The Nature Conservancy purchased the 1440 acre Child’s Meadow parcel near the southern entrance of Lassen National Park. The Childs Meadow is an alpine meadow that forms part of the headwaters of Deer Creek, one of the few California streams that hosts both steelhead and spring salmon.
The property is located east of Hwy 89, just [...]

They’d better be really bright or that new rod is going to be sundered cleanly in your car door.
Singlebarbed is used to nano-technology, most of our fish defy measurement in integer numbers, so we’ve used nano-terminology to make them sound really big.
The rest of you had better crack the science books, as the next [...]

Still smarting from Upper Sacramento rejection, I sought solace in the Chocolate bosom of my Fortress of Solitude. No sooner do I step out of the car when the acrid odor of skunk hits me like an oily cloud. He couldn’t have been aiming at me, one whiff and he would’ve recognized a brownliner as blood kin.
Home. The Little [...]

Fisherman wants to be ground up and used for bait.

This may be a rare glimpse of the next legend in the sport. Poppa hands kid crappy rod and minnow, kid says, “Dad, I got one” - naturally he’s ignored. Poppa is expecting trash minnow, looks down to see a 20lb Musky caught by 3 year old on 6lb test. (MSN Video)
Dad gets seriously Owned!
Likely the [...]

Fly tiers use lots of copper wire in fly construction. Copper wire is used in the electronics industry at a fraction of the price. Action Electronics offers “Magnet Wire” in various gauges that are inexpensive and available in large quantities.

Cottonelle toilet paper is like sandpaper mixed with tabasco sauce - their marketing director is to be feared, as he cleverly disguises his product for the unwary male shopper, intent on bargains.

A robotic suit will allow caregivers and the elderly to regain lost youth, power assisted arms allows the user to feel only half the actual weight.

Us snow challenged Californians have little fear of Fall, the leaves change color and little else. The riot of color is always breathtaking and the fishing occasionally takes a back seat to the simple appreciation of the woods in full regalia.
I got spanked savagely this weekend, but wore a smile the whole time.
It was all there, [...]

There’s nothing like dining at the Chevron Mini Mart, it’s as recognizable a buffet any fast food restaurant, yet has a “three star” rating; one for restrooms, another for gas, and the last for the freeway onramp. Who are we to quibble, Daniel Boone?