The Movie: Now available on Blu Ray

Although, we are still not sure that we care to see Buster's sunburned hindquarters in HD.

Reading: Old School Style

As an enlightned angler, does a portion of your reading take place offline using more tradtional media such as books? Do you enjoy the tactile feel of the paper? Do you appreciate a good leather (book) binding? Sometimes, a book without hypertext links or embedded youtube videos can be a very relaxing thing.

When you read real paper books you can scoff at that tool sitting beside you on the beach lamenting the fact that the battery on his laptop just died mid-page.

To this end we provide you with savings from our recommended purveyor of pre-loved books Alibris.

Enter code SEVENTIES at check out for $7 off your order of $70 or more between now and July 20th.

Drag Charlie...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a review of a new fly fishing movie from Australia, Jindabyne.

"Altman borrowed an idea from a short story written by Raymond Carver. A group of avid fly fishermen have hiked half a day to reach their favorite fishing hole when a dead woman comes floating down the river. Figuring that there is no way to predict how much longer the fish will be biting but knowing that the woman can't get any deader, the men decide to anchor down the body and keep fishing. Later, the men get a tongue-lashing from one of their wives and ribbing from their friends, but there is no major fallout from their behavior"

This new version of the story makes leaving the body bobbing in the river more about race and bigotry than fishing but we can't help but be reminded of a float trip of our own during which a fishing buddy narrowly cheated the grim reaper. His brush with death caused us to debate this very point and we came to the conclusion that since the fish had been biting pretty good, the order of the day would have been "fish the hole, then drag Charlie...Fish the next hole, then drag Charlie." You get the picture.

Apparently this sort of thing is the kind of ethical debate that anglers have discussed through out the years. Just check out this thread on our favorite Southeast fly fishing forum.

"for some reason I would draw the line between body and skeleton. Newly dead body - hike out

skeleton - fish my trip and tell somebody after I hike out. don't know why that makes a difference."

He doesn't fly jets that well either.

From an article in the Seattle Times about actor Tom Skerritt's performance in a local play comes this admission:

"The fly-fishing casts were the product of stand-ins. Skerritt tells a story on himself about going to Montana afterward to fish with friends and dumbfounding guides with his angler ineptness, including a near-fall out of the boat."

Photo via Wikipedia