Ok, so vitamins are good for you, and fish oil is purported to be the best. If I release a half dozen fish on my last trip, will that heal the karma associated with grinding up one million menhaden to soothe my colon?
I’m all for the “modern american diet” featuring a plethora of pills I take [...]

I don’t think I can complain about my girl’s perm’s anymore without blushing. Sure, they are 12 times what my haircut costs, but if she got one every month, it would be less than equipping her with fly gear.
Assume I want to take the plunge and equip my “better half” with quality gear, yet not [...]

This has nothing to do about fishing, but with all the furor about astronauts and alcohol, whatever happened to the “Right Stuff?” You’ve either seen the movie or read the book – replete with hard drinking, slow talking fighter pilots nursing either a hangover or a cold one…
Gus Grissom may not have pooched it but [...]

You can all breath a big sigh of relief, we are not numbers junkies.
I was pressed into service by my girlfriend to find some odd vitamin, and wound up touring the Health section of assorted women’s magazines. They are number junkies, not us.
So I may remember how many fish I caught, they remember how much each fish [...]

I find it cheaper to buy bulk white/badger saddle and dye it into all the colors I need for trout, steelhead, and salmon flies. Commercial supermarket dyes like RIT work very well on the earth tones needed for trout, but for the vibrant colors for steelhead and salmon I prefer aniline dyes.
Aniline is called many [...]

You can forget about knots, mating habits of mayfies, ignore streamflows, weather, tides, and lunar phase, as every fishing trip will meet with “should have been here last week” success.
You are superstitious as hell, but that rabbit’s foot has finally been upstaged.
Imagine kissing your wife on the cheek with the exclamation, “I’ll be home at 6:00, make sure [...]

One fell swoop and the Department of Fish & Game will have to rethink both their  stocked trout program and trophy fisheries management. Harvard researchers have published a study that concludes that friends of the obese will likely become obese also.
Hatchery trout have tons of friends, and if the research is correct, all we need do is make 40% [...]

We have an uneasy peace at my workplace, with “Hatfield’s” the golfing contingent, the “McCoy’s” the fishing crowd. It’s a separate yet equal environment with no “Tweeners” – guys that like both.
I expected the golfing crowd to be sympathetic, as their sport involves running around the out-of-doors flailing ineffectually at a dimpled white ball, whose flight [...]

It may come as no surprise but the publishers at Intermedia Outdoors are Vegan,  meatless - it’s the only explanation. Every cover features a model that feels he must pose with a yard of large trout emanating from his crotch.
We’ve silently endured “The Pose” for years; heroic figure, semi-crouched in water, large fish gripped with both hands, fullsome white-toothed [...]

It’s not something I can conciously control, I like the places I find trout as much as I like catching them. Towering pines, bald eagles, both the sights and sounds of the woods are part and parcel of the entire experience.
No, I am not an eco-terrorist, but as I hike back to the car I see [...]