More scouting on Sunday, also a lot more pillaging of produce. I’m trying to keep pace with the Fat of the Land boys, demonstrating that SaranWrap is for sissies – at least in two states.. I added another 25 lbs of Almonds to the drying rack, a couple of weeks in the garage and my [...]

Another angler testifies to a lifelong devotion to angling – by being ground into bait and dumped into his favorite river. It dwarfs our piddling devotion by a long shot – and begs the question, “which great angling venue would you want to be bait in?” (provided the missus allowed it)

Nebraska has published a 20 year plan for the recruitment and retention of their hunters and anglers – it’s likely to be all or in part by other states, as all 50 are struggling with diminished license revenue.

Fish and Fly is assisting the launch of www.speycast.co.uk, a web site dedicated solely to spey casting and instruction. Founder, Eoin Fairgrieve, World Team Speycasting Champion – and Loop tackle instructor, will add to the creative mix of video, online instruction, forums, and destination information – offered by the site. The site will be enhanced [...]

Yes, I’m still giggling over the “DIY” (do it yourself feature) of despair.com, source of all those spoofs of motivational posters that stare at us from waiting areas and conference rooms, the bane of corporate America.  Don’t let me have all the fun, if you can come up with something better (which shouldn’t be that hard), [...]

If the fishing is marginal, adapt to your surroundings and take part in Nature’s bounty. California almonds surrounded me this weekend, and the fish were disinterested so I helped myself to a couple sacks of nuts. Some may consider me the same as the fruit for being there in the first place, but a practised brownliner is able to adapt, evolve, and overcome. Besides, laying a sack of these on the kitchen counter scores a lot more points than dead fish.

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Makeup for men will be harder to swallow than pantyhose, as anglers have used them for years in icy waters. What’s really needed is a good mixture of DEET and sunscreen to get the mainstream fishermen to embrace this metrosexual trend. It may be unsettling for them as live in the “red” states, but so long as there’s ample swearing and the addition of a second vanity in the master bedroom, we should be able to absorb the trend with little sacrifice. As long as we don’t have to wear deoderant, we’re comfortable with our diminished masculinity.

A split bamboo rod for less than the cost of a graphite? One of those odd finds that you stumble on quite by accident, a handsome looking rod featured in an photo, and curiosity leads you to look up the maker. Wild Creek Rods, of Australian origin and a small entrepreneur, but the rods are [...]

Entomophagy is the practice of eating bugs, lots of them. It’s the lastest trend in low fat, high protein dining. For fishermen it may shed some light on what Trout prefer to eat, then again, it may be an excuse for another fringe religion that assumes a space ship is hidden behind a comet.