10. Due to cuts in personal appearance fees, Lefty Kreh casts 20% shorter during trade show exhibitions
9. Simms meets entry-level wader price point by introducing new breathable "wader shorts"
8. Top fly fishing magazine sells soul to advertisers and exotic destination lodges at 60% of last year’s price
7. High price of gas means fly fishermen are fishing same water, but driving less and making much, much longer casts
6. Buster Wants to Fish gang seen drinking tap water instead of cheap swill PBR
5. The Orvis Guy photographed fishing in last year’s tweed jacket
4. Guides attempt to convince clients that Ritz crackers and government surplus cheese are "euro gourmet" lunch
3. Fly fishers suddenly convinced they can "cast to the backing," but turns out SciAnglers saving money by making fly lines 40′ long
2. Redding Fly Shop testing Vespa Scooters to see if they can pull a drift boat
1. Donnie Beaver has only enough cash to illegally post half as much water as year before
The signs are inescapable, Undergrounders. See any of your own?
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I’ve been seeing a tarot reader every Wednesday. If the flows are perfect, the moon is new, and the Magician (fly selection), the King of Cups (for the PBR), and the Five of Wands (meaning my 5-weight) all show up, I go for the weekend.
Barring that, I’m trying to figure out if I can tow a pontoon behind my mountain bike. Michael(Quote)
Very funny. Thanks for the list.
Aloha,
Keahi Keahi Pelayo(Quote)
Hey TC damn, I had a good thing going with that lunch until you blabbed it.
David David Roberts(Quote)
Michael: You can, but it makes an awful scraping noise.
Roberts: It’s not so much the cheese as when you carve up something you found dead on the bank and tell your clients its sushi… Tom Chandler(Quote)
Now stop it Tom, I got to make up for the gas prices some how.
David David Roberts(Quote)
Ha, Ha, Very funny! I’m glad someone’s finding humor amidst the rising prices. Jared Nichols(Quote)
As a lover of Pennsylvania’s Little Juniata, I always love a good Donny Beaver rip.
P.S. fishing his recently un-posted land on the Little J. was spectacular in many different ways. Jon Williams(Quote)
Jon: I’d post a picture or two if you had one. And was this a float trip through the Little J, or were you fishing the railroad land he illegally posted? Tom Chandler(Quote)
Well this post is way late, but gotta do it. It’s now the weekend of February 21-22, 2009. I went to the Pasadena Fly Fishing Show this past weekend. Very poorly attended. I didn’t go to any of the workshops (too busy kibutzing with lots of friends I was surprised to see, which did make the show worth going to), but there were no major vendors there, not even Orvis, which has a retail store about three blocks away from the site of the show. Interestingly, Hardy was there, with their $1200.00 fly rod, and very pretty brochures. Not too many people interested in a $1200 fly rod that I could see. Kentucky Jim(Quote)