I don’t expect Science will ease a fly tier’s burden anytime soon. Even if they manage to add the vocal gene into a Salmonid and trundle the tank up to the podium … while all us fishermen crane forward waiting to hear what fish really like – it’s liable to eyeball a flybox and croak, [...]

You saw it, you loved it, and now you can drive the wimmenfolk batty with the original DVD, or merely the soundtrack – or both. Rivers of a Lost Coast has been released on DVD, available for $29.95 from the folks at Skinny Fist Productions. It’s just in time to wreak havoc on the entire [...]

Seeing a new wrinkle in any of our traditional regalia has always piqued my interest. Cameron Mortenson at the Fiberglass Manifesto (via Moldy Chum) sent me a little tidbit figuring it would whet the creative juices. The idea of a $100 fly tying bobbin would have had us gagging a couple of years ago, but [...]

It’s one of many angling axioms, how the outdoors-fishing ritual guarantees some unnatural food tucked away in a vest, or cooler, and daylighted with great trepidation knowing the catcalls and scorn that will greet luxury items from those roughing it. A couple days worth of whiskers and yesterday’s underwear is about as close to Jim [...]

While the California legislature and the Governator play the superlatives game; beaming smiles and back pats – sheathing their weapons temporarily while gushing meaningless platitudes about how hard it was to come to consensus, requiring real cleverness to disguise their pet projects and ritual looting of the state’s treasury… … the opposition has had time [...]

My streak of 33 years without being called to Jury Duty, is over. I’ve received sage council from the folks at work; how I can spot a guilty fellow a mile away, it being an innate skill … Carry a copy of “Mein Kampf” under my elbow, and mumble a lot to no one in particular [...]

Fly tying is six weeks thinking of nothing but the fish, tying small stuff to smaller stuff, the shock and awe that all insects don’t suck blood or whine in your ear, the majesty of the first fish caught on your own fly, and the amazing riot of colors and animal parts coveted and purchased … [...]

Another mass escape from a British Columbia fish farm unleashes 40,000 Atlantic Salmon into the Pacific Northwest. … funny how Salmon of any species avoid the “invasive” label, despite their home waters some 3000 miles distant. In traditional fashion, the farmed fish industry has responded with “no worries, it won’t happen again, sorry ..” – [...]

My yarn fetish hasn’t slowed any I’ve just become demure and sensitive to catcalls from the fellows keeping a manly distance from the yarn aisle and fidgeting under the weight of Madam’s purse. My progress through the store monitored closely by a stern female proprietor who always assumes I’m shoplifting. Can’t blame her much, she’s never seen a fellow [...]

There’s a certain contentment knowing coarse fish will be around to confuse and entertain future generations of fly fishermen. They’ll be speaking with the same awe of “Silver’s”, “Grass”, and “Common’s” that we’ve reserved for Brown, Brook, and Rainbow. … and while they’ll continue to siphon mud for hints of protein, we’ll still be able [...]