What's your favorite fly fishing book?

Wolfgang writes....

Well, looks like Georgie is going to be recovering from surgery on the
24th.......should be weak enough that even you and I can beat the **** out
of him if he misbehaves. Whattya think?


24th sounds great. I'll call ya.

Joel Axelrad
**DFD**

Kevin Vang writes...

When I was a 14 year old, give or take, myownself, I spent hours
and hours reading "Trout Fishing" by Joe Brooks. It's still
probably as good a primer on trout fishing as any. It's out of
print now, but I just checked Amazon and they have used editions
starting at $2.88. If that ain't a bargain, I've never seen one.

Kevin


I agree Kevin. It's a wonderful book to peak a flyfishing interest. It's the
first one I read when I began. Should have mentioned it in my list even tho
it's not a how to book.

Joel Axelrad
**DFD**

"sohn" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
If you saw my post last week, looking for comments on beginner's fly
fishing
outfits, you know I'm about to take a class. I offered my 14 yr old son
the
opportunity to join me. He said he wants to learn, but not from a class.
"You taught me how to fish - how about you teach me to use a fly rod?"
Sometimes, arguing with a 14 yr old is like ****ing into the wind. He
will,
however, take a book to the bathroom for his daily "one hour on the
throne".
Anyone got a favorite book which explains tippets, knots, casting ideas,
etc?


If by chance your son is a Boy Scout, suggest that he takes the Fly
Fishing
Merit Badge. http://www.tu.org/conservation/youth/boy_scout_mb.asp
http://www.bsaflyfishing.com/bsreqs.html
Ron



Boy scouts? ROFL! Church committees disguised as men? We tried 3 troops. I
could tell you such stories about those pussy brigades. Remember the Borg,
from Star Trek? One mind, lots of wires connected to the central brain. What
a hideous example for a kid to follow. My son was beyond that when he was
three years old. Pass the barf bag, please.

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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Boy scouts? ROFL! Church committees disguised as men? We tried 3 troops. I
could tell you such stories about those pussy brigades. Remember the Borg,
from Star Trek? One mind, lots of wires connected to the central brain.
What
a hideous example for a kid to follow. My son was beyond that when he was
three years old. Pass the barf bag, please.

Hoo boy.

Wolfgang
someone pass the flak jackets, please.

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 01:06:11 -0500, lid wrote:

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:40:54 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:



Anyone ever tried to fly cast in the days immediately after having
their gall bladder removed? What was it like. Mines coming out on the
19th (free to a good home) and I'll be off work for a couple of weeks.
Would hate to spend all my recuperation time sitting in front of my
computer monitor.

I had the old fashioned way, big cut, ugly scar sort. No problem. I
was home in 3 days. The first patient to be less than a week at that
time. Now it's the norm even for the elderly (I was about 40
something then). I would have been able to wander around and fly fish
if I were very careful as soon as they let me loose. If you have the
new surgery, you should be able to be out or the house and behaving
normally by day three. If it hurts, stop doing it. If you're tired,
rest.

When I had mine done a month off work was the minimum time. I was
bored out of my mind.


Laproscopy. According to the doctor my main pain will be from the air
they use to inflate my abdominal cavity. My mobility will be limited
by the drugs I'll be on more than the "damage" caused by the surgery.
Supposedly I might be able to go back to work after a week with no
lifting limitations but if I can I think I'll try to get my A&D
(Accident and Disability) set up for two weeks.
One would think that if a mere bear gallbladder is worth hundreds on
the Asian tradional medical market then a human's should be worth
something.
*** It's bearly possible. supposedly the idiots that poach bears for that
market sometimes slip in a few pig gall bladders, The buyers may or may not
know, they probably just retail them for what the market will bear.
















g.c.

Who realizes he probably made a bad career choice when he is looking
forward to two weeks off even if it means getting sliced up to get
them.

Doug Kanter wrote:



Boy scouts? ROFL! Church committees disguised as men? We tried 3 troops. I
could tell you such stories about those pussy brigades. Remember the Borg,
from Star Trek? One mind, lots of wires connected to the central brain. What
a hideous example for a kid to follow. My son was beyond that when he was
three years old. Pass the barf bag, please.

Maybe things have changed or maybe it just depends on who the leader is.

But I was a member of Scout Troup "Traveling" 80 and I have many good
memories.........

Our scoutmaster took us on numerous camping trips including a week long
trip to the "wilds" of Michigan (which was VERY wild to a kid from the
Chicago suburbs) and to a Camporee in Arizona where we met up with
hundreds of other scouts. He had an old woody station wagon that was so
beat up and rusted out that when we piled in the back we could watch the
road roll by through the holes in the floor boards. I learned to canoe
on a polluted local river where we would shoot through standing banks of
soap foam at the bottom of each rapid, one time jumping in the water to
"save" another scout whose canoe turned over. Got my first kiss from a
girl scout whose troup was camping over the ridge. Went on a 25 mile
hike walking through woods, farmers' fields and on the shoulders of the
back country roads in central Illinois, following a historic Indian
trail and finding an old stone sharpening stone on the way. Getting out
of a tent in the middle of the night to take a **** and being so
overwhelmed and scared by the first true darkness I had ever seen with
its incredible display of stars.

Willi

"Willi" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:

Boy scouts? ROFL! Church committees disguised as men?
snip
Pass the barf bag, please.

Maybe things have changed or maybe it just depends on who the leader is.

But I was a member of Scout Troup "Traveling" 80 and I have many good
memories.........

Ditto. As a former scout, scout leader and a current TU chapter president,
I'm trying really hard to not come right out and blast that farking idiot...
I'm way too civil to do that in public.

--Stan

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:52:44 -0500, Kevin Vang
wrote:

When I was a 14 year old, give or take, myownself, I spent hours
and hours reading "Trout Fishing" by Joe Brooks. It's still
probably as good a primer on trout fishing as any. It's out of
He seemed to have found the right mix of topics and subject depth to
hold a new fly fisher's interest but knowing most beginners need first
to master the cast he devoted a lot of space to casting technique.
With its great illustrations it is one of the best I have found.

Kiyu

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 19:58:17 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


OK, fine! :-) But, if you set up OE the way I told you, it would be
graphically clear that some of this thread had gone off a cliff of its own,
while the rest had stayed on the subject of books. I'm really trying to
help, Tim. :-)


I'm in some newsgroups where there would be interesting remarks about
using OE as a newsreader. I'm just barely acceptable there as a real
user because I use Agent. You can't assume that most, or even many,
'Net users have OE. In this case he's said he does, so it works, but
others of us are not in it.

In my case, I read the lovefest in a previous session, and, had I not
put a lock on it, I'd have had no clue what you were talking about as
any unlocked messages go away when I sign out of my reader. We won't
go near what happens when power users in 'nix are in their fav
readers.
--

rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing.
Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

"George Cleveland" wrote:
Anyone ever tried to fly cast in the days immediately after having
their gall bladder removed? What was it like. Mines coming out on the
19th (free to a good home) and I'll be off work for a couple of weeks.
Would hate to spend all my recuperation time sitting in front of my
computer monitor.

I had mine out about five years ago. I was able to do just about
everything except sit-ups within three or four days.