Now… I’m sure what he’s said is reasonable.  I’d add, however, that I’d bet there are rods that are much slower that are used for bonefish.  Just because a rod is slower doesn’t mean you can’t cast it in the wind or you can’t hit 70′ with it. We tend to use faster rods because they are easier to use, but it seems to me, that some of the best anglers (and I’m talking about the people here that are much, much better than I am) tend to fish with rods that are a bit slower than “fast.”

Thoughts?

Guess what?  I’m in there.  Page 79 is a piece by me about “Why I love bonefishing.”

Also in this issue are:

• Fishing Jones
• Eat More Brook Trout
• The Caddis Fly
• SwittersB & Fly Fishing

Check it out and I hope you enjoy.

However… enforcement lags behind and there are some real threats out there in Belizean waters right now.  Case in point is the matter of a boat, fishing out of San Pedro, that appears to be netting permit, killing permit and selling permit. (thanks for the link Adam)

Authorities have been alerted (thanks in part to the co-owner of El Pescador), but nothing has come of it. While there is a law passed to protect permit, it is not a reality in some of the waters around Ambergris.

So… Come on Belize. Put some teeth in there.

It is called “Tarpon Master” and it helps you calculate the weight of that big, huge tarpon without taking it out of the water, dragging it up onto the boat, damaging its internal organs and killing the wonderful brute because you wanted to get a scale on it.

Yeah… I’m going to say that this is kind of awesome.

Let’s keep those fish swiming.

It’s an odd thing to have a five year old and it is also probably totally normal.  After all, more than a couple of people have been down this particular road.

I’m hoping that I don’t loser her completely to her friends and the mall and her phone and to boys and to all the other things that will creep into her life making it richer and deeper and more complicated. I’m hoping that I can turn rocks over with her in my home river and teach her to tell a caddis from a mayfly, maybe put one of those huge stone fly nymphs in her hand.

I’m hoping I can take her to the clear and warm water of the Caribbean and South Pacific and show her sharks and rays… and bonefish.  I hope she out casts me, out fishes me and out enjoys me with a fly rod in her hand.

I hope she has best friends that don’t try to tell her girls can’t like blue or that girls can’t like snakes or sharks or alligators.

I hope she tries pot once and doesn’t like it and that she’s never too drunk around Frat Boys.

I hope she finds something she wants to do with her life. If it involves the study of fish or reptiles, I wouldn’t be upset. If she decides she has to be a center back for the US Women’s National Soccer Team, I’ll accept that as well.

I hope she is wiser and kinder than she is beautiful and she’s going to be kind of stunning.

I hope she finds someone to spend her life with who is better than I am and who likes to fish and who isn’t upset by the fact that she’s a 32 year old virgin.

It makes sense. He does have the blog “FishingPoet.”

Matt, just so you know, is a contributor to a soon-to-be-released ebook anthology of fly fishing short fiction called Pulp Fly. You’ll be hearing more about that little project very, very soon.

(This, it says, is my 1,000th post, just so you know)

Well, I work and live in Silicon Valley and happen to be at a startup now. So, the topic comes up a lot in my daily life.

While I’m not really stealing a lot of IP, I do link to things like YouTube and Vimeo and I do actively look for stories from around the web. Now, I attribute the stories I find and I never post very much of it… I’m well, well within my rights under “Fair Use,” but SOPA/PIPA does make the world a little more scary for me and other bloggers around the web.

Here’s some information about how it all works.

We’ll be back to our normally scheduled Bonefishing fixation tomorrow.

On a related note, a friend is formatting a soon-to-be-released ebook that features fly fishing bloggers from around the web, some of whom you’ve probably heard of (like, well… me, Michael Gracie, Pete McDonald, Davin Ebanks, Bruce Smithhammer and more). The SOPA/PIPA issue is really close to that good friend, so as a way of saying thank-you, I wanted to highlight this issue.

Mmmm... good.

I found this review of Belikin:

Belikin Lager tastes pretty much like most tropical beers: slightly sweet with very low hops flavor and a clean finish, making it a refreshing beer you can drink a lot of in the tropical heat.

Those Belikin bottles are heavy.  They weight more than any bottle of beer I’ve ever encountered.  The bottles are heavy, but don’t hold that much.  9.7 ounces, meaning you can put away quite a few. When my buddy Shane and I were down at El Pescador we put away enough for the bar tab to be over $300.

Crafty.

Belikin isn’t the kind of beer I’d drink if I were some place other than Belize. I am partial to Nut Brown Ales… Newcastle, Downtown Brown, 20″ Brown, Moose Drool.  However, I count myself lucky to drink a Belikin, because it means I’m in Belize and there is a prospect of a grand slam around the corner.