Monday, September 21, 2009

What do you do when you have no time to fish?

Answer: Watch movies of other people fishing.

Unfortunately we don't have much anything to report.  Water levels are still low here in Charlottesville and the temperatures haven't dropped enough to make fishing in the park worth it, leaving us with nothing to do other than study.  It's times like these that make me wonder if fishing guides sit around in the winter complaining and wishing they were training to become doctors instead.  For some reason, I doubt they do.

So instead of a fishing report this week, here's some of the videos that have helped me through the past week of playing catchup in pharmacology:

By far the best short flick on fly fishing out there on the web, Todd Moen's video, Alpine Bass.  I stumbled upon it in Catch Magazine Issue #6.  Enjoy.


Found this video of great foam fly action on the Simms website:


And finally, this video, "7 Minutes of Mayhem", shows off some amazing baby tarpon action off of the yucatan peninsula.  Using a blunted hook, the fisherman hooks and unhooks (purposefully) numerous tarpon.  Sick nasty.

3 comments:

  1. Just got back from beaver creek...the saying holds true..."crappy weather, great fishing"...Landed 6 nice trout and left 2 chubs on the banks...Biggest was 22+ inches. Tried mossy after with frustration...3 hits, no hook ups.

    vince

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  2. Nicely done out there at beaver creek! Rich and I have been talking about making another trip out there soon despite all the work. Catch any of the fish on dry flies?

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  3. What words... super, a remarkable phrase

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