Fly fishing and more

My second fishing trip of 2008 is due next week. I'll be fishing a new stretch of the Deutsche Traun. I get to meet up with my old frien...

What can I say? After a period without fishing, you start to wonder if you're still into the game. Well, as soon as I saw the gin clear ...

The fishing trip I took last week was great. Great company, superb weather and slightly less than usual fishing. But nonetheless a memorable...

Discovery Channel ran an episode from their 'How it is made' series on building cane rods at Thomas and Thomas . For who missed the ...

Spring is finally in the air. At our local fly fishing club the members are getting ready for the new season. My first trip of this season ...

I was complaining about the low resolution of movies when watching fly fishing and fly tying clips on YouTube. With the standard low quality...

Our friend Marcelo Calviello just returned from an amazing fishing trip in Patagonia . Just the sound of it makes most fishermen mouth-wate...

W hat was your first high end rod? Mine was Orvis . Orvis is one of the oldest fly rod manufacturers in the world. Founded by Charles F. Orv...

While you're at the TastyApps site, check out this amazing application called WebSnapper . I've seen web page saving applications (...

Not a very common sight: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together in an interview. These gentlemen have been in the computer arena since the start...

It's pretty impossible to film a video and fish at the same time. Unless you have someone walking next to you. Yet my guess is that the ...

It's pretty funny that some 20 years ago we used to use personal computers by typing in commands like DIR and MD FOLDER for simple tasks...

The recent trip to the Goiserer Traun turned out to be a mixed bag. Basically it was a get together with my friend John, enjoying the amazin...

My first visit to the Rocky Mountains region in 1992, I ran into some very memorable moments. That year I saw the majestic scenery of the pa...

It's early November and it's hard to imagine how a nice and sunny day feels like. Talking about the weather! 2007 is surely one of t...

The iPhone has been released in the UK and Germany today. No sign of it being released in The Netherlands yet... Folks are buying these iPh...

I lawn casted the new SA's Sharkskin line today. It was a WF5 and boy does it cast! The line is: * Very limp; * It holds no memory at a...

The rain jacket for the serious fly fisherman was and still is the Patagonia SST Jacket (SST stands for salmon, steelhead and trout). The or...

One of my photo's from my recent April trip made it 'picture of the week' on the RiverBum site! Check it out at RiverBum .

These guys at the Angling Exploration Group are some lucky guys. Seems like these guys don't have to take care of mortgage, 9-5 jobs an...

Wifi is everywhere these days and now it's also in my home. I bought the Airport Extreme with the latest and fastest IEEE 802.11n prot...

Just curious: Is anyone doing this?...