I think it necessary to occasionally give the gals credit for putting up with us. While I’ve changed the names to protect the innocent, rest assured this conversation is merely one scene among many … (I call it “Kiki’s Guide to landing Keeper Wimmen, Fly Fishing Edition.”) At my domicile, each time “Herself” arrives from [...]

I thought of it as answering one of many questions I’ve always had about watersheds and how soon they recovered from obvious trauma. Travelwriter had spied some rising fish in a stretch of the river that was normally bone dry this time of year. Adding 170% more water to the stream means the farming community [...]

The entire idea of a much ballyhooed “lifestyle” brand is largely lost on me, my shortcoming entirely, nothing wrong with the rest of you. Guys love wearing other people’s advertising, and I don’t – insisting that Jim Beam pay me for the privilege. ( … and due to the vast expanse of my pasty and [...]

I figure my sudden foray into dubbing was like McDonald’s adding salads to an otherwise lard-based menu. How the lights abruptly dimmed and the sudden demand for lettuce left most of the country rediscovering Broccoli for their evening meal. Like the gals and their hair extensions, I was unfazed that I emptied most warehouses of [...]

The National Fish Habitat Board just released a summary of the risks for watershed and habitat degradation for the entire US. Overall, 27 percent of the miles of stream in the lower 48 states are at high or very high risk of current habitat degradation and 44 percent are at low or very low risk.  [...]

The process wherein you become your father is long, memorable, and completely horrifying. One day you’re dutifully changing your oil at 3000 miles, only to be reminded that no one does that anymore. … or your painfully enduring some meeting that’s prolonged by the speaker feeling it necessary to answer his smart phone at every [...]

I have it on good faith that the only reason they wanted the prime saddles for hair extensions is because we put, “No Gurlz Allowed” on the clubhouse door … That’s the last of it honest, we can have the rest.  Technorati Tags: Intruder, ostrich plume eyelash, feather eyelash extensions, no gurlz allowed, fly tying [...]

Those of you old enough to remember Dan White and the Twinkie Defense are about to make bank, but only if you can hold a straight face while being pummeled by Gendarmes and hairless screaming females … No, we’re not interested in a mundane purse snatching, we’re about to score acres of free 12 – [...]

It wasn’t overflowing its banks, it was mostly transparent, it was largely wet, completely private and I managed to commit most of the Opening Day sins on my tackle to exorcise me of later demons. While the first fishable water of the season made it feel like Opening Day, and the jitters that come with [...]

If they’d only let me know I’d have been happy to help. Now that all the rain swollen creeks around my place are starting to recede, it’s revealing all the navigationally challenged animals that climbed out of the murky Sacramento and attempted to ascend my beloved Brownline … They intercepted this rare Green Sturgeon just [...]