Blogging

New outdoor blogs are popping up left and right, but I’ve chosen to highlight this one for a truly stellar reason.

You see, the author used to ditch school to go the horse races.

The Ties That Bind

Mark Freeman is the Oregon Mail Tribune’s Outdoor Writer, but at San Jose State, I knew him as the guy who first discovered the diner that would sell pitchers of beer early in the day (early in the morning, actually).

One day a friend and I stumbled across him on campus. We were on our way to class. He was on his way to play the ponies.

With a background like that, it’s little wonder he ended up a writer.

Intrigued? Visit his blog at: Link to Mail Tribune Blogs » Outdoor Journal

His paper started several blogs, but pop in to his once in a while and we’ll drive the outdoor blog visitor count far beyond that of the Mail Tribune’s “lesser” blogs, scoring a significant moral victory for the outdoor world.

Or something like that.

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Just a quick post about two cool “new” fly fishing blogs.

In a prior post I mentioned the Teh Wind Knot; a literate site with an interesting view of life on the stream, yet I somehow managed to screw up my RSS feed and missed a couple gems.

Foremost among them was his series outing the membership list of the happy-to-privatize-your-rivers Spring Ridge Club in Pennsylvania.

Worth a visit.

The Wet Boots

Written by a soon-to-graduate college student, The Wet Boots is based in the Southeast . The author’s mission includes:

I want to show that there is a young group of anglers and writers who have a severe passion/obsession for this spiritual sport. Welcome to The Wet Boots. (No Bait Fishermen)

There you go.

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Insomnia has its uses.

I slaved over a hot laptop all morning long, upgrading my blogs and adding a neat new feature to the Trout Underground.

When you leave a comment, you can check a box (just under the comment) and receive an e-mail notification when anyone else responds to that post.

It’s yet another example of the Trout Underground never resting until your blog-reading experience is as special as it can be.

Who loves ya baby?

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Sure, we love to make sport of guides here on the Underground, but that doesn’t mean they’re not people too.

Plus, this guide (Biggie) is up to making fun of golfers, and runs hilarious politically incorrect videos about major political figures – reason enough to plug him here.

We’re adding Biggie (Josh, actually) to our RSS feed, and warning him that we’re watching…

Link to Biggie’s Bugs and Ramblings

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Every once in a while I stumble across an interesting new blog.

This one still has that new blog smell; it only features a few posts.

Still, Richard Lee Merritt’s blog offers an interesting mix. He loves old books (I love books too), plays chess (I played in a few tournaments in my day, and yes ladies, I’m already taken), and fly fishes.

I simply couldn’t pass it by.

And yes, I want a pipe just like his. Someday, I will be hip. But not today.

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