[Phil Monahan]

Nice.

[Phil Monahan]

Thanks to all for the advice. Frankly, I punted: I went with the single Rx Costa Pescador in mirror-gray with 580 glass. I’ll have to take them off to tie knots, but I think it’ll be safer for wading and there’s a smaller chance that I’ll have problems. (Truth be told, I’m one of those guys who rarely changes flies.) I may try the stick-on technique if I need it.

[Phil Monahan]

Thanks all. Editors decided not to go with the char/dolly/bull shot (which is one of the great things about this method of submission: no one had to spend money to mail or anything), but I’ll keep all these in the memory bank for future use.

1. Got a steelhead pic from Henry Gilbey.
2. And Jeannie Ackley was kind enough to run down to a river near her in NZ and shoot some didymo.

Thanks again to all!

Phil

[Phil Monahan]

That’s pretty damned cool, Morsie. I’ll remember you have that one for future use.

But snooze and you DO lose.

Phil

[Phil Monahan]

Thanks, Stu! Please send me an invoice for $50 to monahanp@orvis.com.

Here’s the post: http://www.orvisnews.com/FlyFishing.aspx

IA comes through again.

Phil

[Phil Monahan]

Thanks to all for the great submissions.

Hey, look! There’s Jay’s photo:

http://www.orvisnews.com/FlyFishing/tips-maximum-efficiency.aspx

If you read the copy, you’ll understand why this was the winner.

Phil

[Phil Monahan]

I should note that these will all run small, in the “Headwaters” section of AA, so we’re looking at $100 each. So not THAT much more than the blog stuff.

[Phil Monahan]

No entries for the second photo need?

2. For a short piece on always keeping your fly in the water, i need a shot of someone looking in a fly box while his line trails downstream or someone walking upstream while dragging his line thru the water.

[Phil Monahan]

Thanks a lot for all the submissions, guys. The speed of this endeavor never ceases to amaze me. Here’s the post with Eric’s photo:

http://www.orvisnews.com/FlyFishing.aspx

Phil

[Phil Monahan]

Another winner! Ding ding ding! Neal Osborn, come on down!

http://www.orvisnews.com/FlyFishing/Casting-from-a-Drift-Boat.aspx

[Phil Monahan]

Hey Aaron,

Read the post on OrvisNews.com. It claims to contain the best Canada goose recipe ever. Lemme know what you think.

Phil

[Phil Monahan]

Thanks, John. Grabbed the single flying goose.

http://www.OrvisNews.com/Hunting.aspx

Send me an invoice, please, at monahanp@orvis.com

Another IA photo success story!

[Phil Monahan]

Thanks, guys. Jan’s shot is up already here:

http://www.orvisnews.com/FlyFishing.aspx

Oh, and here’s one of Brett’s from the previous photo call:

http://www.orvisnews.com/Conservation.aspx

I hope to keep turning to IA folks for this stuff, and I appreciate all your submissions.

Phil

[Phil Monahan]

Lots of great stuff, guys. Thanks a lot. I’ll be returning to this thread, especially for some of those brookie shots!

The blog is live now. Check it out at http://www.orvisnews.com

And here’s Corey’s shot to go with the post on big streamers: http://www.orvisnews.com/FlyFishing/tips-big-streamers.aspx

Phil

[Phil Monahan]

Some good stuff, guys. Lemme point Joe Healy here to check them out.

Phil

[Phil Monahan]

Just off the top of my head, without thinking about it too much:

1. Learn what the passive voice is and avoid it at all cost.

2. The simplest way to say something is usually the best way.

3. Learn to use a dictionary and a thesaurus, and be aware that you never use a thesaurus without also using a dictionary. I once had a student describe a rock as “suave,” and it took me a couple minutes to realize that he had chosen the word from a list of synonyms for “smooth.”

4. Spell-check does not catch words that are spelled correctly, but are not the right words. (viz. “looses” for “loses”

[Phil Monahan]

Now, wait a minute. Y’all bought that idea that American Angler uses “flys” instead of “flies”? That’s just silly.

I think Zach is misremembering. The AA style sheet calls for the use of “drys” instead of “dries” for the plural of “dry” (meaning single dry fly). Example: “I asked him if he was fishing drys or nymphs.” The reason for that is that the word “dries” is confusing in some contexts in which you’d find it in a fly-fishing magazine. Also, the word “dry” is an adjective which stands in for the noun phrase “dry fly.” We don’t have plural adjectives in English, so the y-to-ie rule wouldn’t really apply. But that’s some arcane shizz right there.

I would argue that the AA style sheet, originally written by the great Art Scheck, with only minor tweaks by me, should be the ultimate authority on fly-fishing usage.

[Phil Monahan]

First, allow me to point out that there’s no such thing as “very unique.”

[Phil Monahan]

Sorry, that’s JOHN Norman Maclean. The Reverend.

[Phil Monahan]

Eh. I think triploids need their own category. What’s to stop me from pen-raising a ginormous triploid, releasing it into a 2-acre pond, and then catching it for a record?

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