Emboldened by our shrinking numbers is my guess, I can’t figure it any other way, our mistake was assuming other people wouldn’t mind our archaic pastime, and that’s proving to be wrong. Me, I can understand, as I giggled at “glamper” jokes, belittled the “Vente Frappachino” and alienated all them swells at Aberchrombie and […]

Which side are you on? Native species and habitat restoration is a worthy cause, but will you deem it so when you’re raking the gravel where your lawn used to be?
Singlebarbed readers thrive on fear and pestilence, but this issue is so large it’s likely to have all of us switching allegiances. It’s a “plea […]

I’ve always viewed fly line purchases as a necessary evil. Choices are limited to color and taper, available from a handful of companies marketing small variances in a similar product.
Advertising distinguishes the vendors more than performance and whether it’s the Volkswagen or the Porsche chosen, performance gain is small compared to price increase.
I was introduced to […]

Beer prices are set to rise 10%, many factors are involved including increased prices for quality hops and other grains.

I think we’re outnumbered. I keep looking for guys that gnaw their own arm off while trapped in the wilderness with naught but a dull buck knife, and I’m coming up empty.
I find  a virtual cornucopia of Glam-per articles replete with stunning gear, stunning women, and equally stunning price tags. Are we simply the last […]

Like all middle-aged couch potatoes I yearn for lost youth and admire those that seek to regain it - from a safe distance of course…
I don’t swerve towards an old guy jogging on the side of the road, don’t belittle some poor housewife trudging smartly through the neighborhood intent on weight loss, if it […]

The Singlebarbed Legal department is keeping a close watch on the Georgia drought issue, in part because it’s likely to become a big issue for us fishermen, and part because they smell blood in the water.
Last week Georgia sued the Army Corp of Engineers to reduce the outflow of water from Lake Lanier, the […]

My raw unbridled envy with the electronics available to the bass boat crowd has me  attempting to reproduce that functionality for the “old school” fly fisherman.
My goal is unclear, something less than burdening myself so I sink like a stone with a misstep wading, and something more than licking my finger and holding it skyward.
How about […]

It sure won’t make the pages of a fishing publication, but I was feeling my oats - a couple days growth of beard, unshowered, standing in “pooty” water swinging a nymph past a waterlogged couch..
That ain’t hardcore - hardcore is tying a magnet to the end of the line and fishing for slag. As the […]

Water is a precious commodity out West, and will be even more so as the population increases. Water rights will be the source of much litigation, and westerners may have to come to grips with sagebrush as a front lawn - rather than water intensive grass.