“Bait and Switch” describes most restaurant menus I’ve ever seen. Crisp green lettuce, ruby red tomatoes, white onions, crisp pickles – then the order lands with a leaden thump, and the sodden mass of ”cow-like substance” winks back at you… I always assumed that’s why they took the menus away when they took your order, so [...]

I’m completely jealous, first bass fishing, now even sailfish angling has big money contests – replete with bikini clad babes, corpulent sponsors, grandiose prizes, free champagne, and opulent spreads of free food. So why did trout fishing get shut out of the cash bonanza? The knee jerk response: “trout fishing is the quiet sport practiced [...]

None of the past offenses are mentioned so I can’t determine whether this fits the traditional pattern of self destructive behavior. “I used to make cane and graphite fishing rods, and tie flies as a hobby when I was on the street,” said Jeremy Loyd, an Arrowhead prison inmate. “I approached Dave Block (a Correctional [...]

Like it or no it’s an election year and the current regime feels obligated to safeguard the economy until December, so’s they can blame whatever party takes power shortly thereafter. It’s a time-honored tradition, and with $600 bucks hurtling your way – coupled with your patriotic duty to blow it in an orgy of consumption, [...]

Nothing brings the problem home more than surveying the debris field that is the high water mark. The Little Stinking has been a torrent over the last couple of weeks, and I amble out there periodically to keep tabs on it. Usually I have a garbage sack in tow, as each new high in the [...]

I got my question answered and it wasn’t the screenwriter’s what done it, just a run-of-the-mill Legal type wrote the script. This time they might’ve driven a wedge in the farming community and garnered fishermen some unlikely allies, something they’ll soon regret. The “Water Wars” continue unabated, and last weeks suit of the State of [...]

I’m without a viable fishery, and that’s worthy of mourning. Salmon will be closed soon due to the demise of the Chinook run, likely prompting Fish and Game to close everything as most folks can’t distinguish between salmon species… I haven’t heard the outcome of today’s meeting to close the steelhead fishery for 60 days, and the Little Stinking  is [...]

I see this as a complete vindication for Tom Chandler and the Trout Underground. I’ve teased him unmercifully about “scantily clad strumpet” posts being his undoing, he counters with the “… new advertising paradigm you (expletive) Meathead…” I’m not surprised, he’s a talented writer known for elegant prose and sloppy hot dogs, I’m merely the [...]

My gal was out of the house this weekend so I made melancholy until her car left the driveway. Seizing the opportunity of her absence is important, if she knew what I was up to she’d swivel her head 360 degrees and chase my ass with a butcher knife. The trick is in hiding your [...]

I don’t know why I expected anything different, I wrote enough articles on the decline in “genetic diversity” to know better. It’s part and parcel of the “WalMart” phenomenon, small Mom and Pop business’s forced out of existence by sinister and cavernous chain stores. It began innocent enough, I’m low on the special hooks used for [...]