Archive for July, 2009

A long and fishless summer headed my way »

It must be why them backwoods fellows always get tagged with toothless and inbred, their lack of interest in Physics is what separates them from their urban kinfolk. Despite ample deer tilting with MAC trucks, locals don’t gather them up and fling them off the Interstate to see whether they splat or splash – while their [...]

Brutus earns his keep »

He can’t talk so he wouldn’t rat you out if you’d been skunked. Just smooth out the teeth marks, dry him off, and throw him a Milkbone… I’ve got to get me one of these – sure he’d be a liability, but any flea bit chow hound can do sit and roll over… Technorati Tags: [...]

It might teach respect, but only if he’s the bait »

Tony Dungy laments he never went fishing with Michael Vick? Jesu Christo, if the lad is going to toe a bleeding hound into the brush, what good could possibly come from taking Michael Vick fishing? Tony: Mike, you insert the needle into the earthworms and blow enough air to make ‘em float just off the [...]

The hoary spectre of precise imitation rattles its chains »

I’ll unleash a storm of precise imitation, a half dozen tell-all manuscripts, and turn both coasts of fly fishermen on their collective ear… … and I’ve always wanted to do that, just once … Having fished for American Shad for many years I’d always subscribed to the “attractor” theory; they smack flies out of spite/anger/curiosity [...]

Fish like you’ve got a pair »

In a typical shad season I’ll plow through 10 feet of bead chain easy. Handing out handfuls of whatever works combined with those buried into the bottom consumes plenty. It’s the weighting standard for most shad flies because it flips the hook over giving a shot at the upper jaw, traditional hook-ups tear through the [...]

My public school system only awarded degrees in Modern Chemistry, now the kids get Angling? »

The credential is slowly winkling it’s way into our sport, and I have mixed emotions about the legitimacy that implies.. It was the same when I worked for a large brokerage house (now deceased); I asked the traders what it took to be a stock broker and was surprised how little training was required, “Basically, [...]

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