Found a great little article in The Field (a British sporting mag). The cliff note version of the article is this… cheap bonefish. The author is a Brit, which makes me like him just for the high probability we could talk soccer/football (oh Newcastle, hope you make it back on the bounce). The article is great, the writing is grand and the author seems like a guy you’d like to cast a line with.
This particular angler is Charles Rangeley-Wilson, an angler and writer of some reputation and maybe even a bit of fame over there in England (maybe even other places, as far as I know). Awfully British of him to go by Charles… no Charlie, no Chuck… but Brits are Brits and he even packed chocolate biscuits with him on a shoestring trans-Atlantic bonefish expedition… something here about “you can take the angler out of Briton but you can’t take the Briton out of the angler.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8u9bygLV50&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6
Turns out Charles has an addiction I can sympathize with…
All the time-bomb tension of the previous few seconds, the held breath, the frozen body, the eyes straining for information, is suddenly released when a bonefish takes. I doubt there is anything else in sport to rival that uncoiling rush. It’s like a drug and I for one am addicted to it. (from The Field article linked above)
Charles with a bonefish
Charles has made a movie about his obsession called “Bonefish: A Fishing Odyssey.” Now, I’d like to see this movie… I’d like to see it very much. However, still stinging from the American Revolution, the dvd is not yet for sale in an American-friendly dvd format (although this is coming, and coming soon, as I understand it). Keep an eye out for it, or, just check here and I’ll let you know when you too can get your copy.
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