I think you need one of Karel's books, have a couple left.
let me know if I must reserve one for you.
Pieter, as a 'neutral' I'd highly recommend you go for it! The CD was a good cure for insomnia anyway!
I have a couple of books, cd's and dvd's about fishing.
I even bought "TROUT" by Ernst Swiebert for my collection the otherday.
Must say there is just something about having books stacked in the bookshelf, all various sizes (thick thin small big) and different colors, that looks so much nicer than a couple of cd's and dvd's that are lined in a cd holder. I think that half of the ambience in my flytying section will be gone if I take away the books and magazines.
I absolutely agree. I love books and have built up quite a collection over the years. Some of my best moments off the stream have been sniffing around 2nd hand book shopes in search of old fishing books.....any fishing books, not just fly fishing. I have also managed to find a few of the real rarities to add to my collection as well, and finding these was always like striking gold.
You were very lucky to find Swiebert's 'Trout' Korrie, that is like hens teeth!
"Innocence is a wild trout. But we humans, being complicated, have to pursue innocence in complex ways" - Datus Proper
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saw one on e-bay for about R600 less than what i paid for mine
Check it out, might still be available
check it for you, its gone, but every now and again there is one on e-bay
Now have Trout and Nymphs by Scwiebert.
If i look at those to books not sure how he managed to get time to fish as well.
Apparently a new edition will be coming out of Trout, with some extra work that he did. His son is responsible for the new edition with the previously unpublished work.
Might be worth keeping an eye open for it.
For me it is just opening the books and magazines.
They all have different scents, smells and aromas. Each one has a different weight, a different feel to the paper when you slide your hand over the pages to turn over another page.
Just not the same when you pop another cd into the laptop and hit Pg Up continously. Maybe it is a generation thing. Maybe if I was 16 or 18 the sound of the cd drive kicking in, and the click click of the keyboard will give me a goose pimples
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