It doesn’t matter whether your favorite is Milky Way, Mounds, Snickers, or even the venerable Hershey with Almonds, the only thing that strikes fear into your heart is the words, “New, Larger Size!” … or something similar … As kids we learned that an “extra 33%, free”, meant a hike in price was imminent, sending our [...]

I’ve always called it by what it’s good at doing, combining all manner of leftovers into a “chaos wrap”, which tames a gaggle of unruly and dissimilar materials into something cohesive on your hook shank. As well as melding unrelated objects it can right-size materials that are too long, and add some thread spine into [...]

We’ve looked them over with scarcely concealed avarice. Noting every curve, bulge and deep spot, and while our moral fabric is porous enough to exploit them with great vigor, we know our fantasy will end badly, beaten by onlookers and led away in manacles…   Golf courses always seem to have an abundance of lonely [...]

Ever mindful of the luxury of a readership whose unflinching interest in fishing related minutiae knows little boundary, whose tastes for gross exaggeration and half truths are met with unwavering good humor,  I’ll reveal why your fly rod will double in price over the next four or five years. … and why you may skip a few mortgage [...]

The physics of it all dictate lighter and smaller, the biology suggests buggier, and all the painstaking research says we’ve only scratched the surface of their depravity, as their tastes might range from drab to the ridiculously bright. Physics because there’s a lot less water and rather than flinging high atomic weight, I may drag [...]

I was starting to like the “two-a-days”, first the TSA worked me over gingerly with rubber gloves, then the US Border Patrol gave me a taste of the rubber truncheon, convincing me to give up searching for all those NorCal trout streams that had been pumped South … I felt I was obligated to find [...]

As this is another “travel week” you’ll have to find other sources for your noon chuckle. As I hear so few true fishing jokes I felt obligated to share. A woman goes into Cabela’s to buy a rod and reel for her grandson’s birthday.  She doesn’t know which one to get, so she just grabs [...]

GQ magazine was kind enough to share a tidbit with me on America’s Best Fishing, which confirmed our worst fears on the burgeoning Metrosexual Menace… Detroit, San Diego, and Charleston, South Carolina. No mention of the piney woods, clean water, or any activity liable to soil a silk shirt. “The Real Outdoors” is for vacationing family guys, [...]

Most have participated in similar rites of passage, wherein a casual watercooler conversation makes an impression, and now one or more of your coworkers really-truly wants to go … … which always takes you aback, given that you didn’t expect your recital of heroics would appeal to the metrosexuals listening, and what was an idle [...]

I was after some jaw-dropping account of ecological hideousness counter to what we’d been taught, before I realized that the interesting part was unsubstantiated and therefore best left untouched … But in the doing, stumbled across an interesting narrative from 2010 on research done on boats and their likelihood of carrying unwelcome goober from one [...]