Blog Profile / MidCurrent
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| Archived Since: | April 27, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Islamorada Film Festival to Honor Billy Pate
The first Islamorada Fishing Film Festival, scheduled for Sunday, May 22, at Founders Park (mile marker 87 bayside) at 6:30 PM will honor Billy Pate Jr., who died April 18 at age 80. The event is a fundraiser for the...
Thieving Wives and Tiers Turned Hairdressers
Late to the party but with typically excellent coverage, the Financial Times offered its take on the hackle-feather-hair-accessory craze this morning. Tim Neville describes ecstatic salon owners, tiers repurposing old saddle hackle, and wives turned suddenly curious about what their...
PBS to Air "Salmon: Running the Gauntlet"
On Sunday, May 1 at 8PM ET/PT, PBS will a air a 30-minute Nature special titled "Salmon: Running the Gauntlet." From the show description: "Nature goes beyond the ongoing debate over how to save an endangered species to expose a...
USA Today Update on Felt Sole Bans
In this morning's USAToday, Jeff DeLong summarizes the state felt sole bans that are either in effect or being considered. "The spread of didymo from Maryland's Gunpowder Falls in 2009 to the Savage River last year appears clearly linked to...
Son of Chota Founder Killed in Afghanistan
We learned yesterday that Lt. Colonel Frank Bryant, who was a fighter pilot serving in the United States Air Force, was one of those killed in the airport attack in Afghanistan that also took the lives of several other servicemen......
Hardy Announces First Annual Cane Casting Cup Competition
Yesterday Hardy USA and The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum (CFFCM) announced the first annual Hardy Bros. Cane Casting Cup casting competition, to take place at the 29th Summerfest and Anglers Market at the CFFCM on August 6. This...
Fly Shops and Undead Typewriters
The closing of Kaufman's -- a virtual institution in the U.S. northwest -- has a lot of loyal customers scratching their heads, but not so many industry insiders. The problem of how to keep local fly shops alive rises almost...
Bird-Feather Thief Escapes Jail Time
22-year-old Edwin Rist, who last November plead guilty to stealing 299 rare bird pelts from the Tring museum in England, was given a 12-month suspended prison sentence. "The museum's director of science, Professor Richard Lane, said at the time of...
Tippets: Simms Wants "Best Shoe Story," Hardy Sells Online in UK, NPR Covers Casting Call, Michigan Throws Out Trout Stream Ruling
Win a trip to Deneki's Alaska West Lodge: Simms wants to know your best “If only I had my Simms GORE-TEX® shoes when?” moment. Contestants can upload a photo to the Simms Fishing Products’ Facebook page via the Contests...
Kaufman's to File for Bankruptcy
While many customers knew Kaufman's was closing its doors last week, not until last night did the news appear that Lance Kaufman, the company's owner, would file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. Laura Gunderson broke the story in The Oregonian:...
2011 "Waters to Watch" List
The National Fish Habitat Action Plan (www.fishhabitat.org) this week released their 2011 “Waters to Watch” list, a collection of 10 "rivers, streams, lakes and estuaries that will benefit from strategic conservation efforts to protect, restore or enhance their current condition...
Confluence Films Announces November Release of "Connect"
Confluence Films, the makers of "Drift" and "Rise," just announced the release of their third film, "Connect," which will be available on DVD this fall. "Connect" will be another multi-segment collection of individual stories shot around the world and includes...
Tippets: Lime Doser Machine, Bighead Carp in Minnesota, Urban Assembly New York Harbor School
Ever wonder what a "lime doser machine" (the kind they use to de-acidify mountain streams destroyed by mining waste) looks like? West Virginia just installed three of them at the headwaters of Three Fork Creek. Minnesota officials think 27-pound...
Video Hatch: "Fly Fishing Mystery Theater" (Humor)
RA Beattie's entry into the 1st Annual Ice Out Shoot Out video competition sponsored by Simms and The Drake magazine revives an old Saturday Night Live character and includes the obligatory shot glass prop. As Beattie says: "Four groups of...
Fly Fishing People: High School Student Johnny Manzo
"Spiking machine" Johnny Manzo, who was introduced to fly fishing at at youth academy sponsored by the Santa Barbara Flyfishers, compares volleyball and fly fishing as two sports where athleticism will take you only so far. And he offers this...
Government Releases Revised Cuba Travel Guidelines
As Achy Obejas reports for WBEZ.org, this week the U.S. Treasury Department released new guidelines detailing who can travel to Cuba. "The new rules make it easier to go for specific purposes - family visits, journalism, academic research, educational purposes,...
Tippets: Brookie Sabotage, PEI Rainbow Invasion, 6-Weight "Clubs"
Saboteurs return non-native rainbows to Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Lynn Camp Prong, which biologists had just spent $300,000 clearing. University of Prince Edward Island masters candidate studying why rainbow trout are invading the island and possibly pushing out...
What's Happening to Montana's Whitefish?
Ben Pierce writes in this morning's Bozeman Chronical about the puzzling decrease in the Montana's mountain whitefish populations, noting that the problem was noticed during routine trout surveys by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. "'Anecdotal data suggests whitefish on the...
Videos: "Meet the Hendricksons"
Tim Flagler is back with another of his top-quality videos, this time a treat for bug lovers and fly tiers. "Meet the Hendricksons" offers the trout's-eye perspective of swimming, crawling and emerging Hendrickson nymphs....
Fly Fishing People: Restaurateur Raymond Blanc
In London's Financial Times, Charles Campion profiles chef, restaurateur and avid fly fisher, who learned about the outdoors by scrounging for food in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France. "If you ask him for his best fishing tip, he replies...