It should come as no surprise that despite my antisocial behavior – my fondness for bathroom humor, my shortcomings of hygiene and as an angler, I am a middle manager of little distinction. While my peers are hiring sub-20 year olds that giggle a lot and show acres of leg, I’m the curmudgeonly sort that violates [...]

Simple housekeeping post, nothing to shrink away from … Item 1: Dry Fly Samples: I sent out 35 samples of dry fly dubbing to anyone who had the request to me before Sunday. As rendering the stuff into final form takes a bit of time, and I enclosed at least three colors for each of [...]

I once prided myself on my understanding of Science, but this new stuff is a slow learn. I’m tempted to look at your exam and copy your answers, as I can’t seem to grasp some of these longwinded connections … The Greatest Estuary the world has ever known is dying, with the Delta Smelt simply [...]

  An unlikely subject for a music video – I would have expected love unrequited as a best fit for fly fishing, perhaps some soulful ballad, or even a funeral dirge … Technorati Tags: Active Child, music video, fly fishing, boiled beer

Congress can’t agree on trimming a nickel from the federal budget, nor can they bring themselves to address any meaningful social issues, certainly not in a timely manner – but they’re determined to blow hell out of the Internet. They must’ve assumed that lacking a face or political affiliation meant the Internet is fair game, yet [...]

One of the horrors of being thoroughly enamored of a hobby is the fits of giddy that result when something attempted actually lives up to the original idea, versus flaming out midway through the development process. My ambition was to develop a dubbing that mimicked the superfine aquatic mammal fur we’ve reserved for dry flies, yet was cheap [...]

Tying these fuzzballs reminded me of all the notes on competition hooks and their efficacy I’ve been scribbling over the last couple of seasons. I find myself having so many defective hooks of late, and at thirty-five cents a hook I keep trying to make up for poor quality control and fix them with tying [...]

A brief article in some Fishing Wire spam caught my eye and I thought to pass on the tidbit for any proud father whose child might be planning on achieving their Fly Fishing Scout badge. A cursory eyeball of the exam suggests fewer than half of the anglers I know would pass it, given there’s [...]

I’ve warned you plenty of times – yet still I’m the recipient of your extended digit and pronounced raspberry. The Pied Piper of Taut Flesh keeps you thinking you can mix pleasure and sacred avocation, yet us old guys know better – we tried it and perfection can’t be improved on .. Large fish sipping naturals, a light [...]

There are so many absolutes, so many unequivocating terms in the below as to be downright scary: A new study has revealed that the impact of a hatchery environment on steelhead trout is so profound that in just one generation genetic traits are developed that cost fish the natural ability to be able to survive [...]