The famous “fly eating bush” – nemesis of the western fly fishermen, appears to have a long and illustrious future should global warming descend on us in all its projected fury … When exposed to increased carbon dioxide, precipitation, nitrogen and temperature, all expected results of climate change, yellow star thistle in some cases grew [...]

One of those facts that every new guide is horrified to learn his first season. How clients never bother to practice casting before buying a fly fishing trip of a lifetime, and how the guide has to teach a heavy handed neurosurgeon how to cast more than ten feet, often simply thrusting a beadhead  Bobbercator combo [...]

Dear Large Outdoor Clothier, Gentlemen, I received the  shirt you’d asked me to review just before Memorial Day weekend. Normally I would have considered the timing perfect, as that three day holiday is when all of us take to the woods intent on sport. I would have subjected your clothing to an exhaustive battery of [...]

Taking all that DNA sequencing out of the crime lab and aiming it at your meat counter suggests that nearly 25% of prepared fish in meat counters are mislabeled. Steaks and fillets often lack scales fins or identifying features which allows a cheap freshwater catfish to substitute for a higher end cod. … and earning [...]

I remember his comment as if it was yesterday. “It attaches to your belt and emits anti-mosquito sound waves, keeping the bloodsucking pests off you without changing your genetic code with a generous dollop of DEET …” Upon his return from the wilds of Alaska we were doubly quick to ask, “Well, how did the [...]

I’m not so sure it wasn’t a rogue band of dry fly purists that assaulted the local bait shop, making off with a 100,000 maggots. Given the meager supply of dry fly hackles were nearly exhausted due to rampant hoarding of trendy hair stylists, and with the season just underway, it was likely a spur of the moment [...]

I’ll go along with TC’s latest discovery … … guy hair extensions … Technorati Tags: bacon,dyed bacon,fly fishing humor

Psychologists are thinking children learn words in some unknown and mysterious method, versus the more traditional associative pairing … see Daddy, hear the word “Daddy” – assume the looming enormous thing that smells like beer, is Daddy … I could have told them they were barking up the wrong tree, simply because all real knowledge [...]

It was so much easier when I lived on the banks of Hat Creek and could fiddle with the fly before throwing it at the same fish I’d thrown it at the night before. If they ate it, it was success. If they didn’t, we kept fiddling with it. With no fish visible last night [...]

This weekend I’ll be painting Didymo on them rocks with a spatula. I’ll be the fellow whose 4 X 4 axles will be glowing white hot as I mash my way through cottonwoods and willows and into your favorite pool – there to dismount the smoking wreck while it dribbles petroleum products into the Pristine. [...]