I can’t decide whether it’s chumming or littering, I guess I’ll leave it up to you.
“Weed’Ez” is artificial weed cover for fishermen. Plunk it into the water, and create your own navigational hazard. For merely $19.99 you can foul the propellers of your fellow fishermen, transport unwanted parasites to pristine waterways, and then get […]

Yes, it’s a hauntingly beautiful song that does Ray Charles homage, but I was thinking more the drought angle, if you think the Georgia-Florida-Alabama spat over water was interesting, California may eclipse it fairly quickly.
For the last month we’ve watched thousands of Southern California mansions vanish in a puff of smoke; these are the same […]

A lethal combination of work related interruptions and procrastination strained my credibility, and I was making good on promises this weekend by cranking some flies for past favors. On rare occasion a tier has no idea what his pals use, nor what they like, and has free license to tie an assortment that he knows are […]

I love genius when I see it, and as I see so little in my work I have to live vicariously through others. This time it’s the Daytripper blog as he surfaces the obligatory Christmas list to friends and family - not really a list, but it’s the one thing he could really use …you […]

I was listening to some financial pundits argue about the decline of the dollar, how speculation in oil prices was going to drive the price of oil past the $100 dollar mark, and how the subprime mortgage mess was going to take us all into the poor house.
Of interest to me was how the pump […]

Sometimes I think Thanksgiving should be expressed in military terms, where “Thanksgiving+2″ denotes the original dinner plus two nights of leftovers.  No one ever complains about leftover pie, but ask the gathering who wants to take some turkey home, and suddenly you’re talking to a bunch of kids standing around a broken window.
As I was […]

Golfers and Fisherman have a special Hell reserved; fishermen will burn everlasting because we took the worst the Devil offered and still enjoyed ourselves.  When Old Beelzebub froze us, we went ice fishing, when burnt - we slathered on sun block, and carried twice our beer ration - what’s coming we earned, as Lucifer […]

The Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation Act included the creation of a Federal Registry of Salt Water Anglers, with nine states having to sell salt water fishing licenses for the first time.
Specifically, MSA §401(g) mandates the Secretary to implement a federal requirement for anglers and for-hire vessels to register, and to provide identification and contact information, […]

Psychologists and I have an uneasy truce; they insist I’m unbalanced, I mention they’re on the third wife and none of their kids are speaking to them, neither of us wins, and both sides retire undeterred.
The rest of you don’t get off so easily, “angling psychology” is big business now, and the competitive fisherman […]

I’m guessing TC’s maimed finger has made him vindictive, it’s the only reason SingleBarbed is hosting the Maybelline fingernail polish ads all week.
I don’t think it’s a commentary of the kind and type of blog denizen we’re attracting, but if the population is now skewed to mostly women, I have little issue.
If the Trout Underground […]