Visiting my buddy the other day and chattering away merrily is the TV, featuring Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Normally I can ignore the background hubbub, but this movie features an enormous sentient Tootsie Roll, that emerges from Space, threatens the Earth, and is likely to wrinkle Capt. Kirk’s uniform, badly.
The premise is that the [...]

Okay, I get it. To market fly fishing tackle is to “suspend disbelief” like at the theatre. The lads at Orvis have debuted their “Zero G” line of fly rods, and their marketing department took the gentlemanly path through college - as Sociology or Psych majors…
Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn’t the force [...]

I was pondering the issue of fishing ethics and managed to stumble on the PETA site for angling. Moderates have been out of fashion for a number of years, while  fanaticism is on the ascendancy…
“Yet it’s a fact that all fish flesh today is contaminated with heavy metals and other toxins. In fact, fish flesh is [...]

Guilty. After whistling softly at some photos of the fair sex on a vendor’s site, I ran across a link to these hotties, ”across the pond.”
Now I have never been shy, but the idea of engaging the Duchess of Winterbotham in an in-stream singles scene was a tad chilling.
“So, Madam, do you go barbless on the [...]

The story is that this inventive fellow took his family fishing and was teased unmercifully at his ineptitude. You be the judge of the result…
For the “bobber-cator” crowd, this little device is indispensable, no more long casts with waterlogged glo-bug yarn and multiple split shot, the Vilco SR ProwlerCat is for you!
In the event of [...]