It doesn’t matter whether your favorite is Milky Way, Mounds, Snickers, or even the venerable Hershey with Almonds, the only thing that strikes fear into your heart is the words, “New, Larger Size!” … or something similar … As kids we learned that an “extra 33%, free”, meant a hike in price was imminent, sending our [...]

I was starting to like the “two-a-days”, first the TSA worked me over gingerly with rubber gloves, then the US Border Patrol gave me a taste of the rubber truncheon, convincing me to give up searching for all those NorCal trout streams that had been pumped South … I felt I was obligated to find [...]

Most have participated in similar rites of passage, wherein a casual watercooler conversation makes an impression, and now one or more of your coworkers really-truly wants to go … … which always takes you aback, given that you didn’t expect your recital of heroics would appeal to the metrosexuals listening, and what was an idle [...]

As I sit painfully each evening looking about me for content, I notice the reject list of forbidden topics continues to get in the way of tomorrow’s post … “Forbidden” only because I’m tired of reporting how few are left, what’s in them that we (you and I) shouldn’t eat, and all the other reminders [...]

It’s a given that your coworkers think you’re nuts. While you’re pantomiming heroic deeds at the watercooler – punctuated by scratching Poison Oak, massaging hook holes and the scraped shins of your post-Opening Day Monday, their inquiries as to your success or failure fall on deaf ears, what’s most important and what they cannot understand – is [...]

As I grow older I find it easy to identify with the Sith Lord, versus the insufferably righteous and preachy Jedi crowd. For us fly fishermen the lure of the Dark Side seems more appropriate given how close the downward spiral that is fly fishing, mirrors that of intravenous drug addiction. The eventual homelessness resulting [...]

Only wading anglers and duck hunters share that involuntary wince that comes with leaving terra firma, knowing the only thing between you and becoming a fossil fuel is two hundred years of decayed tules, woven together by the occasional Willow root and buttressed by the odd Safeway bag, washed from upstream. Ten thousand years from now that mix [...]

As next Saturday is Opening Day of trout season in California, and lacking any true originality, most of you will be practicing your sudden onset of infirmity, or dry eyed and grief struck over the sudden death of a heretofore unknown close relative, and all this simply to cut out early on Friday … … [...]

We ignore charities only because our readership doesn’t know the first thing about the social graces, joining the Human Race only long enough to cash the occasional paycheck. It’s not that we’re some form of hideous beast, merely we spend our weekends with lost causes. If it’s not the fish then it’s the watershed suffering, and while we’d [...]

If you’re like me you read some sites to teach you how to fish, some that teach where to fish, others show flies, leaders, hints & tips, and then there are a rare few that instruct you in the proper way to hold a dessert spoon while fishing … Today however, I’ll break with dispensing [...]