You drive a Prius (or it drives you), you only use fur from renewable animals that aren’t clubbed to death, you release all your fish, police your candy bar wrappers, and field strip your cigarette butts so only the wind knows of your passing … You wear rubber soles and sterile gear for fear of [...]

Confirmation of what we’ve always suspected, that with the climb in water temperature due to summer’s heat, and corresponding decline in dissolved oxygen, that stoneflies migrate to the faster flows where the oxygen is again plentiful. Anyone who’s held a stonefly in still water has seen the gyrations it goes through to force oxygen over [...]

-via the Toledo Blade / Andy Morrison I warned you about all of those untreated wastewater byproducts that burble out of the sewage treatment plant unfiltered. Rather than clean up our collective act – we were content with all-female fish and estrogen enriched Wonderbread … … now the all them Hex’s share your yen for [...]

If fly tying wasn’t such a mood based hobby your flies would be twice as good. A big order of tiny, upthrust, and gossamer locks the poor tyer into a mayfly mindset and when a big black ant is up next – being a “slab” of protein completely out of place on water, the result is [...]

Ask any kid old enough, and he’ll be the first to tell you that eggplant sucks, along with most leafy greens, tubers, and anything else Ma insists he eat before the dessert course … … and as all them vegetable-hating kids grew up to be us, we won’t have any compulsion about boycotting genetically engineered [...]

Fishermen have always put catching far above creature comforts as it makes the story twice worthy of the retelling. Breathable waders will be jettisoned in favor of the new “mummified” look – a return to leggings and the garb of yesteryear. Why? Because you’ll have the scent of a million smashed caddis tucked in the [...]

Alex Cerveniak of 40 Rivers to Freedom and the Hatch’s Blog network is creating yet another endeavor documenting all possible fish foods and the flies to represent them. Entitled, “Eat the Fly” it’s an ambitious undertaking that will contain the common food items and insects available to fish, offset by some of the fly patterns [...]

Most of us anglers are oblivious to what goes on in all those streambed nooks and crannies. We’re content so long as it emerges at dusk and exists in enough numbers to keep fish fat and healthy. Like the dinosaur – scientists assumed that the biggest were at the top of the food chain and [...]

In an interesting turn of events it appears the Hexagenia mayflies of Lake Erie may be blamed for polluting the lake. … nasty little buggers, those … In a similar experiment, Chaffin found that a burrowing mayfly can kick up buried phosphorus. Once that phosphorus is back in the water, it can fuel more algae [...]

Only 109 seconds to master both human nature and entomology. You’ll master aquatic, terrestrial, learned behavior – and be able to relate to your children as never before. No need to thank me, it’s what I do … Warning: Don’t drink coffee while watching, it may come out of your nose. … and all my [...]