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Monthly Archives: March 2009
A ‘Try Not To Smile Too Much’ Moment in Brownlining
Dirty Duner… Wipe that hobo-dodging smirk off your face Taken on a Barr’s Emerger. And lived to tell about it. The horror.
Should the fly fishing industry can its marketing departments and double its prices?
Withering interest and recession staring it in the face, the fly fishing industry faces extraordinary challenges. If it’s not dealing with the fact that it has drastically overloaded its own product lines and twisted the outgoing message for optimum confusion, … Continue reading
Conjured in On The Fly
Tagged Bogdan reels, divestiture, fly fishing, luxury goods, marketing, recession, reputation, turnaround
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Around the world in nine paragraphs flat – 03/30/09
Technology – Jeff Bezos spent a week working in one of his own warehouses. When I first heard about it, I thought he was making a shift from strategic to operational, with an eye to cutting some costs. I was … Continue reading
Conjured in Office
Tagged Amazon, bird hunting, brownlining, budget deficits, financial markets, Google, hype, luxury goods, recession, social networking, Thomas McGuane
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Rod review: G. Loomis EastFork FR1085-4 (Part 1)
Every once in a while a person gets stuck in a quandary. My jams usually rear their ugly heads when I’m fishing a lighter medium-action rod, the sun starts to set, and I’ve decided to tie on a couple of … Continue reading
Fly fishing history is being rewritten, in a ditch
Pete McDonald follows up on the WSJ brownlining hoopla with some tasty tidbits out of the great state of Florida: Before brownlining there was ditch fishing. The concept of casting flies in less than pristine settings goes back decades. In … Continue reading
Bailout in South Park
From the other South Park I love, bailout education for the masses… That pretty much cover it. (h/t Greg Mankiw)
State budget cuts leak into fly fishing information resources
In what could only be considered a human fly fishing travesty, the New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection is suffering budget cuts, and part of their solution is to close a number of river flow gauges in the Delaware … Continue reading
Running a secure web server on your Leopard-powered Mac
This is not something most of you would want to do, but I’m in the midst of a project that requires SSL for testing purposes. My MacBook Pro serves as a primary communications center, research tool, and as the access … Continue reading
Something to do with boyish play…
It’s an oldie, but a goodie San Antonio Express – Fly Fishing from Adam Richard Jones on Vimeo. “…but it also develops the predatory skills we need later in life.” This is the point where I’d like to wax poetic … Continue reading
