Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. Or is it?
Courtesy of the tackle industry. I don't know whether to run away screaming...or just laugh.
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Fly-Fishing stories and Essays by Erik Helm.
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"If angling is the contemplative sport, as Mr. Walton would have us understand, that contemplation should not be on the final destination, but upon the path that led us there. Let that path not be the easy one nor the commonplace, but one of inner discovery and learning, for that much the better when the fish is finally brought to hand." Erik Helm
"“If the world were clear, art would not exist.” Albert Camus
"“If the world were clear, art would not exist.” Albert Camus
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A quiet rest stop for we anglers who enjoy tradition and literary effort, and a site that intends to inspire, question, and spur thinking.
There is power in words, and art in the angling which we need to appreciate. as we journey through the riffles of life, never forget the art and the approach are as important as the fish brought to hand.
If you like this blog, please tell others about it and link to it.
There is power in words, and art in the angling which we need to appreciate. as we journey through the riffles of life, never forget the art and the approach are as important as the fish brought to hand.
If you like this blog, please tell others about it and link to it.
Comment from the archives: This is the greatest writing on fly-fishing I have ever read since the stories of Traver and MacQuarrie. Your use of analogies and the romance and reference to art are one of a kind. Keep writing and keep this art alive please!
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- Bob Blumreich's site
- Classic rod and reel forum
- Classical Angler guide service and schools
- Cutthroat Stalker
- Hand made fly reels by William Olson
- Jeff Kennedy's fly art website
- My Literary Site
- My site with my mother's artwork
- Poppie's Red Shed flyshop
- Redwing Flyrods (Cane) Joe Balestrieri
- Single Barbed Blog
- The American Fly Fishing Museum
About Me
- Erik Helm
- Driftless, Wisconsin, United States
- I am a middle aged hyper-creative writer, angler, and hopeless romantic.
Sunset on a western river
One day we will see "Darth Vader" anglers with drop down visors that change colour to suit the light conditions, wrist computers that tell you the optimal fly, and hooks that have on-board micro cameras that give you "real-time" video in your head-set.......
ReplyDeleteGod help us!
Tony, have you read "Trout Fishing in America" by Richard Brautigan?
ReplyDeleteHas anyone seen Loomis' fake scrimshaw on their spey rods?
ReplyDeleteGive me a break!
nice shimano gear...
ReplyDeleteYes Jim, I read it in the mid 1970s I think. Don't remember much about it other than Brautigan impressed me at the time. I look it up again.
ReplyDeleteTight Lines