I’ve seen a lot of “Inner Sanctums” - many complete with sepulchral organ music and a bell-ringer named Igor. All of them were tucked in cubby holes, garages, and dimly lit alcoves, away from visitors, heat, and the refrigerator.
Most earned it - mountains of partially decayed animal parts, the constant hum of NFL action coming [...]

The “Little Stinking” in it’s August benevolence, quiet, peaceful, scenic, and odiferous.

The “Big Muddy” from the same vantage point, 6″ of rain later. The color is damn near the same, so I’ll be fishing it by lunch today - via jetboat..
As both photos were taken from the same spot, it looks like [...]

I’m still surveying the landscape changes from yesterday’s storm. I had the day off and a ringside seat to the festivities. I’m minus two fences, lost power for 14 hours, and received 3 new garbage cans from the Wind God, so I may have broken even.
Most of yesterday we received about 0.25 to 0.3 [...]

Recent statistics on outdoors usage suggests the non lethal forms of adventure are on the rise; bird watching, kayaking, etc. Little surprise that some enterprising government is quick to cash in on the phenomenon, I just figured we’d be the first to tax the outdoorsmen into oblivion.
Governments have never been shy about separating you from [...]

Just a gentle reminder to review your angling regulations, as assumption can get you sidewise with the authorities. It’s customary for January 1st to be the introduction of new angling regulations, and many states have made changes that are small, but noteworthy.
In California, new “punchcard” rules are in affect that require anglers to report [...]

It’s editorial prerogative to have “moments” - a fit of pique that prompts you to hurl a magazine across the room,  vowing never to buy another. It wasn’t the magazines fault, it was the vendor advertisement that was the source of my ire.
Two fellows in a drift boat with the appropriate wading ensemble:
WHAT YOU [...]

For them as resolved to do more fishing in 2008, you were slow getting out of the sack and I beat you to it. You missed nothing, although it was reminiscent of a scene from “I am Legend.”
Thick layer of frost on the ground at 0600, colder than blazes (for California) and I had to [...]

It’s officially an election year, and we’re about to be courted by all the candidates and their apparatchik. Each campaign has a smartly dressed fellow with a overly stuffed briefcase methodically checking off the the important voting blocks each candidate has to acknowledge.
We’ve seen it in prior elections; a baseball cap doffed in Iowa, a [...]