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Hamish Young

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #420 on: 09/03/2011 at 08:40 »
OK, another wee tricky one:

Who am I :?

I have had articles published in many fishing magazines but am perhaps best known for the various books I've written or co-written on game angling.
My first book was published in 1960 and my first magazine article was in 1955.
I've bumped into Hamish a few times (when he was but a lad) on the west coast on a river I fished a lot - which might be a very solid clue :wink

So.... who am I :?

:z3

Peter McCallum

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #421 on: 09/03/2011 at 08:41 »
Fred Buller

Graham Ritchie

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #422 on: 09/03/2011 at 11:50 »
Bill Currie

Richard Tong

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #423 on: 09/03/2011 at 12:30 »
Neil Graesser?

Peter McCallum

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #424 on: 09/03/2011 at 13:29 »
Ian Wood

Steven Sinclair

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #425 on: 09/03/2011 at 15:13 »
Bruce Sandison?

Hamish Young

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #426 on: 09/03/2011 at 20:31 »
Bill Currie

Is the right answer - can see I'll need to make these trickier for you Graham :wink

:z3

Peter McCallum

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #427 on: 10/03/2011 at 09:12 »
Not quite a joker but can anyone explain what the art of 'Gyotaku' is?

Jim Eddie

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #428 on: 10/03/2011 at 12:55 »
Not quite a joker but can anyone explain what the art of 'Gyotaku' is?

Is it something like Japanese brass rubbing with fish ?

Cheers

Jim

Peter McCallum

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #429 on: 10/03/2011 at 16:27 »
Is it something like Japanese brass rubbing with fish ?

Cheers

Jim

Almost Jim but not quite

Alex Burnett

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #430 on: 11/03/2011 at 17:06 »
Ah so..that would be an old way of recording fish sizes using sumi ink & paper 19th Century...ish japan.

Alex


Peter McCallum

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #431 on: 11/03/2011 at 22:27 »
Ah so..that would be an old way of recording fish sizes using sumi ink & paper 19th Century...ish japan.

Alex



Tis so.... also by John Gierach in 'Where the trout are all as long as your leg'

Over to you Alex

Alex Burnett

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #432 on: 12/03/2011 at 07:43 »
OK I am going to go with a Hamish type question..see how you get on with this one.

I am a long, thin, perch-like commercial food fish & I belong to the Gempylidae family.
I am found in the seas of the Southern Hemisphere.

In Australasia as I am known as a barracouta although I am not related to the barracuda.

I can grow up to 79" long and weigh as much as 13 lb.

In South Africa what is my name & which language does it come from?

Noel Kelly

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #433 on: 12/03/2011 at 11:36 »
Snoek/Dutch  :z18

Alex Burnett

Re: General Knowledge - Fly Fishing
« Reply #434 on: 12/03/2011 at 18:43 »
Correct Noel

Over to you

 




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