Warning: The video above contains explicit language.
It's Tuesday and I'm guessing you already need a little break from reality. Here's my little selection of funny and entertaining video snippets from around the world wide web. While they all don't deal with fly fishing explicitly, they feature fish, boats, and boats on fire (who doesn't like videos about boats on fire). Hopefully you haven't seen them all. Enjoy.
Three years ago I asked Joe Cermele for his thoughts on a good name for a gallery show based on the best fishing photography in the land. He replied about one minute later with "Surface Film." I thought it was brilliant and ran with it.
The Greenbacks of Trout Unlimited are excited to announce the third annual Surface Film event, showcasing top professional fly-fishing photography from across the country. It will be held at the Anthology Fine Art gallery on Thursday Feb. 7, 2013.
We recently asked you to guess our upcoming trip destination; the winner to receive signed, first-edition copies of Tim Romano's "What a Trout Sees" and my "Fly Fishing for Carp."
Ejunk, you nailed it: We're going to Argentina.
Romano and I will soon be departing for Argentina to fish for golaith brown trout on the Rio Grande River. We will be staying at the famous Kau Tapen Lodge. From there, we will head up to Cordoba to shoot doves.
Yeah, it's a bit cliché but I want to know what you all are planning on doing differently fishing wise for 2013. A friend and I had a conversation the other day about what we'd like to learn, try, visit and do more of next year. We came up with a number of items.
Mine include really learning how to spey cast with some proficiency and starting to figure out our local reservoirs for big lakers and musky on the fly. I'd also like to bone up on my local warm water locations. Lord knows there's enough of them. I simply need to get out a bit more and do some exploring.
Tim Romano and I made our first trip together as a photographer-writer team for Wild on the Fly magazine in 2003. We went to southern Chile to fish for trout in the region around Coyhaique, and came away with a great story. But more importantly, we forged a strong friendship that has lasted for a decade now. Interestingly, we don't travel and fish together as often as you might think. He's usually heading north as I'm heading south, but we do have a killer F&S piece brewing, based on a trip we took to Guyana last spring. That was our first collaboration since we rolled to Michigan to take in the crazy carp fishing scene around Beaver Island.
I trust everyone had a relaxing and fruitful Christmas. Today the Fly Talk boys are doling out one last present with our last caption contest for 2012: a pair of Redington Sonic-Pro Wader Pants. The image you see here, which I find "season appropriate," garnered a number of pretty funny responses. There were "Christmas Vacation" and Vanilla Ice references which I found hilarious. The best of which I've listed below for your enjoyment. The winning caption though, came from seanhellwig, who wrote: "I thought we were going to cut a hole and sit in a shack all day." That's funny...
After reading your input to our "Crowdsourcing" post we did a little while ago, we've decided to say 2013 will be "The Year of the Native Trout." There were plenty of votes for salmon, smallmouth bass (the photo in that post was indeed a smallmouth bass in Lake Michigan), and bluegills. But many of you clearly indicated respect for native trout among your favorite species and most memorable adventures from last year.
It's been about a month since we've run a caption contest. Since it's holiday time, and we're in the giving mood, we thought we'd let you all try for a pair of really nice waders. The best caption to the photo above wins a pair of Redington Sonic-Pro Wader pants that retail for $249.95.
This one is for Sinjin Eberle, who said he wanted us to reprise the "see this, do that" lessons.
In this case, we're looking at a classic midsummer trout scenario (appropriately, this shot is from Argentina). The water is very low and clear. The river bottom is a mix of fine gravel, rocks and sand. It's a hot, bright day (the sun is almost directly overhead). This is a spring creek, so the water temperatures are still perfectly cool. There are rainbows and a couple of browns lurking in this run.
Can you guess where the fish are, what fly we used, and how we approached them?