Kirjahaku

Hot Nymphs Dry Flies Bent Rods is an irreverent collection of true stories that will have you laughing cover-to-cover. The adventure begins in Las Vegas during the seventies where the only trout to be found were splayed out on cheesy casino buffet lines. Rick took up fly fishing in the middle of a full blown mid-life crisis and decided to re-invent himself; both personally and professionally. Thus, Trout Talk Radio was born and it wasn't long before the radio program was broadcast from Las Vegas to over 100 cities across the United States. Trout Talk took Rick to famous rivers where he fished and interviewed celebrities, writers and guides like, Mel Brooks, Tim Conway, Tracy Bird, Howell Raines, John Gierach, Captain Phil Harris, Pat McManus, Gary LaFointaine, Bob Krumm, Terry Gunn, Jason Borger, Jack Gartside and a long list of strange characters he met along the way. We meet a moose that comes uncorked on the Lamar River when a trout rises to a fly under his nose. A facial abnormality appears the night before the big Entertainment Tonight interview. Chris Daughters chums the MacKenzie River with digested Cheetos. A float down the Madison River in a pool toy winds up in disaster and a guide crashes his drift boat into a rock outcrop on the Yellowstone. You will meet the Marabou Sisters, a couple of Las Vegas showgirls turned fly fishing addicts and the Trout Talk Radio topless hookers who appeared with the former Governor of Kansas. A heroic guide impales himself on his oar on the North Platte. We get stuck waist deep in muck chasing carp in a gravel pit and rodeo trout from horseback in the Rockies.

Amid the glorious and rich history of Indian culture, the artifacts that have most affected the majority of people, and their everyday lives have been largely overlooked. Weights, so significant in agriculture, markets, trade, jewellery, medicine, and industry, commonly get relegated to the scrapyard once their use has finished. Weights first became widely used in India in the sixteenth century, with the reforms and growing influence of the Mughal Era, a period which lasted for about 300 years. Many of the weights produced during this time are remarkable for their distinct geometric and organic forms, many of which rival the individuality and grace of the highly celebrated weights of Burma. However, by the mid-nineteenth century, the influence of European colonialism transported industrialism and its ordinarity to India, and the era of cast iron weights began. This book endeavours to tackle a subject, which so far has defied treatment, and indeed, the Indian museums are largely devoid of Mughal weights in their collections.