I remember what you said, “ … shan’t, mustn’t, can’t. Leave the dead and dying on the roadbed, as the warden is likely to grab you by the ass and slap a hefty fine on you.” As it was technically possible that I’d grabbed the Opossum by his little rat tail and hurled him under [...]

It’s a mixture of chance or luck that aligns celebrities with the love of the out of doors. We’ve enjoyed a lot of minor nobles and B-list celebs, interspersed with Presidents and hedge fund big wigs, but that mainstream banner-carrier continues to elude us  … … mostly because the jury is still pending on that [...]

With everyone alternately bemoaning the lack of newcomers to the sport, and cursing those that do show up as movie fanbois, it’s a wonder what few social organizations remain continue to insist on out-of-the-box thinking in the hope we’ll lure kids away from Nintendo and into the arms of us antisocial fly fisherman … Porn would make [...]

It’s increasingly important for us torturers of living creatures to live up to the collective Metrosexual expectation at work, given that we freely admit to sleeping on the ground, and consider bathing optional. We’re like the city kid that bought his first four wheel drive vehicle, way down deep he knows it needs a deep [...]

I remember Pop would hustle home from work, reach for that big 12 foot surf rod and Penn Senator whose level wind required an educated thumb, and ignoring me and older bro’s entreaties, as we weren’t old enough to come, he’d vanish in the Jeep to return carrying two huge fish that represented a week’s fine dining. [...]

At one point both of them were black. The one on the left is what I’ve been wearing the last couple of years; fragrant with stale human, pomade, and insect repellant – the one on the right is clean, sterile, and looking for a home … Them as has commented plenty are to be admired, [...]

It’s why I have to whisper encouragement to all them Blueliner’s when they pretend they want to come fish with me … I hear that molar-on-molar grind and attempt to restore their calm before they hurt themselves in a fit of piqué. Trout fishermen being used to fishing only in the first three dimensions; simple [...]

While the continuing saga of the Asian carp has done wonders for guided bow fishing, the rest of us unfortunates have largely been shut out of this orgy of sanctioned killing  … The Good News is that all that is about to change now that ballistics experts have invented “Super Cavitating” rifle ammo which allows [...]

Certainly, I always suspected us fishermen were ahead of the curve, but all that dope smoking in High School left us a couple of IQ short of a MENSA member. If we’d run across some of those eggheads that attended class they might of mentioned we were waving around the fissionable equivalent of 140 Hiroshima’s [...]

Angered over the recent contest won by Roscoe, New York as America’s Fishing Town, the principality of Dunsmuir, California, decided to squander precious treasury dollars to become Home of the Mashed Fin Fatty. With its long history as a fishing destination, the town is tossing a fly of its own onto I-5, hoping to lure [...]