As Oregon evolves their fishing regulations to make salmon snagging less profitable, the unattended consequence could be shortening the fishing day, denying dry fly fishermen that last hour of twilight awesomeness. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is about to launch a public process aimed at revising state fishing regulations, something the agency does [...]

Fishing being a more painful variant of masochism, whose practitioners lust for big fish knowing they’re accompanied by hardship; cold rain, poisonous snakes, blisters, and other trappings of kink, yet are still at a loss to explain its attraction to normal folks. While traveling last week, I did have time to inhale a small salad while [...]

As soon as I mentioned the waves of famished fish eagerly casting themselves in the path of anything Olive, I knew I’d overstepped the boundaries of both physics or logic and brought unwanted voodoo magic into the mix. Fishing being a simple exercise in Chaos theory most days, but if you promise anyone anything about [...]

Would the splintered fiberglass suggest it was the classic “head & tail” rise – or could we claim he was turning the boat in a panic, making him a spinner? … This is a real whale … That’s a real dentist … Actually, that’s a real LUCKY dentist … Technorati Tags: riseform, floating fly, dentistry, [...]

The firm that I knew as “The Scourge of Grizzly Hackle”, Fine Featherheads – has apparently ignored PETA’s repeated “cease and desist” warnings about false advertising, and has drawn a law suit as its reward. At issue was the Featherhead claim that Whiting Farms treats its roosters “ethically” rather than gleefully tearing great handfuls of  [...]

Healthy living is browsing a web page that mentions, “eating whole foods” – and as I finish ingesting a whole box of donuts, I can snicker, “I do that.” Unfortunately the United States ongoing love affair with processed white flour, fast food, and the Internet has overcome the miracles of science, and for the first [...]

All those hours spent reading articles on clean, dry, and  inspect, which elevated our readiness to the angling equivalent of Seal Team Six – to defend ourselves from any hidden environmental menace, may have positioned us to be the only group able to appreciate the enormity of the latest invasion-du-jour – and act on it with all possible haste. There comes a time when [...]

It’s probably the only time we’ve seen friend Chandler earnest and straight-faced as he plays Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter, to angling author (and Underground Fave) John Gierach. Like him or love him, Mr. Gierach is the most quotable soundbyte in fly fishing, more importantly he can do so without drawing the ire of countless readers, [...]

I’m reading how two guides got into a tiff while fishing with clients, and in the ensuing festivities one fellow’s wake nearly pitched four clients into some Texas lake, which nets the pissed off wake-throwing guide arrest, jail, and the chance to post bail. Cruz, released from jail Thursday night on a $1,000 bond, said [...]

It makes for a superb fish story, but as someone who’s had a similar experience, it’s the last thing expected and can certainly send an unwanted shudder through your frame. Kid thinks he’s hooked fish, reels in human foot that comes off the hook just after it’s recognized, triggering search for remainder of body … [...]