Functional Art? Fishing is a Source.
Functional art refers to aesthetic objects that serve utilitarian purposes. I'd say that much having to do with fishing qualifies as such. And what's interesting is how functional art can be the subject of graphic art and fine art!
Some examples
Fly Fishing Reel and Streamers
Fly Tying Tools and Materials.
Rainbow Trout Fly Rod, Reel and the Dry Fly that Caught It.
Streamers
Weather-worn Rods and Reels
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One could easily become hooked on this stuff.
Andy Warhol would be proud :
Petey, you have crossed the line. A Campbell's Tomato Soup Can, compared to the classic fishing art!!!!! You have completely lost it. I'm close to pulling your Roo license.
Beautiful Mac, just beautiful.
Someone taught me how to fly-fish, to swoop the line into a figure 8 back and forth and eventually lay the line on the water. I never caught a fish with it - always preferred still-fishing, sometimes casting with plugs or spoons for bass and a little less enthusiastic about trolling for muskies but always got my catch. Still-fishing was the most relaxing of all - a needed rest from the real world. However, I always considered tying flies to be an art but never tried it.
Your photos tell a great story A.Mac, and conjure restful thoughts.
Over the years I have learned to make my own rods and tie my own flies. While they are very time consuming their are very relaxing hobbies although neither are cheap endeavors. Seeing your photos of them displayed that way brings a new beauty to them. Great work AMac. You never let us down.
Kavika ,
Kiss my can ...
That does it. I'm revoking your Roo license, and issuing you a Quakaa license.
You may be banned to Rottnest Island, West Australia.
You can't keep me on your stinkin' island :
LOL, yes I can Petey. That's the only place in the world that Quakaa's live.
BTW, I love that movie.
Fly fishing is Zen! The process of casting and stripping in the line, anticipating a strike, lifting the rod in one motion to set the hook and playing the fish "off-the-reel" rather than winding in the fish -- I defy anyone in that scenario to experience a single, unwanted intrusive thought through the ritual.
And roll casting when there is just too much overhead cover and dropping the fly like a snowflake 25 feet across a stream, that just under an overhanging tree branch and waiting for the brook trout you didn't see but that you just knew had to be there that is to be where God lives, and, if you are fortunate, also to hold for a moment in your hand, one of His most beautiful creations (maybe take its picture) and then gently put him back into his gin-clear habitat.
Hey my friends let's go fishing.
A Brookie, very nice Mac...and he lives to fight another day. Perfect.
Very nice, AMac.
But why tie a fly when you can zip it or button it?
Another would be - Fabric.
Thanks Chloe,
A fair question; I tie rather than zip or button to avoid having the hook
Prick my finger.
I apologize in advance for that.
On a serious note, I never realized how pretty those [flies] were. I love all of your creative Art articles displaying different approaches using different mediums [and your educational tidbits are also a nice addition].
Beautiful
Especially the pictures of the lures!!
Thanks for sharing
Thanks RIO,
My fingers are getting old along with the rest of me and I can't tie the flies aesthetically any more, but I find the the "sloppy" flies look buggier than the artistic numbers and I swear the fish seem to prefer them!
The elements that are considered when tying any fly are
Color
Profile
Size
Action (or lack of) when fishing them, and
Depth at which the are fished
They look great to me and I bet the fish find them irresistible
Have a good day
That little guy hammered that fly, eh?
I knew a couple of guys who used to take a week and go to Hickory Run State Park early in Pas trout season. One time I got the invite too. One day they came back after a pre sunrise operation, they were muddy from head to toe. The obvious question was, "Did you two fall in? They replied in unison, The native pools we fish require stealth. ThenI notice the mud smeared like face paint. They would crawl up to the pools and flip a small Ugly Stick, with the tiniest spinner they had, in a roll cast motion into the pool. It was a case of beer for the high hook. Then they refused a coffee and went straight for what they called Maxwell House Lite with breakfast. Sure sounded Zen to me.
A brook trout will hit any fly presented to it provided you don't get close enough to it to present it.