Last week’s announcement of the First National Fly Fishing competition sponsored by Marshall University just didn’t sit right with me. I may favor competition and most of you don’t, I was fixating on the larger issue – and couldn’t help wonder whether this may be the root cause of those shady hedge fund managers we’ve been [...]

It’s one of those stories that’ll make the biology community grind their teeth in frustration, but it may be a light line paradise for the agile brownliner, whose only concern is turning a Sow’s ear into a silk purse, and can ignore the tears of infants … Everything from Piranha to Gar are being carefully [...]

It’s one very poor argument for nuclear power. While biologists pump steroids into trout eggs to boost muscle mass, it might be simpler just to use the hatchery pond as the coolant for a small nuclear reactor … Some five years ago the Russian nuclear attack submarine Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea. The event [...]

Once the Madison Ave boys kick the campaign into high gear we’ll all be lining up for “Kentucky Tuna.” They’ll have to pull the White Lightning from school lunches, but what child doesn’t gaze adoringly at his Momma when offered a Tuna sand … The pearly white flesh – complicated by a series of bones [...]

It’s the fish you think of on slow days and rekindles flagging interest. It’s the fish that makes up for fussy trout and flies smaller than #20, it’s salve for a season of sunburn and mosquito bites, cures hangovers, and for a couple of too-short months allows us to focus on important fishing principles like [...]

The reason the Pebble Mine gets all the vitriol and press? Simple, all those wealthy lodge owners, salmon fishermen, and hedge fund managers have ties to the Powers that Be … A compelling story in the Alaska Dispatch suggests the Donlin Mine is even bigger, a planned 2 mile wide, 1 mile long open pit [...]

I’m a self confessed collector of hooks and a complete snob. Not that they have to be gilt plated or come from some distant clime, I just need them to be as versatile as screwdrivers and socket wrenches, lots of sizes and similar shapes, but there should be one perfectly suited for the task. I’m [...]

Like most anglers I knew little about hatchery fish other than their sporting qualities. After reading Anders Halvorsen’s book on the history of the hatcheries and the rise of the rainbow trout, I realize that much of the eye-opening information cited has always been there – only buried diligently in those sections of the paper [...]

Here I think I’ve got it bad – a two year ban on salmon fishing and me and my fellows either gashing ourselves over too much water or too little, and now they’ve banned fishing on the Sea of Galilee … … makes you wonder whether that magistrate or agency middle manager wasn’t feeling the [...]

There’s nothing new here. Rich American tourists jetted to exotic third world locale, wined and dined – with native labor herding game towards his lawn chair, iced drink, and high powered rifle. Well heeled angling is just as comfortable. Remote lodges, private beats, and cold drinks on tap, a rich landscape for the tour company [...]