Randy Kadish
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I don’t like overlining rods. To me the Xi2 isn’t that stiff. I guess the only time I’d consider overlining is if I was sight fishing and had to make short, quick casts.
BTW, many manufacturers make their lines slightly heavier than the traditional guidelines. (They do this for today’s fast rods.) If you call the companies they will tell you the weight of their lines.
Randy
I cast a 4-weight March Brown. It was a very nice rod, but not too fast from what I remember. Great small stream rod.
Randy
More and more tournament bass fishermen are going to flouro. They must know something.
I started using flouro for dry fly fishing.
I fish a real clear stream and find it’s easier using flouro 5x than mono 7x.
Randy
Stay in the moment and live my resentments behind. (And of course say healthy so I can fish do the things I love.)
Randy
Still pursuing the techniques and spirituality of an ideal cast …
http://www.flyandsincasting.comI like his philosphy. It seems the trend in “literary” writing is to write long sentences with many clauses. This kind of writing drives me crazy, though I certainly believe it’s important for a writer to vary the length of his/her sentences.
Randy
I’m not sure how to answer your question. Perhaps you can be more specific.
I guess the simple answer to submit. Some print publications allow you to submit via email. Most allow multiple submissions.
Randy
I know some of you guys are going to laugh; and I’m not saying it’s the best fly fishing town or city, but New York has some surprisingly good fishing opportunities. In Westchester we have some great streams. The Catskill Rivers are fairly close by, as are some of the Connecticut rivers. Also, we have some of the best striped bass fishing, from boats, piers or surf. Finally, we even have fishing in some of the city’s parks.
Randy
I like to read a little of everything, including destination and how-to articles.
What I’d like to see more of are serious memoirs that are outside the mold of the usual humorous stories.
Also, I like learning about new products, but product reviews, well magazines, I guess, are afraid of offending sponsors, so I take the reviews with a grain of salt.
Randy
I love the Orvis reels, great bang for the buck. I’m not sure if the Sage is a lighter reel, if not, I’d go with the Orvis.
Randy
If you’re looking for something fast, I’d look at the St. Croix Legend, or the Cabela’s FT+. (Some people feel they’re basically the same rod.) If you want something a little slower, check out the St. Croix Avid.
But for salt, I too would go with a fast rod.
Randy
You can attach the backing to the running (sometimes called shooting) line the way you would to a regular fly line, with a nail knot.
The shooting head has a small loop in the back. The running line should have a big loop in the front, so that you can attach the shooting head before you unroll it. This makes it easier to change heads, in my opinion. But not all running lines come with big loops. I know the Orvis lines do. With some running lines you have to make the loop yourself. Some people, however, add a small, loop-to-loop connector to the front of their running lines. This will work, but it will make it harder to change heads – you’ll have to unroll the head that pull the whole line through the small loop –
Structuring Your Novel by Robert C. Meredith and John D. Fitzgerald has an excellent chapter on viewpoint.
Randy
As far as I know you can resubmit. It won’t get you blackballed.
The First Five Pages is an excellent book.
There are many great writing books out there. What I did is highlight everything I didn’t know, that way I could quickly go over the material.
To me writing is like golf: I have to keep practicing techniques, and though I’ll never reach a perfect swing, I’ll keep trying.I would leave the photoshop work to the editors, but I don’t know much about that. I used slides.
Randy
Here’s some books I used, though they’re slanted to what some have called the birthplace of fly fishing in America, the Beaverkill:
Martin Keane’s, Classic Rod and Rodmakers; Ed van Put’s The Beaverkill (and his newest book); Austin Francis’s Catskill Rivers.
Keane’s book is very rare and expensive. Luckily some libraries have it.
Also, check out this blog:
http://fishinghistory.blogspot.comRandy
As far as I know, and I’ve published many memoirs in print and online magazines, you still own them and can publish them in a book.
(If a magazine wants to own all rights to your story they will let you know and ask you to sign a contract. They will then probably let you buy the rights back down the road.)
In fact, many online magazines will publish stories that appeared in print and online.
Randy
I have a different take. If writing first-person essays is in your heart, and you feel you have something to say, go for it, but be aware that the print magazine market is limited, and you might have to settle to publish in online magazines that don’t pay.
(IMHO, a memoir should be about the writer experiencing a value change, so if at the start of my story, for example, I have resentment toward a person, by the end of my story I should see the person in a more sympathetic light. Also. from a technique standpoint, writing in the first person is the easiest way to go.)
My first national publication was a first-person essay in The FlyFisher.
I don’t think there’s any formula for becoming a book writer. Some start out by writing and publishing a book, others start out by writing shorter pieces and building up a resume.
(Who knows: one of your essays might turn into an idea for a book.)
As to the many I’s in your story: Once you’ve established you’re writing in the first person you can eliminate many of them. For example: If you have a sentence like, I saw the sunlight crash, then shimmer on the water -forgive my cliche – change the sentence to, the sunlight crashed then shimmered on the water.
Randy Kadish
It’s thunderstorm season. This thread on another board might be very helpful in keeping us safe:
http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=760604
Randy
