The entire idea of a much ballyhooed “lifestyle” brand is largely lost on me, my shortcoming entirely, nothing wrong with the rest of you. Guys love wearing other people’s advertising, and I don’t – insisting that Jim Beam pay me for the privilege. ( … and due to the vast expanse of my pasty and [...]

It wasn’t overflowing its banks, it was mostly transparent, it was largely wet, completely private and I managed to commit most of the Opening Day sins on my tackle to exorcise me of later demons. While the first fishable water of the season made it feel like Opening Day, and the jitters that come with [...]

I didn’t know much of anything when I saw first saw it, now I’m not sure I know more, but I’ve certainly scratched my head enough. Knowing that the only truism about “advances” in [insert angling gadget here] science, is that whatever the manufacturer claims can be discarded immediately. It’s up to all them other [...]

OK, so all the free thinking types live in Utah, home to plenty of desert and even more Mormons … Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed the bill into law this week, designating the Browning model M1911 automatic pistol as the official state firearm. Polygamists are big on the multiple hit theory of gunplay, hence their [...]

It was simply the best fly line ever made, and if you were a bamboo junkie your heart broke on the announcement of their demise. The best plastic facsimile to the silk fly line, with a finer tip than any line before or since … … that self-same tip that won’t float more than six [...]

The last of them mean old ladies in the Post Office line have finally sheathed their brooms, irate that I keep hogging all the pretty girls in the Priority mail section. I keep telling them it’s for a good cause, but at that age anything standing between them and a nap is the enemy. If [...]

Now that the worm is so much smaller does the resolve exist to do the right thing or are we fishermen insistant that previous wrongs have been so egregious we’re going to plow forward without thought to consequences and our fair share? The federal government is starting to trim their budget meaningfully, not meaningfully enough to abandon [...]

It’s part of my New Year’s resolution; less words, more emotion, entirely visual, mostly so I can connect with all them interrupt driven younger fellows … … and for them as has never received a fly rod for Christmas, it goes something like this … … only better. Technorati Tags: fly rod, fly fishing humor, [...]

Last night’s thunderstorm had scrubbed the Little Stinking as clean as I’d ever seen it. I woke Sunday expecting to see more of the same, but all the weather was at a distance and I had a large chunk of blue sky to make a mad dash for the creek. Enough time to get muddy [...]

I always wondered just how much the fishing angle would play if I strode up to the voting booth and was faced with the unenviable choice of Tweedledum, “I love the out of doors, some of my best friends live there” – and Tweedledee, “I love the out of doors, I fly fish there often.” [...]