The Drake has uncovered a link between one of the Madoff sons and the investment group that recently purchased Abel reels. If the “Madoff” name is familiar it’s due to Bernie Madoff slurping 50 Billion dollars in what’s considered to be the largest Ponzi scheme ever uncovered. Most of the details of the Madoff scam [...]

Now that the screaming has died down, Mom’s in the bedroom sobbing and the “little criminal” has been banished to his room for life, you still have to dispose of the half ounce of dope Ma found in his underwear drawer. One option is to flush it quickly, but the other is to toss it [...]

It’s just another Brownliner saga where fellows turn up their nose and giggle about who’s got what on their waders – and how they wouldn’t be caught dead in the company of me or Roughfisher … We get you don’t want us dating your sister, and are resigned to our fate, we were  just attempting to [...]

Scientists are theorizing they can remap a salmon to a different home based on altering a magnetic signature. The theory is hypothetical yet – but it’s only a matter of time before Donny Beaver pays for monstrous salmon runs on some lease-optioned marginal creek.

Head Cement is rebottled vinyl cement or lacquer, rather than pay top dollar for a common household item, buy a quart of fine grade lacquer and decant your own bottles.

Mother Nature just doesn’t color critters that way. Natural feathers and fibers might have a range of three or four shades from tip to arse, some strident color down the center as in furnace or badger, but the complete color wheel within a six inch length – is an exclusive property of synthetics. As in [...]

Rather than pay for enforced idleness, why not bailout the West Coast commercial salmon fishery with a couple natural harbors and leftover Iraqi ordinance? These lads would be the poster child for self sufficiency.

Take a proud and noble prey and reduce it to a “turd” of shapeless fish flesh? The Wunder Boner is the greatest argument for catch and release ever devised… Not even McDonalds has the nerve to display how a Fillet of Fish sandwich is made – with good reason, it’s liable to be as photogenic [...]

OptiFade was one of the best purchases I’ve ever made, and the discovery that dipping the gear in the Little Stinking’s effluent adds a watery sheen – has made it an integral part of my fly fishing arsenal. OptiFade is a new optical pattern camouflage developed by the Gore-Tex folks, the picture at left shows what deer [...]

Tom Chandler published a short piece on the struggles of some of our older, venerable rod companies, how the downturn in the economy was forcing layoffs and depressing sales. Tom asked for comments.   Dear Rod Company Executive, Recently I’ve learned of the downturn in the economy and the Hard Times that will surely follow. [...]