This was the weekend where my newly placid and emerald alma mater was to be violated cruelly by my large feet. Flows were perfect, the sun was out – and a balmy 67° predicted.
Friday night was the prenup. Rods inspected, reels freshly oiled, boots sterile from chemical bathes and three months of enforced idle, flies [...]

While the blaring indictments no longer grace the newspapers, it appears another executive has been indicted in what remains of the Madoff debacle.
Our interest has always been in Mark Madoff and his ownership of the Abel Automatics Inc., the maker of Abel reels.
Investigators and the trustee winding down Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC [...]

It started with some small pretense of fairness, Senator Feinstein’s call for a review of the environmental opinion on the Sacramento Delta, an effort to ferret out the “flawed science” that dared put fish before the needs of farms and her pals at the Westland’s Water district.
… while most of us fishermen assumed it [...]

Patronizing my local fly shop has never been a issue. Guys like me always look for the rack of shopping carts when we enter – despite already owning everything.
While online shopping dominates the day to day replacements and flights of fancy, my stern rule is always drop a double sawbuck at the destination shops [...]

An impressionist has the attention span of a small child. The fact that I tried it their way for more than six minutes gives me the license to bend all the rules. Curved hooks and razor points, and why should Caddis be the only beneficiary?
As a purely fact finding exercise I’ve extended the Czech style [...]

Small shards of humor are  intruding into flu enforced idleness – sure signs of a return to sparkling good health. 
It being Winter and tired of the steady onslaught of pending litigation, decline in fisheries, and coupled with knowledge that the Golden Years appear to have been replaced by the Golden Shower, I’m looking for [...]

Singlebarbed reader “TwoRod” has pointed us all towards saving a few bucks. His comment about 1/4” clear elastic as a substitute for the commercial “Super Shrimp Foil / Scud Back” products is the best replacement I’ve seen yet.
I went to eBay to see whether it can be purchased cheaper than the retail link Tworod [...]

The first in a series on the Water Wars of California …

 
… and the rebuttal. The solution is simple, put human life above all other life…

Putting Americans at risk and increasing our dependence on foreign foods? Isn’t that the same thing if we’re forced to import fish?

The potential exists for one last massive upheaval to the site. Scheduled for this weekend, it’s possible we’ll be offline for the better part of a day while sites are swapped between partitions and memory is reallocated to the respective blogs.
While it’s certain you’re pining away for fly fishing irreverence – we’ll be delivering what [...]

Naturally my first thoughts are conspiracy. Some war mongering industrial conglomerate attempting to take my “just kill me” flu induced weakness, to bar my prose from the collective consciousness …
… although the Trout Underground claims otherwise – something about the backup module of the blog software generating page faults that eventually took out a city [...]