The latest issue of the US Fish & Wildlife magazine, “Eddies” is devoted completely to aquatic invasives. Not just the standard fare we’re used to seeing, but many of the plants that are causing issues for the deep South and Texas. Now that the fissures in rubber shoe soles are being blamed for seed travel, [...]

I’ve seen it many times. Some buddy insists he needs a pound of saddle hackle in a hurry, resulting in a marathon dyeing session with the leftovers emptied into the drain in the street – the one with the fish silhouette that assures you “it leads directly to the river.” Chartreuse being fickle and the first batch [...]

As Sarah Palin has just been booted off The Learning Channel, and has confessed to gunning down anything that walks, crawls, or swims – and especially if it walked, crawled, or swam over our borders illegally, you may want to entertain the notion of a charismatic appointed to the inevitable Czarina of Invasive Diets position. [...]

This was the scene from Mile 33 this morning, you were still showering and cursing the fact you had to go to work. I was too, but being on vacation means I’m vacationing from the paying job, and still required to slave away on those that don’t pay. … neatly describing the fly fishing industry [...]

It’s certain to alter my eBay experience and while the bricks and mortar side of the tackle business will likely retaliate with skimpy dressed sandwich-board waving nubiles, Grandma and the local constabulary will make short shrift of a vendor that succumbs to temptation. She claims her earlier sales were cancelled due to a violation of [...]

With a bit of sun poking through the weather, I’m reminded that fish exist and I’ve got holes aplenty in my fly box from last season. This time it’s the flymphs that took a beating – and it being the self pronounced Second Coming of the Attractors, I’m restocking not the dull and drab – [...]

It appears the real cause of the housing downturn may not have been all them paper derivatives no one understood, rather it  was all them Christians selling their homes and possessions knowing the fabled “End of Days” is nearly upon us. Which in part explains the surge in emigration from those south of the border, [...]

There’s no candy left, or at least none without fingerprints, and you sucked down the Egg Nog without thought to waistline or ill effects. You didn’t get the Sage switch rod you were hoping for, nor does it look like it’ll be in your future any time soon. For most of us, 2010 appeared to [...]