The Top Ten Signs the Recession is Hitting Fly Fishing
By Tom Chandler on May 18, 2008 in Underground Entertainment
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?
Michael | May 18, 2008 | Reply
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.
Keahi Pelayo | May 18, 2008 | Reply
Very funny. Thanks for the list.
Aloha,
Keahi
David Roberts | May 19, 2008 | Reply
Hey TC damn, I had a good thing going with that lunch until you blabbed it.
David
Tom Chandler | May 19, 2008 | Reply
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…
David Roberts | May 19, 2008 | Reply
Now stop it Tom, I got to make up for the gas prices some how.
David
Jared Nichols | May 19, 2008 | Reply
Ha, Ha, Very funny! I’m glad someone’s finding humor amidst the rising prices.
Jon Williams | May 20, 2008 | Reply
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.
Tom Chandler | May 20, 2008 | Reply
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?