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Monthly Archives: July 2009
NetNewsWire finds a new sync friend in Google Reader (UPDATED)
I’ve been a fan of the NetNewsWire/NewsGator Online combination for some time. Along with NewsGator Go! for the Blackberry (the one I got rid of because I couldn’t seem to manage the three emails I get per day, unpopular as … Continue reading
The Blue River’s “significant other” on Black Monday 1987
In Colorado fly fishing circles, the name Jones is oft mentioned when discussing a conspicuously maintained section of the lower Blue River. Actually one of Colorado’s gold medal waters, this section of the Blue is accessible only by raft. The … Continue reading
Conjured in Office
Tagged Black Monday, Blue River, Paul Tudor Jones, stock market, trading
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Weinbrenner Rubber and RailRiders Extreme: The perfect wet-wading combination
We’ve seen a lot of unexpected weather in Colorado as of late. Rivers have stayed marginally above normal as a result, and I’ve kept my waders on. Some carping conditions have been decent for wet wading, and I’ve taken advantage … Continue reading
Conjured in On The Fly
Tagged gear bag, pants, RailRiders, wading boots, Weinbrenner, wet wading
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Bonefish and Tarpon Trust presents: Pirates of the Flats
Series coming January 2010 on ESPN2. Me thinks that’s too long to wait, so watch the trailer now: (h/t FlyFishMagazine)
Conjured in On The Fly
Tagged Bonefish and Tarpon Trust, ESPN2, Lefty Kreh, Michael Keaton, Pirates of the Flats, Thomas McGuane, Tom Brokaw, Val Atkin, Yvon Chouinard
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Epilogue: Thoughts on fly fishing with a Fat Guy, and fly fishing itself
While I only had the opportunity to fly fish with one of the Fat Guys, I did get to drink with two of them. Alex concluded best in his account…”it would be really funny to go sit on Kyle’s passed … Continue reading
Preview: What happens when you go fly fishing with Fat Guys (UPDATED)
A preview of Alex Landeen… A preview of Michael Gracie… Read the whole shebang at Fat Guy Fly Fishing (when Alex gets around to it). UPDATED: Alex is nowhere near as lazy as I thought!
Winding up the month of July
The next couple of weeks are going to be fun… Alex Landeen hits Colorado today. We’re going to be fishing like madmen, and probably drinking with similar fury. Scouts were sent out to check conditions, and the report back was … Continue reading
Conjured in Office
Tagged Alex Landeen, buy sell agreement, Carp Slam, fly fishing, gear reviews, green energy, PHP, RSS, wading boots, waist packs
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Fly fishing hacks: Do you retrieve with the right hand, the left, or both?
Which hand do you retrieve with? That is the question. I’m a right handed person, and like most I cast with the right hand and retrieved (i.e. strip or crank the reel) with the left. At least as far as … Continue reading
Plugging GD into PHP, on Leopard 10.5.7
Every Mac web developer will at some time in their lives have to deal with images. Unfortunately, the PHP installation on the Leopard OS (5.2.8 as of OS X 10.5.7) doesn’t have GD compiled in by default. If you’ve tried … Continue reading
Trophy brown trout briskly and expertly transformed into robofish
From the Don’t Try This On Your Home Waters files… To heck with just tagging the rear of a fish’s dorsal with some microscopic identification device – the folks from the Henry’s Fork Foundation actually perform full-blown surgery on a … Continue reading
Conjured in On The Fly
Tagged brown trout, fish behavior, Henry's Fork, surgery, tracking
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