So I know it’s been a while, but what can I say…..sorry. Just wanted to let everyone know that while I wouldn’t expect more blog posts out of me on a regular basis, every so often it is not inconceivable that I will get a wild hair up my ass and post something random. If you don’t expect much, when I do come through it seems more grandiose….ask my wife. Enjoy some pics that I didn’t take.
- dave
Today’s little video comes to us via Facebook from Thomas Grimes. Summer in the Southern Highlands is not a bad place to be if you ask me , or probably if you ask Grimey for that matter (yes, that is your new nickname Thomas…thank The Simpsons for that one. Keep an eye out for our new summer issue (Comes out Monday the 16th) to check out more radical summer fun…dude.
- Dave
Judging by the SCOF inbox, the Cobia in the Low Country have been blowing up the past couple of weeks. Never ones to keep all the goodness for ourselves here is a video SCOF fan Bryan Bowers sent us ,and some fantabulous (figure since same sex marriage is the new black now, I better learn the vocabulary) grip and grins from our buddy Ken’s last trip down low. Hopefully this is enough to keep you from ending it all this close to the weekend. Enjoy.
- Dave
Amongst my inane blog chatter the last few months it may have not been apparent that we are actually a magazine that puts out…well a magazine. The first and ever issue of SCOF, if you don’t count the Spring issue, will hit your basement computers within two weeks of me writing this. I am probably gonna pee myself with excitement at least three times between now and then, ok maybe four. We have been feverishly writing gibberish, and taking photos of the weird, in preparation for unleashing our special Southern brand of ridiculosity upon the masses. Until that happens keep checking back in with us, I might just have a nervous breakdown right in front of your eyes.
…and just so you don’t think reading this was a complete waste of your Thursday, ponder this,
What came first the fly fisherman or his tweeds?
Think about it….
-Dave
There is something rotten in the Smokies. It has not been a good week to be a Southern national park and the outlook for next week ain’t so bright either. A sewage treatment plant wall collapsed tragically killing workers at the plant, and sending 850,000 gallons of sewage (minus the solids) into the Little Pigeon River, near Gatlinburg. If this wasn’t bad enough it looks like the park is going to be shutdown next week as a result of the impending overall government shutdown. Lucky for the folks who live in those Appalachian towns that rely on revenue from park visitors, it looks like everyone will be able to take a nice unpaid two-week vacation right as the season is really starting to crank up. Can you sense the sarcasm here folks?
- Dave
Steve’s fishing. I’m writing. Doesn’t seem fair, does it? Well since I already started the post I might as well finish it. We have a string of warm weather headed our way in WNC starting this weekend and it extends all the way through the ten day forecast. It’s the kind of weather forecast that makes me want cast aside my computer, grab my rod, and go punch some piscatorial adversaries right in the face. Guide season starts in a month or so and my personal fishing days tend to trend downward, which is a direct inverse relationship my bank account during the same period (funny how that works). So between tying more Y2K’s and Wooly Boogers then I ever want contemplate, and taking care of all the truck and boat maintenance that I have put off till now, I will be elbow deep in a river near you for the next thirty days. My internal clock is ticking…I hope nobody gets hurt.
- Dave
