I am the King of the “fishless” fishing trip, even as a raw youth I had the knack. It’s a title coveted, but not by many. While the bulk of the angling community has the good sense to go to work and be productive, I burn calories and daylight tromping through brush watching my breath [...]

There’s great potential in thin film solar fabric for fly fishermen as we’re always the last idiot to head for shade. Rather than sell the extra juice back to the Grid, it makes sense to start thinking about what gadget you want to power, as it’s your cranium that’s baking, it should be your [...]

One of those oddball factoids you stumble across quite by accident, “..why does aquatic insect activity peak at dawn and dusk?” I’ve heard many explanations, assuming the lower air temperatures played the largest role in mating behavior.
It appears that low light conditions actually allow the bugs to detect water better - so the egg [...]

I’ve been watching the gauge all week waiting for the worst of the water to pass, cabin fever got the better of common sense, so I hit the river armed with tackle, instead of a cup of coffee.
I had lots of experimental flies to test and was badly in need of exercise, a wintertime [...]

I like the idea, but it smacks of a “gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” ecological balance. It’s nice that these issues are slowly being acknowledged, but passing the burden to someone else isn’t deprivation, it’s just making the minimum payment on a credit card.
I’m not an ecology zealot, I still have to [...]

Teased unmercifully by an erstwhile pal? Sand kicked in your sandwich by an inebriated yet lucky in-law? Itching for a chance to get even? Just fade back out of eyesight and loose the “Osprey Kite” - guaranteed to put down every feeding fish within a city block.
Especially effective on those “obligatory” trips - where [...]

Fly fishermen are always preoccupied with bugs and hatches, alternately bemoaning the lack of - or the lateness of the bugs. An enterprising artist has taken that one better, incorporating time and insect obsession to yield art.
I can’t confirm whether he’s a fisherman or not, but the watch parts should make additional weight unnecessary.
I [...]

It was collateral damage, purely accidental, but he doomed us fly tiers to a bland palette of earth tones. The implement of destruction was the release of “Matching the Hatch” which debuted with little fanfare in 1962. Since then we’ve been limited to the colors of Mother Nature - not a bad thing, but it’s [...]

New information released today suggest efforts to revive the delta fisheries have largely failed. The Sacramento Bee reports that this years trawl by the Department of Fish and Game, shows record low numbers of smelt, American Shad, and Sacramento Splittail, with two others, delta smelt and striped bass at near record lows.

The article suggests that [...]

Singlebarbed has always led the charge on cutting edge technology, willing to suffer the slings and arrows of the path less traveled, allowing readers to giggle at my inevitable pratfall.
“My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots.“

That gives me 42 years to [...]