FishTales Podcast

Posted March 15, 2010 By Editor

Coffee and Antelope: A Familiar Essay 15:46 – Angling’s senior man of letters, Gordon Wickstrom, reads from a recent edition of his (now online) gazette, The Bouldercreek Angler, in which he recounts his lifelong addiction to a great cup of Joe.

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FishTales Podcast

The True Birth of Fly Fishing

Posted February 8, 2010 By Editor

Mahakita's Way 13:55 - A primitive recording from Columbian angler Nicolas Olano recounting a wonderful native legend of how fly fishing might have begun, not on the chalk streams of England but rather in the Amazonian jungle of Columbia. This surprising, but certainly plausible revelation, may have you reconsidering the chronological significance of Ælian's Natural History or Dame Juliana's The Treatyse on Fysshynge with an Angle. And it will certainly have you buying into such a possibility if you have ever fly fished for "tucunare," or peacock bass.

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