Mustad has discontinued production of their classic hook linem which includes: 94840 (std. dry fly) , 94845 (Barbless Dry) 3906B (std. nymph 1X long), 9671 (2x long), 9672 (3X long), 79580 (4x Long), 3665A (6X long), 3399A (std wet). Those of you still enamored of the old classics should be stocking up fevorishly.

The Sacramento Bee reports the National Marine Fisheries Service has compiled a draft “biological opinion” that may compel the California Department of Water Resources and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to change reservoir operations, improve river habitat and divert less water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The 2004 version had a similar finding and was altered [...]

I’ve often heard the lament associated with the decline of the world’s rain forest, how the loss of countless unknown species of flora and fauna may be of enormous impact  – as some rare tree frog or rain forest lily may hold the cure for cancer. It’s very possible, but even proof of the poor [...]

Leave it to the car crazy California crowd to usher in Jingle Mail and the lifestyle of the modern American nomad. The SUV Tent is the latest craze of the financially strapped angler. Montana in summer and Florida for the winter, and the schools ain’t half bad..

Stream etiquette is the only topic capable of reducing fishermen to women, the same sordid tales of woe about the unthinking, unfeeling, heartless SOB what “low holed” them and didn’t even offer a towel. Brownliner’s don’t have a meltdown when approached mid-pool, we’re just grateful he relieved himself downstream of us.

Monday’s rain wasn’t welcome, I’d covered for the folks at work during the holidays and elected to take some time off after they returned to work with sugar-orgy hangovers. It’s a carefully planned strategy on my part, the combination of Christmas and New Year’s means everyone over-spends, over-drank, and over-ate, and the crowd filing through [...]

The only folks capable of making a distinction between taxes and fees are the fellows paying them. Politicians love to make use of fees when taxation is unpopular, and in 2009 we can expect many new wrinkles for fishermen. New York has effected a $10 Trout and Salmon stamp, over and above the fishing license fee – and most states will likely follow, siphoning off the new funds in their General Fund to pay for something quite different than either trout or salmon.

Fish vision is the subject of much science and conjecture, and is something most anglers never take into consideration. Their eyes are more primitive than ours and are adapted to take in a wider field of view. Exacting imitation of insects looks good to the angler, but do they look as good to the fish?

It’s the latest trend among those in power -  circumventing the normal political process with urgency replacing the painstaking scientific work, and when called to task for the crime,  blame the other fellow for not thinking for you. The financial crisis in Washington has emboldening every political hack with a year or less on his term [...]

My New Year’s resolution was to learn how to Spey cast. Sure, I’m carrying too many pounds of flab, and drink far too much, but this resolution has a better’n average chance of me following through. I thought it might be fun to return to those hideous days of clueless “Noob” – experiencing a mixture [...]