As a really tasty “pain and suffering” verdict could be in excess of twenty million, now’s the time to look hard at your legal staff.
I’ll be sprawled amidst all that oak and cow leather sending another smoke ring towards the ceiling fan, while the earnest young chap insists he’s onboard … he’s got the [...]

… sure we poo-poo wild claims of fellow anglers, but that was in those hardship years of your youth, pre-Silverfin. The water was clear, the fish were refined and a meal was skill-based and the work of an evening.

Now angling will be removing the muffler off your wife’s Subaru and driving along the levee with [...]

We’re ill prepared to encounter someone interested in our fish – where our attempts to catch them interfere with others trying to photograph or paint fish in their natural surroundings.
As the Pristine dwindles it’s likely to put a great number of heretofore invisible wildlife lovers squarely in our path. and begs the question, who gets first dibs at the quarry?
Considering we’ve got [...]

Something I missed from earlier this year. For 2010, the Department of Fish & Game no longer requires California anglers to have their fishing license in plain sight.
Initially it was a good idea, but the advent of licenses purchased over the Internet and printed by home computer eliminated the brightly colored paper – which [...]

Our dictionary defines “keeper” not as a fish large enough to eat, but a significant other whose charity feeds our my addiction.
… I suppose she could be having a torrid affair with some buff appliance salesman – using this as camouflage, but does it really matter?
Most fishermen are packing the night before and are [...]

I want to call him Wil E. Coyote – what with tiptoeing around a couple thousand pounds of hungry bear to snatch dinner …

There’s a slim chance you could train a black Labrador to do something similar. It would at least give the worthless flea-bit lump a chance to earn his keep in between [...]

Bait fishing wasn’t so bad, especially after we discovered which of our dumb-assed buddies was really interested in fishing, and which were there just to break rods.
Lure fishing was better. We were suddenly agile – no longer rooted. Fishing became seduction versus sitting motionless hoping to be victimized. Fly fishing was better yet, we could tweak [...]

While the rest of you are droning on about weights and tapers, modulus and action, I’ll be downstream ….
… just me and my Blue Water Barbie.
Via John Merwin and his Honest Angler blog, comes an eye opening video of a fellow catching a 100 pound blue shark on bright pink Barbie rod, complete with closed [...]

Fishing statistics are so rare I can’t help but pounce on them when offered. Like most pitchmen I’ll spin the numbers to prove something horrific and discard the facts enroute to a shaky conclusion.
This time it’s the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) and the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) who’ve commissioned Southwick Associates to [...]

The latest viral video to sweep the Internet and it’s not angling’s finest hour…
I’ve always prided myself on not caring what bit my fly, and with all the goat carcasses and derelict automobiles I thread through – I’m no longer squeamish about what I step in …

A couple more of these and a new hobby [...]