This is a little unrelated to the topic of the blog.

I would love to see Nick Saban attempt to fly fish. This is most likely due to my extreme disdain of the lying, cheating sob. However, just the other day I caught a local fising show (hosted by a former Alabama football player) take Nick Saban fishing for stocked rainbows in a .25 acre pond. The pond was located in the gated community on Lake Burton that Nick Saban lives in the off-season. What was so funny was that the little Nicky refused to bait his hook, touch the fish, and just couldn't figure how to hold those damned complicated spinning rods. It was a riot, although it just made my hatred for the short little b@$$stard burn even hotter.

alabamahunter

Tell us how you really feel about Nick Saban! What has he done now?

I think it makes a lot of sense. What a great way to teach stream entomology, stream flow, fish behavior, stream health- and learn how to fish at the same time!

I took all that stuff in college, but had to meet my husband before I really learned how to fish. Ironically, my husband tells the story of how he almost flunked out of stream ecology in college because he spent too much time fishing. Years later he ran into his professor out on the water while he fished the local Maine waters. The frustrated professor wasn't do so well fishing. My husband kindly taught him a thing or two about the river, the bugs and the fish. The professor finally caught some fish that day.

So where did you graduate from alabamahunter? My guess is nowhere based on the ignorant unprovoked comments you are spitting.

dgbroox, the second comment was not unprovoked. I was responding to WAMtnhunter. I meant it jokingly at that. And no, I have not graduated from college. I'm only 16, and not even a junior in high school yet.

In rebuttle to your second comment, 6 of the last seven in football. 5 of the last 6 in mens basketball. It was just a joke dude.

alabamahunter and dgbroox:

Being a lifelong Alabama fan and graduate of the class of 1981, wife class of 1979 (she's a little smarter than I am), and several relative dating back to the class of 1939, I feel entitled to give a "Roll, Tide, Roll" whenever I damn well please! But I do have great respect for Auburn University and what it stands for.

There are a lot of rabid fans in both camps. Living out West, I am out of touch with the day to day politics of SEC football. But to your comment about Nick Saban never leaving Alabama, he wil damn sure be gone when he quits winning football games and SEC Championships! That's the way it is at 'Bama. Win or go home. But never forget that it is just a game....

Penn State has had this course for years. I was fortunate enought to take it my first summer of college back in 2000. We learned about a stream's eco-system, but the major focus was on tying flies and fishing techniques. The time alotted for the course just didn't allow any more in-depth coverage.

Well, as for the story itself.... any college that offers a course on fly-fishing is one hell of a college. I would love to take that class and actually enjoy going to it. I wonder what homework would be... creating a fly? I wish other colleges would offer classes like this. Hopefully they will offer the science and art of hunting sometime soon.