Pulp Fly: Volume Three

Short stories by some of our favorite fly fishers. Pulp Fly's authors have cred on both the water and the page and it shows up in the stories they tell. Volumes one and two accompanied me on countless coast to Colorado business trips. Number three is required reading for those of us who might not get on the water as much as we would like. Think MacLean meets Hunter S. and you have the idea.

Quote of the week: Bipolar Edition

From Christine Stapleton's article "Fly-Fishing & Bipolar: It’s Progress…Huge Progress"

"Imagine in your mania you are given a fly the size of a mosquito and a fishing line the diameter of a frog’s hair and you must thread the frog’s hair through a hole the size of an ant’s eye on the end of the fly. After a dozen attempts I became convinced that there was some evil fly-tying madman out there who was laughing his butt off because he had place a microscopic drop of Super Glue on the ant-size eye on the end of the fly – blocking me from ever pushing that frog’s hair through the ant’s-eye."

Angler Lands Three: People that is...

This week's fly fishing quote of the week comes from a story on Oregonlive.com about a salmon angler who rescued three people from the water by casting to them and landing them.

"I was wearing waders and boots, so it wasn't very practical to try to get to them. If I became part of the problem, it wouldn't help anyone. The only safe way was to bite off the fly, so I (bit off the leader), and before I realized what I was doing, I started casting to them."

Precision casting saves lives.

Finally the right qualifications to fix this mess

An article via Philly.com in reference to G. Edward DeSeve who is expected to be tapped by the Obama administration to oversee the Federal stimulus program.

A fly fishing fan, DeSeve once said he would go "anywhere there is a trout in the water."

Hmmm a fly fisher with the full spending power of the United States of America behind him. I am thinking he could be the perfect new fishing buddy.

Let's wish him luck as he wades in to his new assignment....