is a chapter where John talks about the impact of the Vietnamese anglers on sawhill ponds in Boulder and that was happening during my time frame of tying for AK. I was one of the anglers he talks about in that story. We were up in arms at the 5-gallon buckets of small fish being harvested by that group. Definitely, one of Johns's best works and as a tribute to John, I will not use his nickname here.
- Brian K. Shaffer
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Re: FF Book Club Meeting - Read by 5/18 (Book1)
#4Two quick favorites from Trout Bum...
' Night fishing can be a pain in the ass., literally and figuratively, because you can't
see where you're going or what you're doing, I refuse to night-fish water I am not
familiar with by daylight, but even so - stumps and barbed wire fences change
position and the drop off creep in closer to shore. The whole place seems different. '
' My gear is spartan and stout, well thought out. There are the two flashlights,
a pair of toenail clippers in the right pants pocket, and a sheepskin hatband full of flies -
poppers on one side / streamers on the other. No fly is smaller that a size 4. I am after bass. '
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My timing is never quite right... a week to do anything today is nutso - especially read an entire book...
So just days after starting this idea, I got word that I am top of the list - for an upcoming
surgery that is gonna sideline me for a bit. Pre checkup junk is this 27th. I am lucky (i think!)
I guess my direction here is just the importance to read.
(and also to write!)
Thanks for all who attended and will attend future classes.
You are the little acorn that becomes the oak.
' Night fishing can be a pain in the ass., literally and figuratively, because you can't
see where you're going or what you're doing, I refuse to night-fish water I am not
familiar with by daylight, but even so - stumps and barbed wire fences change
position and the drop off creep in closer to shore. The whole place seems different. '
' My gear is spartan and stout, well thought out. There are the two flashlights,
a pair of toenail clippers in the right pants pocket, and a sheepskin hatband full of flies -
poppers on one side / streamers on the other. No fly is smaller that a size 4. I am after bass. '
_________________________________________________________________________________
My timing is never quite right... a week to do anything today is nutso - especially read an entire book...
So just days after starting this idea, I got word that I am top of the list - for an upcoming
surgery that is gonna sideline me for a bit. Pre checkup junk is this 27th. I am lucky (i think!)
I guess my direction here is just the importance to read.
(and also to write!)
Thanks for all who attended and will attend future classes.
You are the little acorn that becomes the oak.
" There's no such thing as a fly fisherman wholly satisfied with his casting performance. " ~ Jim Green (1971)
" Just once I wish a trout would wink at me. " ~ Brian Shaffer
Use the SEARCH for justification and reasoning.
" Just once I wish a trout would wink at me. " ~ Brian Shaffer
Use the SEARCH for justification and reasoning.
Re: FF Book Club Meeting - Read by 5/18 (Book1)
#5Uncle Leonard would never have kicked the coffee pot.