Me, I can’t help it. Fly fishing is like the stock market and every channel has some nicely powdered fellow telling you what to buy. Most ignore the larger picture in favor of the populist message; get in now, you’re missing it.
Fishing has the same urgency for me, as I’m forced to eat a [...]

The scorn of the fly fishing elite we could shrug off, but brownliners as role model for the latest Zombie flick is applying the boots to our prone form.
It wasn’t the steady persecution nor threat of harm, our numbers were thinned steadily by enraged spouses wielding bars of Ivory Snow. A fellow can only take [...]

In Spring a young man’s thoughts turn to love – and in Fall, us mature types think of love too, how much we’d love it to be cooler…
I’m tired of dusty creeks and the rattle of discarded water bottles blowing in the hot breeze. We’ve endured enough fires, sweltering mornings, and fleeing to the safety [...]

It’s one of those moments where you look at your buddy and wonder what hideous crime was committed in a past life that you’re deserved this fate …

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… and when the day’s events are totaled, who’s telling the neighbor the fate of his borrowed landing net, and is [...]

I get envious when I see a grinning angler holding a yard or more of dripping chrome. I realize he’s still under the influence of all that adrenaline – which makes the grin appear natural…
It isn’t. The poor SOB spent half a day in frozen slush with icy rain trickling down his forearm with each [...]

Talk about a “bait and switch” – I was all geared up to insist we all buy it so that our corpse was indistinguishable from the bottom, guaranteeing our watery resting place was undisturbed.
Or, the astounding scientific evidence that we’d be invisible to fish were we to slip it over waders…
Instead, I’ve stumbled on an [...]

I’m in that tiny minority of fishermen that see the Big Picture and won’t lose any sleep over whether a trout fed on deep fried Snicker bars is a true world record or not.
I attribute my pragmatic view to the slow death of the quality water – and the inexorable spread of taint. Too [...]

There’s at least 175 ways to get this outcome accidentally, but only one way to do it intentionally…
Grizzly is one of those “must have” chickens that’s used on absolutely everything. Big feathers used on streamers, small feathers used on dry flies, and everything else used to make hackle tip wings or add mottling to nymph [...]

The US Geological Survey released a study this week suggesting bass are especially prone to gender-bending and are doing so with great gusto.
… makes me wonder whether the professional BASS circuit will be stood on its collective ear when metrosexual bass cease feeding on crankbaits as the ensuing chase makes them all sweaty …
In [...]

I keep harping on the need for a genetic superfish and unfortunately science seems hellbent on granting my wish.
Scientists have been working on reducing painful conditions in farmed livestock so they can be wadded into kennels closer together, fed rocks instead of real food, and beheaded without undue hormonal surge – all for the perfectly [...]