Jack Ohman's Blog tag:www.jackohman.com,2008:/blog/1 2008-07-27T08:21:59Z Movable Type 3.35 Angler Management tag:www.jackohman.com,2008:/blog//1.18 2008-07-27T08:09:37Z 2008-07-27T08:21:59Z Well, we should have the contract for Angler Management in hand any day now, so I will be plowing away on that for the next nine months. I am very excited to be given the opportunity by Jay Nichols and... Well, we should have the contract for Angler Management in hand any day now, so I will be plowing away on that for the next nine months. I am very excited to be given the opportunity by Jay Nichols and Stackpole to write a 60K word manuscript--my first full-length book. In addition, I am talking to Tribune Media Services about doing a syndicated fly fishing column, and I am hopeful they'll see the market for that. The publication date for An Inconvenient Trout is September 8, and Fly Fisherman magazine will run an excerpt in the September issue. Again, pre-ordering on Amazon is a good choice, and my son Eric and I will be putting up various merchandise relating to this project. Who doesn't enjoy a fly fishing t-shirt or mug? I know I do. I interviewed John Gierach, author of Trout Bum, a few weeks ago for The Oregonian--a fascinating guy who is very down-to-earth. John is someone who is a delightful conversational partner and I look forward to getting to know him better. I will be appearing at the Fly Fishing Show in Denver on September 14-16, so my handlers assert, and I will let you know more about that later as I get more information. Maybe they'll hand out free rods. I can always use another. Dale Forster, the president of the Deschutes Club, graciously hosted me, Oregonian columnist David Reinhard, and my friend Don Burdick at his cabin. The Deschutes Club is a fascinating resource and fishes very well due to the stewardship of the organization. I will write more about my trip shortly, but Fish Were Caught. Next week, I will fish Davis Lake in Central Oregon for largemouth bass--my boyhood species that I dearly miss. They tell me I need as eight weight, but we're gonna wing it with a six weight and hope for the best. It was the first time I bought poppers since the Carter Administration, but it looks like it will be fun. A Plea For Links tag:www.jackohman.com,2008:/blog//1.17 2008-04-07T04:14:15Z 2008-04-07T04:16:53Z Calling All Fly Fishing Bloggers... You link to me, and I'll link to you. Please practice safe linking. Thanks, and, yes, you are probably way better at actual fly fishing than I am.... Calling All Fly Fishing Bloggers... You link to me, and I'll link to you. Please practice safe linking. Thanks, and, yes, you are probably way better at actual fly fishing than I am. Fabulous Merchandise For Your Purchasing Pleasure tag:www.jackohman.com,2008:/blog//1.16 2008-04-07T03:56:43Z 2008-04-07T04:21:17Z In the next few weeks, watch this space for the entire Jack Ohman (me) line of vintage angler t-shirts. This shirts will be made of 100% material, will feature fly fishing themes not available on planets other than Earth, and... An Inconvenient Trout (Pub date: Christmas 2008), about which I have filled pages and pages of a black Moleskine notebook with almost incomprehensible drivel, microscopic sketches, and various non sequiturs sure to amuse. An Inconvenient Trout has been written, edited, drawn, and delivered to the tender mercies of Stackpole Publishing; I am quite certain this book will be the next Great American Fly Fishing humor book, on the order of the The Old Man and The Sea, if it were lightly amusing and had a lot of cartoons in it. Critics have called my forthcoming manuscript "highly finished," "obsessively drawn," and "mostly in grammatical English." ]]> March 16, 2008 tag:www.jackohman.com,2008:/blog//1.15 2008-03-16T22:52:14Z 2008-03-16T22:53:17Z ]]> March 4, 2008 tag:www.jackohman.com,2008:/blog//1.12 2008-03-16T00:11:51Z 2008-03-16T03:27:29Z ]]> An Inconvenient Trout Is Now Completed, Kinda... tag:www.jackohman.com,2008:/blog//1.10 2008-03-15T21:47:06Z 2008-03-16T03:34:16Z ...and we're resting our thumb. Stackpole will be publishing it for Christmas, 2008. You can just send cash, checks, or Bear Stearns promissory notes to Amazon.com and pre-order there. If you live in Portland, I suggest this because the fly... ...and we're resting our thumb. Stackpole will be publishing it for Christmas, 2008. You can just send cash, checks, or Bear Stearns promissory notes to Amazon.com and pre-order there. If you live in Portland, I suggest this because the fly fishing books sell out of Borders and the like immediately. The local Borders-type stores have no way of communicating, apparently, to their national buyers that some authors have...um...local connections. That's been my experience, historically. Anyway. I digress. Northwest fly shops have usually ordered enough to meet demand, but, again, I have no idea how this is going to all play out if we're sending all of our money to the Federal Reserve for Christmas. So, pre-ordering is a good idea if you want to get one for Uncle Bob. Your cartoonist will be heading to the Owyhee next month, with seven dozen black woolly buggers. He will attempt to avenge last season's breaking of his Winston six weight on a wing dam. I'm pretty sure a brown trout had something to do with it. They're sneaky. An Inconvenient Trout tag:www.jackohman.com,2007:/blog//1.9 2007-10-03T18:44:50Z 2008-03-16T17:13:37Z Well, at long last, there will be a sequel ( a companion volume volume sounds classier, so let's go with that) to Fear of Fly Fishing. I have just signed a contract with Jay Nichols of Headwaters Books, and the... Well, at long last, there will be a sequel ( a companion volume volume sounds classier, so let's go with that) to Fear of Fly Fishing. I have just signed a contract with Jay Nichols of Headwaters Books, and the new book will be published by Jay and Stackpole Books. I am thrilled to be working with Jay, who was, of late, the managing editor of Fly Fisherman magazine. John Randolph of Fly Fisherman, as well as Jay, have been enormously encouraging in my fly fishing humor career (mostly my fly fishing humor consists of me attempting to fly fish), and I am grateful to Jay for patiently recruiting me to write this new book. The delivery date for the manuscript will be March, 2008, with a fall 2008 publication date. I will keep you posted as to the progress on the book, but also look forward to any suggestions for subject matter than any of you have. I spent most of the summer fishing in order to get the creative river flowing ( poor me), and am always open to reader thoughts. Thanks again to Jay, and tight lines! Welcome! tag:www.jackohman.com,2007:/blog//1.11 2007-08-14T17:16:11Z 2008-03-16T17:13:37Z Welcome to Jack's News page... Welcome to Jack's News page Welcome... tag:www.jackohman.com,2007:/blog//1.2 2007-07-28T21:05:08Z 2008-03-16T17:13:37Z ...to my blog. The new site should be up and running shortly, so, until then, stay tuned.... ...to my blog. The new site should be up and running shortly, so, until then, stay tuned.