I never had a problem with the Dallas Cowboy’s until someone started calling them “America’s Team,” then I started to dislike them. While loyal to their cheerleaders, it wasn’t enough to remain impartial. Now we get “America’s Fish” the Largemouth Bass. I always thought the largemouth was an entertaining and noble fish, now I’m going to [...]

We’ve come full circle now, and anglers around Melbourne are incensed that trout are about to be purged from Australian waters. The popular game fish has been declared an alien species and put on a hit-list for eradication in a move that has outraged anglers. Trout would be culled from major Victorian rivers such as [...]

The grocery clerk was ill prepared for Singlebarbed repartee, he’d asked whether I wanted “paper or plastic,” and I’d responded, “ choose between a Pterodactyl or a pine tree? You pick, let the guilt be on your conscience.. ” From now on I’ll be much gentler, he still percolates his coffee, mine has the bark on.. I’ll decimate Pine trees [...]

Reclamation of natural streams within the confines of Seattle has been an ongoing project for over a decade, results have been released in a report outlining many of the ills, successes, and cost of the effort. Entitled “State of the Waters 2007,” the report outlines what you may suspect; treatment of the streams and banks [...]

I had no idea I was in such distinguished company, the question is, which is the half that swears like a sailor? “A U.S. survey of licensed hunters and anglers last year, commissioned by the National Wildlife Federation, found half of those polled identified themselves as evangelical Christians.” All the fishermen I know are liars, [...]

The statistics are plain, 100 million blogs exist on the Internet with nearly 100,000 created daily, of those 95 million are read by the author and his mom. I figured that would dominate the gift giving this year, as I’d receive 40 copies of Strunk & White’s “Elements of Style.” Lord knows I’ve earned it, [...]

I’m mortal, guilt got the better of me and I spent the better part of the weekend baking for neighbors and well wishers. Certain occasions require even the staunchest fisherman to succumb, I figured additional “brownie points” could be banked for later. For the 60% of you that have to travel in the next couple [...]

I always had a fantasy about a log cabin with a pristine trout stream chaser, I modified that only slightly in the last decade, adding massive Internet pipe to the mix. Outside of the money part – which still eludes me, the technology will be available next year. Toshiba will be marketing the “mini nuclear [...]

I lack the refinement to get sentimental over rod materials, mostly because I went from a steel Ace Hardware rod, straight to Fiberglas. Gentlemen of leisure owned bamboo, but only the Ladies lived in my neighborhood. If you’ve gambled away the ancestral castle and suffer further indignity by being banished to the garage, we may [...]

It’s been suggested that being on our gift list is a bad thing. We needed to go stealthy with this year’s yuletide offerings as pals killed the lights when we knocked on the door. They weren’t expecting us to go “green” with our Christmas cards. Seems that environmental is mainstream now, but we needed to [...]