As I sit painfully each evening looking about me for content, I notice the reject list of forbidden topics continues to get in the way of tomorrow’s post … “Forbidden” only because I’m tired of reporting how few are left, what’s in them that we (you and I) shouldn’t eat, and all the other reminders [...]

It’s a given that your coworkers think you’re nuts. While you’re pantomiming heroic deeds at the watercooler – punctuated by scratching Poison Oak, massaging hook holes and the scraped shins of your post-Opening Day Monday, their inquiries as to your success or failure fall on deaf ears, what’s most important and what they cannot understand – is [...]

As I grow older I find it easy to identify with the Sith Lord, versus the insufferably righteous and preachy Jedi crowd. For us fly fishermen the lure of the Dark Side seems more appropriate given how close the downward spiral that is fly fishing, mirrors that of intravenous drug addiction. The eventual homelessness resulting [...]

Only wading anglers and duck hunters share that involuntary wince that comes with leaving terra firma, knowing the only thing between you and becoming a fossil fuel is two hundred years of decayed tules, woven together by the occasional Willow root and buttressed by the odd Safeway bag, washed from upstream. Ten thousand years from now that mix [...]

As next Saturday is Opening Day of trout season in California, and lacking any true originality, most of you will be practicing your sudden onset of infirmity, or dry eyed and grief struck over the sudden death of a heretofore unknown close relative, and all this simply to cut out early on Friday … … [...]

I’d call it something like, “noble foe mistreated horribly, first by Monsanto, then by sushi-loving Hipster.” Let’s eat Glow-Inna-Dark genetically-engineered, research fish despite their being finely honed scientific thoroughbreds, engineered for pollution detection … … and that Glow Inna Dark thing, shouldn’t matter on the flavor dont’cha think?   Madam, what you were attempting to convey [...]

You spend millions on a campaign to raise awareness, you spend additional tens-of-thousands of man-hours speaking to the public, nailing signs to trees, producing pamphlets to educate the general public, then resort to interrupting holiday traffic and causing pandemonium at the boat launch for what? A North Dakota man accused of introducing zebra mussels into [...]

… and while the mini Big Box’s are squabbling over table scraps, along comes the Dragon and ate ‘em all up … Cabela’s Incorporated, the World’s Foremost Outfitter® of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, along with the Federation of Fly Fishers, announced today plans to offer industry-leading instruction for beginning fly anglers at 13 Cabela’s [...]

Now that Maryland has reinstituted last season’s Snakehead bounty, gifting anglers a $200 Gift certificate from Bass Pro Shops for each kill, most of the state is likely mulling dumping their day job and becoming a Bounty Killer in the image of Clint Eastwood .. As always, your friends and family won’t understand, and they’ll [...]

We ignore charities only because our readership doesn’t know the first thing about the social graces, joining the Human Race only long enough to cash the occasional paycheck. It’s not that we’re some form of hideous beast, merely we spend our weekends with lost causes. If it’s not the fish then it’s the watershed suffering, and while we’d [...]