The Good Bad & Ugly swells to a crescendo … just before “Angel Eyes” takes a vocal and noisome powder … It’s coffee out the nose time. Technorati Tags: nothing to do with Fishing

I recently got a flood of hardcore fish porn from a bevy of self styled male fashion models, each insistent that their freshly minted Singlebarbed headpiece freed them of drooping backcasts, societal inhibitions, and idol worship … The fabled carp slayer John Montana and his sidekick Dr. Cane, who risked his micrometer-like fingers to heft [...]

I’m reading how two guides got into a tiff while fishing with clients, and in the ensuing festivities one fellow’s wake nearly pitched four clients into some Texas lake, which nets the pissed off wake-throwing guide arrest, jail, and the chance to post bail. Cruz, released from jail Thursday night on a $1,000 bond, said [...]

In what amounts to direct competition with fly shops, Redington will be marketing its products directly to the customer as of October 1st. Visitors to the Redington web site will be able to purchase products three ways; via dealers, direct from Redington, or via online dealer web sites. “We are planning to go direct, but [...]

It makes for a superb fish story, but as someone who’s had a similar experience, it’s the last thing expected and can certainly send an unwanted shudder through your frame. Kid thinks he’s hooked fish, reels in human foot that comes off the hook just after it’s recognized, triggering search for remainder of body … [...]

I’m a sucker for the dim view, given that economics and temperature mixed with apathy and the potential decline in size of the US government adds up to be  the worst scenario, not the neutral agent others envision. The short version is that a panel of 11 scientists from Colorado State University, Trout Unlimited, the [...]

I keep thinking of the scene from Rocky where he’s ordered to become “greasy fast” by chasing  chickens … … and why there’s liable to be enough young girls running around chasing saddle hackle that their caterwauling will rival the Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan show … I tried to book a flight, figuring [...]

The trade magazines are busy writing odes to guides, how they’re an underappreciated yet potential sources of much retail trade, waiting to be exploited by a canny fly shop management team … I wind up scratching my head a lot at the prospect, wondering how once per year makes for an indivisible instructional bond between [...]

I had fish porn show up in my Inbox this weekend. Some stalwart abandons both family and responsibilities to fish the Eel River for an hour, and gets a welcome tug … Resulting in a nice specimen of the California’s “Golden Salmon” draped on the bank. Naturally I was intensely jealous – accusing him of [...]

Tackle Trade World has a small article outlining the rapidity by which European salons adopted hair extensions and the demise of Europe’s stock of Grizzly hackle (PG 46) – due to the hair extension craze. The only real news is the article documents that which I’ve feared most, they’ve moved from saddles to necks … [...]