After 89 years, venerable outdoors company Eddie Bauer is latest victim to the economic downturn.

There’s nothing quite like an epic outage of materials on the eve of a trip – where your own shortcomings cause you to lack whatever was required to catch fish… I’ve been fishing rather than shopping – temporarily abandoning the quest for more materials in lieu of using some in anger. Running out of Pink [...]

The only possible reaction is to sag back in your chair dumbfounded. The “Pure Salmon Campaign” is a coalition of salmon farmers that have banded together to accuse the world’s largest salmon farmer, Marine Harvest, of being an uncaring eco-brute… Most of the really newsworthy sea-lice infestations, mass escapees, and the seven employee deaths, have [...]

Them prospective advertisers can breath easy knowing Singlebarbed has sold his immortal soul (again) and embraced the “Now.” It’s been a steady diet of supermodel’s, tea socials, and autograph hounds – now that we’re gracing the cover of “Foreclosed Real Estate Weekly” – expect us to trade greasy ball caps for Armani, baby. I’m expecting [...]

It’s due to the unnatural preoccupation with foodstuffs – create a fly and it almost always has a food name. The debris field from the vise suggests I’m up to no good – with an equal mixture of Orange Carrot flies and Pink Grapefruit. … it’s California, we’re not allowed to subvert our youth with [...]

Studying the diversity of New Zealand’s freshwater fisheries for the last 30 years suggests even the exotic locales are struggling mightily. Overall, at a national scale, the health of fish communities declined between 1970 and 2007, especially over the last decade (2000 to 2007). The biggest decreases in the health of fish communities were in [...]

Every guy loves armaments – it’s just some have bigger ambitions than others… I know better, were I to find a discarded pineapple hand grenade, bazooka, or discarded Sherman tank – It’d be denied a place of prominence in my living room – so I’d leave it alone, but only after attempting to “dry fire” [...]

The only thing we can agree on is no one is speaking with certainty. In simplistic terms the entire financial debacle was the “deleveraging” of the financial systems mix of  assets and liabilities from nearly 30-1, to the government recommended model of 10-1. Economists suggest that until the consumer does likewise, paying off about 30% of [...]

My reports of the Shad invasion were too much for Igneous Rock (Older Bro) – he responded in characteristic fashion, armed to the teeth with Orange anti-Shad Phaser, Foreign Legion neckwear and big grin as he reached into my fly box for the fourth or fifth helping… It’s not so much that the Barton menfolk [...]

An 11 minute tour of the restoration efforts for the urban Coho salmon of Marin County. Technorati Tags: coho salmon, lagunitas creek, russian river, restoration