So activity on my website will go into enforced hibernation for a few days, but I hope to post some interesting material when I get back.
This is the first trip I’m making where the number of cameras I will be lugging around actually outnumbers the number of fly rods I’m taking. I will have my Sage XP 5, Sage 3-weight ZXL and a great and honest friend, my Orvis Limestone 6-weight. I’ll have four fly lines; a 5-weight Sci-Angler floater with a clear intermediate tip, two Sci-Angler floaters in 5 and 6-weight and an express sinker that I hope I don’t need to use. Cameras will be a Canon 7D, a 40D and a 20D and a new Sony NEX 5N. Lenses will include Canon’s in 70 – 200, 24 – 105, 17 -55, 10 -22 and 28 – 300. How I plan handle all these cameras and lenses in my FishCat float tube I will show you after I get back. In theory my idea is ingenious. We’ll have to see what happens in practise!
Dron Lee Master Fly Tyer
I had an email from Hans van Klinken to say that Dron Lee, a young Malaysian fly tyer, was something really special. Saltwater fly fishers will be particularly interested.
Dron Lee - Photo from Sport Fishin' Asia website
I was most impressed with what I saw of his skills on his fascinating website and a little embarrassed that I hadn’t known that Malaysia had such an active and accomplished fly tying and fly fishing community.
In September the United Fly-Anglers Organisation Malaysia (UFOM) holds its annual International Fly Fishing Festival (IFFF) with people like Hans van Klinken and Marc Petitjean attending. Here’s Dron Lee’s website:
http://dronsworld.blogspot.com/
Birthday Gift
My daughter Victoria blessed me with a fabulous birthday gift on the 17th of this month, a fossilised fish. Appropriate in more ways than one I thought.
Conn Bertish’s Experiment 0834319513
During 2011, Conn Bertish, a senior advertising executive in Cape Town, collected defunct city signage, stripped them of their advertorial origins and hand-painted new text on them. One by one the repurposed signs were then put up in public places throughout the greater Cape Town area.
Con refers to his works as ‘… referencing our country’s existing traditions of low-tech advertising’. His cell number was included on each sign.
Through the use of ambiguous language that related to the places the signs were put up he soon acquired a sort of mysterious cult status. His cell number allowed for an incidental audience to respond to his text, creating as he says, ‘…a relational and interactive element to my artwork. ‘
I attended Conn’s exhibition of the year’s signage on Friday night and was totally fascinated by the man’s genius for the absurd. One sign on a pole right outside Pollsmoor Prison simply read, ‘Pardons’ – above his cell number.
Another, stuck on a pillar at the entrance to the Cape High Court reads, ‘Alibis’, again above 0834319513. That sign stayed up for a full five days!
Okay, it’s not fly fishing, I know, but it sure is tongue in cheek parody at its ultimate best.
To see more of Conn’s brilliance on this kind of thinking follow this link http://0834319513.blogspot.com/
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