With all the genes being sprayed at the tasty fish we should’ve known eventually we might get something other than a soft docile lump, content with pellet feed and milling aimlessly within its concrete lined habitat.
All the gnashing of teeth and mention of asterisks will be done away with … and by them that protested [...]

I know I shouldn’t look, but I did.
There are thousands of highly trained scientists examining the diet and feeding habits of both salmon and trout. The Bad News is they’re doing so to determine whether they can be raised on Plutonium pellets, concrete, animal waste, or anything else we don’t want…
An admirable task that [...]

Science has upset matchmaking theory and suggested the perfect mate for a fisherman is a female Smallmouth Bass.
Sexual selection theory asserts that a female should choose to mate with a male that offers a benefit to her or her offspring. If the benefit is genetic, females should be drawn to indicators that a male might [...]

The US Geological Survey released a study this week suggesting bass are especially prone to gender-bending and are doing so with great gusto.
… makes me wonder whether the professional BASS circuit will be stood on its collective ear when metrosexual bass cease feeding on crankbaits as the ensuing chase makes them all sweaty …
In [...]

I’ve always been jealous of the really good social issues, having some neo-Jesus like Bono or Sting whispering in the President’s ear is guaranteed to fast track aid to the starving millions in [insert_name_here].
Us fishermen have endured the conspicuous lack of Tier 1 entertainment talent advancing our issues with heads of state, or immortalizing us [...]

You spend most of your life chasing them and if successful you gleefully thump them into oblivion, unless your girlfriend is looking -  in which case you search vainly for something semi-sanitary to smack them with and failing that you let them go …
… and year’s later you’re sitting on the side of the [...]

I hadn’t thought about it much until I started catching Smallmouth bass with regularity. Trout and saltwater fish shared a similar resigned expression when handled; dull and lifeless – as if garnished with lemon was better than cavorting with mayflies or seaweed.
Smallmouth were different, they’d fix you with a malevolent gaze, watching every move [...]