Anglers in a pack can be a lot of fun, with today’s urban fisheries and too many fishermen after too few fish, it’s time to brush up on your social skills and learn how not to be the boorish lout that everyone talks about. Miss Manners won’t touch this so it’s up to me to tell you which is the soup spoon and which the salad fork.

Fly tiers have it a bit easier come Spring, all those rainy days allows us to address holes in the fly box - we always wait till the last minute, but the theory of “winter tying” is sound.
The rest of you will procrastinate as well, but that initial outlay of cash for flies each [...]

Set the beer down and back away slowly, you insensitive brute.
Tomorrow, Thursday, February 14th, is Valentine’s Day, and “Ma” craves a little action. It’s one of the three or four holidays that require you to think about someone else’s “tackle” rather than your own.
Why I want to save you is unclear, a reminder of [...]

My gal was out of the house this weekend so I made melancholy until her car left the driveway. Seizing the opportunity of her absence is important, if she knew what I was up to she’d swivel her head 360 degrees and chase my ass with a butcher knife.
The trick is in hiding your tracks [...]

For the newly christened fly fisherman entomology is one of many disciplines that you didn’t know you needed to know. It’s all part of the initial onslaught that demands attention; learning how to cast, accumulating an outfit, where to go, what to do when you get there, then suddenly bugs, and even worse, Latin and [...]

No, you don’t need a $590 fly rod to learn to cast and if this is the first time you’ve picked up a fly rod in anger, it’s more of a liability than a help.
Resign yourself to your fate, as finding a live human will teach you to cast much quicker than any series of books. [...]