It’s not fly fishing but the message is timeless, this is what Ma meant when she said, ” your eyes are bigger than your stomach.”
Sturgeon versus kayak, and it looks like there’s a disagreement on “who sits where.” One of the fellows from work sent this to me, the angler survived - this picture was snapped from […]

While you’re sitting in the safety of your parlor attempting to decide which of them Cuban’s goes best with an antique scotch - one of the Brethren is in peril.
I never met the fellow, the fact that he’s acquired “flesh eating disease” from a fish bite is all the pedigree I require.  He’s likely […]

I’d just finished another hallway conversation wherein I defended myself, the rest of you louts, and our beloved pastime. I was fumbling for the file to notch my “gunbutt” with another eco-radical kill, when I was brought up short…
It was innocent piece, really - but it cited a statistic that fascinated me:
Each year, more […]

The eBay delivery arrived this morning, and the 10′ Orvis T3 was unlimbered in an orgy of torn paper and impatient swearing. Per the prior post - I purchased a “cosmetic second” rod from Redwoodloft, who’s busy pumping Orvis clothing and tackle onto eBay.
Outside of the vendor selling the item, I’ve always assumed cosmetic seconds […]

Got a chance to survey my new estates - and while the Singlebarbed Legal Office is researching maritime salvage laws, we’re planning our embassy and accompanying strip mall.
What happens when you boost the creek flow one hundred fold? Gravel beds and rock becomes grains of sand and move many miles - hopefully you’re not in […]

Small storage is a premium for fly fishermen, what with all the little things we carry and use, and for fly tiers it’s much worse as we accumulate dander almost as quickly as we draw moths.
Periodically I get the need for more and wander around Google attempting to find what other crafts are using. We […]

“Think Outside the Box” - we understand the concept easy enough, but only a select view are able to to put the theory to practice. The best example I’ve seen to date is from Michael LeBlanc, who won the Gold Medal in the 2006 World Salmon Fly Tying Championship of the Quebec Federation of […]

You cut most of your science classes in high school, I’m just paying you back for them misdeeds.
It’ll be plenty expensive, you’ll insist you need them, and when you find out what it’s made from - you’ll rethink the whole “Brownline” genre.
Scientists have developed a self sealing rubber that can be torn, severed and […]

It sure looks like migratory fish are the new growth industry for the legal profession, another lawsuit filed here in California seeks the elimination of two aging dams on the Yuba River.
The Daguerre Point (1906) and Englebright (1941) dams just upstream of Marysville, they no longer produce power, water, or serve as a flood barrier […]

Think again.
This isn’t one of those silly hijackers requiring you to dance around with a bottle of 409 hoping the neighbors don’t notice, this sure ain’t something you can point a finger at and bemoan it’s presence - no, this is something much better, with big sharp teeth that abducts terriers and small children.
“Frankenfish”, aka, […]