-via R.M. Buquoi Photographics Which do you see? Three deer. One deer and two fawns. One deer, one fawn, and a mess of Dark Humpies? OK, don’t answer … See the last row clearly? Congratulations, you are now a management trainee, guaranteed a heady career with minimal supervision, long hours, and low wages. Marks / [...]

We can only assume a similar mechanism exists in fresh water, innocent fish lured away from the safety of fallen logs and deep pools to the shallow end where they can be caught. After developing for weeks at sea, baby tropical fish rely on natural noises to find the coral reefs where they can survive [...]

The other day I was in one of the better shops, and my non fly tying buddy asked me why the Whiting neck was $85 and the J. Fair Saddle was only $20. My explanation was overheard by the smiling fellow behind the counter and he stopped to correct me, “ there’s over 30 years of [...]

Some suggest the Mecha-Fish might be used for the forces of Good, leading schools of fish away from oil spills, or other form of toxic calamity. As we aren’t among those silly do-gooders, I’d suggest a haversack full of AA batteries, red lipstick smeared fetchingly on the front, then released to bring that school of [...]

The only way I can figure it is there must be two demographics for fly fishermen;  the starry eyed fellow that approaches the counter with an eight hundred dollar rod and asks, “what else do I need?” … and the mean old penny-pinching codger poring over the fly tying materials alternately swearing and grasping his [...]

I’m the fellow that leaped off the couch signaling a “wave off” … frantically gesticulating while your diatribe continues unabated … “Yea, it’s great I showed the shop some of my flies and they want me to tie for them it’s great I get a big discount on all my stuff 40% off on rods [...]

Sure it’s morbid, but knowing all of the scientific hijinks involved haven’t you wondered what they were going to call it? … a leading producer of functional, sustainable Tilapia biomass … With the Food & Drug zealots insisting it has to respire to be called “fish” – and the animal welfare crowd insisting it has [...]

August colds lack the trappings of their wintertime cousins, luring a fellow out of bed prematurely so he can wheeze and wilt under summer’s heat. Two weeks without wheels and I was desperate enough to risk the mile and a half to the body shop to claim my chariot. Nearly expiring in the process, another [...]

In our Bold New World department comes a Salmon angler’s dream, an Atlantic salmon that eats year round, reproduces like a New Zealand Mud Snail and grows twice as fast as real salmon. The only problem is the damn thing has to be taught how to swim. You grab a gene from a Pacific Salmon, [...]

The Gudebrod thread company appears to be another casualty of recent economic upheaval, with banks unwilling to lend and small businesses caught without capital. Gudebrod has been synonymous with silk and rod winding threads for decades, yet has been forced to lay off its entire workforce. W.E. “Nat” LeGrande Jr., company president, said he is [...]