Off Topic

Some Like It HOT...!

feeds@yuku.com (splitcane) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:41:56 GMT

The Garden is Bountiful this Year...!

Look at them Tomato's busting thru the cage...

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Travelling - river suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (treefish) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:24:54 GMT

I've got a few out of state trips coming up in the next several months, and have decided that I will take an extra day in each location and fish the local rivers (assuming there are any good options). I always prefer to ask people who know the area, instead of simply checking it out on-line. So - how about a general travel log thread?

I'm headed to Chattanooga, Tn in early October, and Scottsdale, Az in late October. Any suggestions for rivers and guides?

Strange summer

feeds@yuku.com (raywright) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:25:20 GMT

As we wind down the summer and plummet headlong into harvest season I reflect that this has been another strange season in Southern Colorado, but then when do we ever have a "normal" season anymore? The Rio Grande and Conejos rivers peaked almost a month early on the 8th of May, and then settled in to a long runoff, with good flows, sometimes augmented with reservoir releases continuing until around the first of August. We had some unusual rains in May and June, but when it turned...

A philosophical question

feeds@yuku.com (jayhake) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:52:55 GMT

If you post a post in the off topic section or this board, and the subject of the post is off the topic of bamboo rods, etc., is your post really off topic at that point, or is it on topic?

About Burris Optics

feeds@yuku.com (Joe Arguello) — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:28:10 GMT

All;

Back about 1998 or so I bought a pair of Burris binoculars, seems to me that with my discount they were about $250.00 retailed around $500.00 Well long story short over the years they just seemed to lose their 'luster'. They got hard to adjust and just seemed to not be right. Well when I lived in Greeley, CO I used to pass by their factory every day! So yesterday I thought I would take these binoculars up there and see if it was just my imagination or if there was...

While in the hospital

feeds@yuku.com (FishingRabbi) — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:56:23 GMT

I'm going into the hospital later this week for a little cardiac "tune-up". Hopefully, (G-d willing), I won't be in for too long. Anyway I'm looking for some suggestions for light (ie, readable under the influence of significant pain-killing drugs) and humorous reading material . Doesn't have to fly fishing themed - but it wouldn't hurt.
Thanks for the help,
Best
the FishingRabbi

Interesting essay

feeds@yuku.com (dsmithbzn) — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:52:11 GMT

So, for me this does peripherally relate to bamboo rod making. Or to making anything. Anyway, I do think it was a real shame that shop class (industrial arts) at my high school was openly felt to be a backwater for guys going nowhere. I'm sorry I missed out on shop class.
-Dan Smith

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?pagewanted=1&em

Gawith Hoggarth Tobacco Reviews

feeds@yuku.com (Pipesmoke) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:30:52 GMT

Here's a short series of reviews I did for another publication awhile back. I hope you find them enlightening.

Gawith Hoggarth Tobacco Samples
Recently I acquired several samples of Gawith Hoggarth blends, nine different ones to be exact. As I smoke them I will share my impression of each, though I hasten to add that I make no pretense of having the kind of refined palate requisite to being an expert reviewer.

Gawith Hoggarth: Broken Scotch Cake
The...

Favorite Recipes

feeds@yuku.com (Joe Arguello) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:34:53 GMT

Joe's 60...

Pipe Tobacco Reviews

feeds@yuku.com (Pipesmoke) — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:07:57 GMT
As you may have figured out, I am a pipe smoker. Pipe smoking and fly fishing have long enjoyed a happy association and I, for one, intend to uphold that joyous tradition. Perhaps some of you enjoy a briar while casting your bamboo, like I do. With that possibility in mind, I've thought it may be helpful to post a tobacco review from time to time. Here's the first:

ERINMORE MIXTURE
Made In Northern Ireland
By Murray Sons & Company LTD Belfast"
(Lane...

Sharp, pointy knives!

feeds@yuku.com (Curley) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:33:56 GMT

This might be mostly for Joe, but I am wondering what other people's experiences have been with knife-sharpening. So, the biggest problem I have been having is using the "X"-shaped sharpeners that have two steel (or ceramic) rods crossed, and you run the knife through them. I can not get them to keep a point on the very tip of the blade. This is extremely important to me, as I mostly use knife points to remove bamboo slivers

Another hobby in France

feeds@yuku.com (SUNNFRANCE) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:59:30 GMT
My another hobby is : restore verry old motorcycle : Bmw russian and jeep and verry old morcycle americain : Indian power + 1917 and army motorcycle Harley davidson wlc year 1942.....

Another hobby!

feeds@yuku.com (Joe Arguello) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:44:46 GMT
Well I don't collect these (can't afford them) but I do make a few of these. I hand forge the blades, assemble the knives and even hand stitch the sheaths.