Few items are as indispensable to fishermen as duct tape, but it too may have succumbed to advanced helical technology and high modulus with the debut of Rescue Tape. • Incredible 700 PSI Tensile Strength! • Insulates 8,000 Volts per layer! • Withstands 500° F Degrees of heat! • Remains flexible to -85° F! (-60° [...]

I hadn’t thought about it much until I started catching Smallmouth bass with regularity. Trout and saltwater fish shared a similar resigned expression when handled; dull and lifeless – as if garnished with lemon was better than cavorting with mayflies or seaweed. Smallmouth were different, they’d fix you with a malevolent gaze, watching every move [...]

Us semi-pro eBay reel collectors are occasional victims of unchecked avarice – greed mostly. The pictures omit the missing screw, the bent rim, and the seller that’s hoping you won’t notice an unsightly wobble or loose spool. That’s because we’ve got visions of Sugarplums dancing – the missing 3 1/4″ Hardy Princess Multiplier that we’ve [...]

When the only thing we’d mastered was the “tailing loop” and overhand knots added via false cast -  long before we knew what Caddis were, or achieved something the books called “drag free” – we encountered the One Fly… We understood dry flies because strikes were visual and obvious; feeding fish made dimples, and the stalk [...]

Doctor Mom would’ve given me a good scolding, the Evil Eye, and an increased ration of Chicken soup.  A significant relapse this weekend suggested I’d returned to work much too early, and after feverishly climbing back into bed Saturday, I was just as feverishly climbing out of bed Sunday morning. For the next couple of months [...]

Unfortunately the prognosis is full recovery. Brain function is currently limited to the non-artistic centers of the right lobe, while the playful and color conscious left hemisphere is still plugged with unmentionables. The desire to torment readers has resurfaced – which is a good sign, but I’m still leaving the bulk of my skills in [...]

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Fish Can’t Read is the latest in a burgeoning trend of online fly fishing magazines promising to be less trite than traditional angling fare. No expense was spared in sweeping together an eclectic mix of caustic, opinionated burnouts – fresh-faced youth, all buttressed by vast expanses of partially clad salmonids; swathed in the warm colors [...]

Should make some feel less conspicuous, although ordering one in a logger bar – you hope your voice doesn’t break mid sentence…   Its got a rarified pedigree, being made from glacier ice that crumbles off the continental shelf due to climate change, which makes the bottle bobbing in your wake testament to your domination [...]

The real piece of good fortune was coming down with the flu on the eve of the angling departure, rather than during – as none of my pals would have noticed anything amiss. Maybe they’d scratch their chin when I failed to acknowledge dinner, or didn’t protest when they divided up my dry flies among [...]