I see it as a sign of the times, anglers unhappy with managed impoundments whose proprietors are following Ronald McDonald’s nutritional guidelines. Perhaps it’s the effect of four beef patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-on-a-sesame-seed-bun slowing our desire to live reflexes just enough so only equally obese prey are vulnerable. It’s a pity that girls don’t appreciate “big fish” – as us [...]

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I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the Old Girl – but with visiting dignitaries from the Greater Bay Area, I was hoping she wouldn’t simply disgorge undergarments and turn the evening into a lingerie-fest. Being known as a Brownliner has its downside, typically it’s in the middle of the Pristine speech, where you’re [...]

I discovered the below list on a web page since forgotten. Makes you wonder about all those expensive Montana fly fishing seminars for women – and whether a citizen’s arrest isn’t in the offing…  In California it is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless your target is [...]

I can’t promise she’ll fish, but that last hurdle to sharing a trail with an unwashed lout has certainly been blown apart… Thank the Space Program – now that they’ve mastered the flexible “O” ring, they can turn their attention to miniaturized, dehydrated, pulverized, and pastes we can stuff into vests and enrich our streamside [...]

It’s the same thing I tell new employees, ” if I forget your name and call you ‘New Meat’ – don’t take it personal, I have a helluva time remembering names, but once I catch you filching my favorite donut I’ll remember your name … just not in a good way.” I use placeholder names [...]

I hit it Friday, I hit it Saturday, and it hit back Sunday, but we were able to piece together one able bodied angler from the pieces that weren’t swollen or stove-up. “Jim” was an off duty San Francisco police officer that made the mistake of parking next to me in the pre-dawn gloom. He [...]

I recently endured that ritual where big strapping outdoors types get bashful as schoolgirls, or drink themselves into a self righteous fury over lost opportunity. You call it a birthday. There’s only two kinds of birthdays; the ones that get you closer to drinking legal, and the other kind – which aren’t near as pleasant, [...]