Metalhead II, Fish Bum Diary Review

by Wayne Mumford on March 8, 2010

Metalhead II, AEG Trout Bum Diaries

Imagine giving your kids a lot of cool, expensive equipment; boats, rafts,  a small arsenal of various kinds of fly fishing gear, a complete camping outfit and enough spending money to keep them in coffee, booze and cheap feed for a few weeks of unsupervised fun. That’s kind of what came to mind while watching Metalhead II. Am I jealous, hell yes.

This show basically covers a trout bum steelheading adventure in British Columbia, something anyone of us would love to do. The idea of doing a film on steelheading sounds great but it quickly becomes apparent that this show is more about the trials and tribulations of “trout bumming” than it is about getting down to some serious fishing.

Most of the film is spent in overly long dialogs about hard ass border cops, life in camp, cursing foul weather, getting the truck out of the mud and uncooperative fish. These are always part of the program so to speak, but not the program, in my opinion. It did make a couple passing comments on the current declines in wild fish populations but there was no real fork in the frog conviction to it.

This film would be a lot more interesting and entertaining if it had edited out about three quarters of the “slumming” and put in a lot more time actually covering the steelhead, steelhead country and of course, steelhead (or metalhead) fishing.

There was however, enough river footage and leaping “metalheads”  to make you want to get the maps out and knock the winter cob webs and dust off the equipment and head for the river.

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Fish Bum Vol. II Metalhead, Fly Fishing School for Kids

by Wayne Mumford March 4, 2010

An interesting looking package landed in my mailbox a couple days ago, a review copy of AEG (Trout Bum Diaries), FISH BUM VOLUME II, Metalhead. Thanks guys for sending that up. I will give it a gander here and report back ASAP. That covers kinda scary.
I’m hoping for some furious fishing footage on the open [...]

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Rio Titanium Bite Tippet

by Wayne Mumford March 2, 2010

From Moldy Chum.

I’m going to have to give this a try on the ol’ Snotrockets this year. Thanks, El Guapo!

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Fly

by Wayne Mumford March 1, 2010

In my dreams, and there only…
It’s just that first step.
Last June, for my birthday it was suggested I do a tandem skydiving jump. I’ve always kind of thought I might like to try it and I actually talked about it some-but, when it came right down to it; I chickened out.
There was also the cheap [...]

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Cowering from the Sun

by Wayne Mumford February 25, 2010

We have had a run of “good” weather, we got to see the sun for a couple days without arctic temperatures and we seem to be moving into the early spring mode of a weather change every five minutes or so and temperatures creeping into the mid 40’s and even low 50’s. It has been [...]

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Nasty looking scud pattern

by Wayne Mumford February 21, 2010

Via Cp’s fly fishing and fly tying.
The scud is one of those all around utilitarian patterns, one that can work in a lot of different places, could look like a couple different aquatic critters and isn’t necessarily for trout only. Scud patterns are hot items on a lot Montana waters including the Bighorn river and [...]

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Move it on over

by Wayne Mumford February 19, 2010
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Alrighty then! We made it through the site move relatively unscathed. One site is broken, can’t seem to find the css file that pretty much holds the whole thing together but other than that things are not looking to badly. How the css got lost is quite beyond me considering the total byte load that [...]

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Website move is on…

by Wayne Mumford February 18, 2010

What’s the old line, “will you still love me tomorrow”?
Email is down, comments nixed, I have to work early in the morning so drinking is out of the question.
I guess there is a certain “lightness of being” at this point.

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