The old days of lopping the head off a gobbler in your backyard are antiquity. Gentrification assured by CC & R’s that prevent live poultry on your acreage and expressly prohibits the stalking and slaying of same.
“Green” got the better of me, and I circumvented emasculating rules by getting most of a bumper and part of [...]

While the rest of you are droning on about weights and tapers, modulus and action, I’ll be downstream ….
… just me and my Blue Water Barbie.
Via John Merwin and his Honest Angler blog, comes an eye opening video of a fellow catching a 100 pound blue shark on bright pink Barbie rod, complete with closed [...]

Despite two years of closure the count of returning salmon at the Coleman National Fish Hatchery is down 60% compared to last year.
Scott Hamelberg, the hatchery’s manager, said Thursday that only 8,000 Chinook salmon have returned to the Battle Creek hatchery so far this year, down from 14,000 the year before, one of the [...]

As we mentioned in Parts 1 & 2, the measure of true fly beauty is held by fish not humans. Unfortunately only averaging  9 days afield your flies are viewed most by people, and suffering their continual criticisms can make a fly tyer resign himself to please both anglers and quarry.
… and in the doing, gain [...]

If you’ve ever wondered about the inner workings of the genetic hackle business – how years of careful selection and good genes yields those yard-long saddle hackles and expensive rooster necks – you won’t find any of that here…
Instead, we’ll show you how those lengthy saddles are harvested, and how trained specialists size and select [...]

It’s one of those questions that has plagued me for the last couple of years, what happens to fish subjected to the annual torrent of runoff and massive amounts of debris dislodged from upstream.
The small creeks in my area are scoured badly every year, growing to over a thousand times their normal size in [...]

Science has upset matchmaking theory and suggested the perfect mate for a fisherman is a female Smallmouth Bass.
Sexual selection theory asserts that a female should choose to mate with a male that offers a benefit to her or her offspring. If the benefit is genetic, females should be drawn to indicators that a male might [...]

Cameron Mortenson of The Fiberglass Manifesto recently gave away a set of the Precious, for any stalwart willing to tie midges. A worthy contest, liable to bring the worst of a fellow’s character to the fore – what with inhaled fly hooks, gossamer tufts of unmentionables, and everything requiring a microscope to see the craftsmanship.
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If you’re as uncomfortable with the building storm of Xmas advertisement, cognizant that the undeniable forces of consumerism lack the courtesy of waiting for Thanksgiving, you’re not alone.
The only difference between this year and last is all the stock market pundits poised to declare the recession is here here over based on the retail reports [...]

The second issue of “Fish Can’t Read” debuted yesterday, and the boys at Dry Fly Media have really done a bang up job. Lot’s of diverse content, photo essays, and meat … from numerous continents and a variety of gamefish.
… and yes, I added my two cents. This month’s column, “Three Flies Short” is [...]