I struggled with batting averages largely because I’d hoped everyone would forget mine. Being the KPL (Kid Picked Last) carries a blacker mark than Mister Irrelevant as it amounts to a youthful version of  shunning …
Pro Bass anglers have statistics too. They endure CAV (catch average value), MAV (money average value), and LAV (limit [...]

Visions of me and Rachel Ray, the soft tinkle of fine crystal and a dusty carafe of aged spirits – small-talking our way through the commercial break …
The book signings, the adoring fans, followed by the reality show and ample syndication stream.
Instead I’m spiraling back to earth as another blogger has unveiled the “Ultimate Brownliner [...]

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 [...]

Patronizing my local fly shop has never been a issue. Guys like me always look for the rack of shopping carts when we enter – despite already owning everything.
While online shopping dominates the day to day replacements and flights of fancy, my stern rule is always drop a double sawbuck at the destination shops [...]

Small shards of humor are  intruding into flu enforced idleness – sure signs of a return to sparkling good health. 
It being Winter and tired of the steady onslaught of pending litigation, decline in fisheries, and coupled with knowledge that the Golden Years appear to have been replaced by the Golden Shower, I’m looking for [...]

They have heard the countless stories interspersed with Catch & Release holiness that excuses physical proof. Buddies and in-laws whistle appreciatively while stories of fish hooked, held, and lost are offered with grainy digital images featuring out-thrust arms that skew proportions, motion blur where fish should be – and large splashes where the shy yet [...]

With the promise of but a single day of sunshine between storms and with most of next season’s flies already completed, I had a fast closing window of opportunity, and took it.
Some prefer soaking in pricey venues with mud bathes and mineral springs, instead I uncrated all of my wading finery to launder – in [...]

UK scientists have unearthed a startling new trove of prehistoric angling gear, containing evidence that fly fishing may have developed in prehistoric times …
UK and Chinese scientists are suggesting that the Confuciusornis fossil discovered in China, may have been a dinosaur with a Mohawk of ginger colored feathers running down its spine.
… as this is [...]

The evidence has always been there – but most of us lack the proper venue to espouse sinister conspiracy theories. I’ve been lax on this front for many months, but even the halls of respectable Science are suggesting we may have visitors …
Ask yourself, why is it the Asian Carp turned North when released from [...]

Her icy gaze punctuated by the bony digit pointed in my direction …
Naturally, I tried the First Law of Backpedalling, innocence.
“ … What?”
I gazed around studiously avoiding That Which She Held, but I guess my look of innocence wasn’t quite up to par – or I’d gone to that well too many times …
I was Flat [...]