All our lives we’ve dreamt of this fish, and when it arrives we think it something beneath our refined taste buds and certainly unworthy of sport. The fact that you continue to purchase Budweiser is testimony to your lack of tastebuds, ensuring you’d enjoy a donut about as much as a dog turd if both [...]

It would be easier if fishermen actually liked eating fish, but most of you simply enjoy torturing them and put them back instead. By doing so, the Federal government would like you to know you’re adding to the trade deficit, depriving the US of thousands of domestic jobs, as well as propagating the notion you’re [...]

Science suggests that it would prefer you not call an invasive species,  invasive … Firstly, it may hurt their feelings, and secondly, given that it’s successful in outcompeting the local fare means it’s possibly superior (owning Adonis DNA), and may simply be species extincting a weaker occupant of the same resource … In short, as [...]

A few thousand gallons of crude down the Yellowstone is merely a drop in the bucket compared to what that area may be facing. It’s called a lot of things, but “oil shale” is about the best way to describe the discovery of oil deposits that may dwarf those of Saudi Arabia … within the confines [...]

Before bamboo, before graphite, long before we learned to curl an upper lip, before we could distinguish light and heavy, spinning from bait casting, and fly – prior to swearing off the Unclean Thing – and back when everything  was mystery, fear, and wonderment, there was this fishing stuff… Dad mentioned it, and we assumed it was [...]

The latest issue of Angling Trade brings together a number of articles related to the growing gulf between anglers, fly shops, and manufacturers, given that each is struggling to evolve and survive in the face of a double dip recession. It’s probably their best issue yet, but after digesting it from cover to cover I’m unsettled [...]

Dear Large Outdoor Clothier, Gentlemen, I received the  shirt you’d asked me to review just before Memorial Day weekend. Normally I would have considered the timing perfect, as that three day holiday is when all of us take to the woods intent on sport. I would have subjected your clothing to an exhaustive battery of [...]

The entire idea of a much ballyhooed “lifestyle” brand is largely lost on me, my shortcoming entirely, nothing wrong with the rest of you. Guys love wearing other people’s advertising, and I don’t – insisting that Jim Beam pay me for the privilege. ( … and due to the vast expanse of my pasty and [...]

Without all that meticulous planing, hand sanding and the careful assembly of six equal strands of historic weed, is a shellacked cane pole worth $695? Tenkara fans seem to think so. Or is it the nose-inna-air purist tenkara fans that insist on the natural mats? Fishing being what it is; the last bastion of opinionated [...]

Now that the US seafood industry is again flexing its marketing muscle, having been stung with the backlash of Frankenfish, you’ve got to wonder how Madison Avenue will wring wholesome and organic from the vision of a muscular misshapen fish bumping into the sides of a plastic kiddy pool. Like all the other industry trade [...]