The mailman is starting to back away so I should cool my ardor a bit. Little padded envelopes keep showing up at my doorstep from Bernice, Julie, Deborah, Nancy, and Janice – and while I was hoping he’d think I was part of a Columbian cartel – the gals keep perfuming the packages. One look [...]

Price per pound is one of those fishing metrics we hope we’ll never have to calculate. Apparently hunters have the same issue, and I might have stumbled on a dark secret best left unanswered.

Caught fishing with 500 in possession is a bit much, especially when they’re your neighbors lacy undergarments. Consider catch and release, you’ll evade discovery longer.

The elusive ultra chenille has been found in the wild, 2000 yard cones for $90 or 50g skeins for $5. Dirt cheap when compared to the prices charged by your fly shop, and slightly smaller diameter, allowing you to use it on trout hook sizes. Our War of Six Dollar Items continues.

Fishing the brown water has always had a “Budweiser” mystique about it; the luxury of knowing you’re never going to meet someone, therefore bathing is optional, coupled with the social stigma – no clique, no secret handshakes, and the knowledge that Fly Fisherman magazine will never reveal your secret spot. Now Abel reels has ruined [...]

Once again I’m without Internet access at my home and unable to post or check email. It’s one of those special moments for a computer geek – calling Technical Support and listening to some gum-chewing SOB with skills much less than your own… “Yes, Bob – it was working this morning, and then the light [...]

They’ve been warning us for years of the perils of french fries, yet suddenly fish scientists discover feeding penned fish vegetable oil increases the amount of fish protein created? Protein, hell – that’s just flab. Next time my girlfriend mentions my ever-expanding waistline she’s likely to get an earful of pure science.

Roughfisher and I have been jawing over the use of spey casts and switch rods for chasing prey through the dirty water, and both of us have decided to give it a shot. That’s the easy part, now it’s gear evaluation and assimilation, and the begging that goes with the budget that has significant other’s [...]

It may be the ultimate confirmation of successful imitation, or it could be a greedy, fat, fish thinking his cup runeth over – at least until I drove the hook through his upper lip. I just hope that smallmouth doesn’t get too much bigger as this one is nursing a grudge.

I buy most of my metal beads from “beading” stores, only because I’m a cheap SOB and don’t care to add another dime to a tree branch. Beading stores have hundreds of styles and shapes never seen in fly shops, not to mention they’re about a fifth the price of traditional retail.