You’ve seen them, you may even have one or two under your roof. The infirm angler who is content to sit by the fire,  whose memory is spurred by your precious single malt, and is content to scratch himself publicly.
I was heartened to find a bastion of the angling community offering to take them off […]

I have often wondered whether greasy duck’s arse feathers weren’t akin to bottled water… give it a fancy french name like Cul Du Canard, and sell it to the pretentious rubes that lick the pages of anything Ziff Davis.
Heresy? Yep. But having been exposed to duck behavior for the better part of 40 years, something […]

In addition to the price of gasoline going up, fly tyers can expect some increase in the cost of chicken feathers soon. Ethanol production has boosted the price of corn measurably (chicken feed), and now the Intel Corporation has designs on your soft hackles.
Plastics research suggests that waste feathers (hen necks, marabou, etc) can also […]

Granted that I only completed college, but I have seen every Star Trek episode twice, I know physics.
Sage Rod Company has introduced the “Z Plane” series of graphite rods, perusing their site some thoughts came unbidden; the X axis is horizontal, the Y axis is vertical, therefore the Z axis has to be the wobble induced […]

For them as dont know, the stalwart lads participating in the 27th Annual Fly Fishing World Championships finished sixth overall. This was a pleasant uptick from years past, with teams from 22 countries participating.
It’s obvious what’s needed, armed with all that tackle and verve,  conspicuously absent was the lack of any nicknames for our guys. This […]