Songs about fly fishing?

[Oldfrat]

OK, here's a wierd post. I've recently become addicted to fly fishing. It
takes me to beautiful places and so totally occupies my mind that I get
hours of respite from any concerns. Zen with a Technicolor Z!

Would like to learn some songs about fly fishing -- but have never heard
any. If such songs exist, chances are they'll be in the folk idiom.
Certainly wouldn't expect any in heavy metal!

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[Hodagg]

>Would like to learn some songs about fly fishing

Greg Brown has a couple that I know of: "Fishing With Bill" off his cd with
Bill Morrissey, and "Laughing River" from his Dream Cafe cd.

Rick

[Paul Burke]

Oldfrat wrote:
>
> OK, here's a wierd post. I've recently become addicted to fly fishing.

Fly fishing? Maybe more appropriate to ask one of the alt.sex ng's.

Oh.. sorry, I understand, you've taken up FISHING FOR FLIES. That's
right, kill the buggers. But a double- barrelled shotgun might be
quicker.

Paul Burke

[Abby Sale]

On Mon, 27 May 2002 23:57:17 -0600, "Oldfrat" <old...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

A quick search at DigTrad gives one of my favorite quasi-bawdy songs, THE
FURZE FIELD, a good "broken token' travesty, ANGUS HEMPSTEAD. Then
there's odd stuff like THE BOATIE ROW. There's a wonderful little song
called THE COD BANGING SONG which obviously isn't about fly fishing but
that I've just first heard on Vol 2 of _Voice of the People_ and am
happily learning. (Now here's a case in which DigTrad got the chorus right
and the booklet from VotP got it wrong.)

The following floater verse occurs in about 400 songs but I'm not at all
clear if that's fly fishing or just fly usage.

There's as good fish into the sea
As ever yet was taken.
I'll cast my line and I'll try again
For I'm only once forsaken.

A search on keyword "@fish" gives 47 songs. Although most are about
fishermen at sea, not all are. And a Boolean search on "fish* AND line"
gives a bunch of interesting songs and/or verses. There'll be more, too.

And while your head is in that attractive, beautiful place you describe,
you may wish to make use of this wonderful serenity piece that Sid (Mrs
President Taylor) sent me...

Serenity training
-----------------
Picture yourself near a stream.....

Birds are softly chirping in the crisp, cool, mountain air.....

No one knows your secret place. You are in total seclusion from that
hectic place called "the world".

The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of
serenity.....

The water is clear.

You can easily make out the face of the person you're holding under the
water.

There now...feeling better?

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[bogus address]

> Would like to learn some songs about fly fishing -- but have never
> heard any. If such songs exist, chances are they'll be in the folk
> idiom. Certainly wouldn't expect any in heavy metal!
>
> Any suggestions?

I have never heard any either, but I have *seen* a whole book of
them, "Songs of the Edinburgh Angling Club" from the 1880s. The
authors, if I remember right, wisely stayed anonymous.

You really, really don't want to know.

There is one good song about this, Schubert's "Die Forelle".

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[Oldfrat]

Thanks to all who have responded to date. Abby, special thanks for making
me laugh!

The face under the water image more closely resembles my thoughts when golf
was my main hobby. Often the face was mine!

Today I caught my first two Colorado trout. My grins extended back beyond
my ears. After removng the hook and reviving them with upstream moves that
brought oxygen into their gills, it was a total rush to see them recover and
swim
off again! I think there is a lot of commonality between folk music and fly
fishing.

[Mcob2]

there waws that poet of the sixties , why i can't remember his name i dont know
but the book was "trout fishing in america"--poetry his thing about trout
fishing on littles streams like climbing into so many telephone boooths sticks
with me. of course those are gone now

[Jack Aldrich]

Richard Brautigan

[Pamela Beasley]

Druther by John Denver It starts with the following:

If I had my druthers I'd go fishing
Find myself a lake and a lazy day
If I had my druthers I'd quit wishing
Get off the old caboose, get on my way........

John was addicted to fly fishing, too. Some of my most favorite video
footage of John are the three "Fly Fishing the World" shows he did. On
the first one, he caught a 32-inch brown trout in Chili.

[MittensOnFire]

I'll bet you that there are lots of Canadians with Fly Fishing songs. At least
seven. All the small knots and so forth, it's got to be Canadians. Or robots.
Robots could write some Fly Fishing songs. Somebody should go invent some
robots that will write songs on command, on any topic. For example, bunions,
narcolepsy, cheetahs, chrome, robbery, fur coats, Led Zeppelin, and so forth.
And in any language or style. Get to work, folks, on the robots!!!!!
Love,
some dumb ass bastard with too much time on his hands and a computer with an
internet connection

[Gerry Myerson]

In article <20020601011356...@mb-fq.aol.com>,
mitten...@aol.com (MittensOnFire) wrote:

-> Somebody should go invent some robots that will write songs on
-> command, on any topic. For example, bunions, narcolepsy, cheetahs,
-> chrome, robbery, fur coats, Led Zeppelin, and so forth.

Oh I robbed some fur coats from Led Zeppelin
To cover up the bunions on my chrome
But my cheetahs all came down with narcolepsy
Oh why did I ever leave home?
--
Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edi.ai) (i -> u for email)

[h...@inav.net]

What about Yeat's Song of the Wandering Aengus.....I don't know if
this counts as fly fishing, but he wrote (and Judy Collins sang):

I went out to the hazel wood, because a fire was in my head
And cut and peeled a hazel wand and hooked a berry to a thread
And when white moths were on the wing, and
moth-like stars were flickering out
I dropped the berry in the stream
and caught a little silber trout.

Howard Weinberg

On Mon, 27 May 2002 23:57:17 -0600, "Oldfrat" <old...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>OK, here's a wierd post. I've recently become addicted to fly fishing. It

[Oldfrat]

Hey, that my be the best one yet! I think there's a Bud & Travis version of
this as will. Will have to go dig through some of my old vinyl.

thanks!

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[Rebecky]

Not "folk", but you have to remember Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby's
rendition of "Gone Fishing" -- what an easy, lazy, delightful little
song.

Rebecky

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[Pamela Beasley]

Rebecky wrote:
>
> Not "folk", but you have to remember Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby's
> rendition of "Gone Fishing" -- what an easy, lazy, delightful little
> song.
>
> Rebecky

I vote for the version of "Gone Fishing" by John Denver and his Muppet
friend on "Rocky Mountain Holiday.."

Pam

[Robert Dangl]

How About "The Slippery Rock Rag" by Douglas Wood ? from the album Deep
Woods, Deep Waters No Words but lots to the imagination.
"Pamela Beasley" <pamela....@airmail.net> wrote in message
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[folkyboy]

i could be coming in at the complete end of this discussion but Greg Brown
has a song about him and Bill Morrissey fly fishing called "Fishing With
Bill". now this could have stemmed from said song but i didn't see it
mentioned on any of the threads so thats why i chipped in! :) ~tim