You hear the term often in fly tying, you just don’t see anyone actually doing the deed – outside of the occasional Peacock eye made hairless by swishing it around in caustic bleach, which is about all I’ve ever seen anyone do … Which makes a lot of sense, as everytime I’ve touched the bottle [...]

I thought of it as answering one of many questions I’ve always had about watersheds and how soon they recovered from obvious trauma. Travelwriter had spied some rising fish in a stretch of the river that was normally bone dry this time of year. Adding 170% more water to the stream means the farming community [...]

I figure my sudden foray into dubbing was like McDonald’s adding salads to an otherwise lard-based menu. How the lights abruptly dimmed and the sudden demand for lettuce left most of the country rediscovering Broccoli for their evening meal. Like the gals and their hair extensions, I was unfazed that I emptied most warehouses of [...]

I have it on good faith that the only reason they wanted the prime saddles for hair extensions is because we put, “No Gurlz Allowed” on the clubhouse door … That’s the last of it honest, we can have the rest.  Technorati Tags: Intruder, ostrich plume eyelash, feather eyelash extensions, no gurlz allowed, fly tying [...]

Those of you old enough to remember Dan White and the Twinkie Defense are about to make bank, but only if you can hold a straight face while being pummeled by Gendarmes and hairless screaming females … No, we’re not interested in a mundane purse snatching, we’re about to score acres of free 12 – [...]

Leave it to friend Leaping Bluegill to disclose the depths of our despair, how deep that hole is, and how our dry flies will be held hostage over the next couple of decades … When it was wives and daughters we were bound by the laws of society,  now that the enemy is a quadruped [...]

It’s like turning on the living room light to find your dog frozen into immobility as he rearranges that warm dent on your sofa cushion. It’s that same shocked expression that’ll bring a smile to your face as you kick his butt off the soft and fluffy … There’ll be shock and amazement aplenty when all those [...]

After three or four months you look down at the handkerchief and the sodden remnant of flaming pink raccoon tail you just sneezed up, and your first thought is about the fly tying “15 minute rule” and whether you’re allowed to recover and rebag it once dry … Thirteen “pillows” of fur isn’t much to [...]

He looked both ways before passing me the baggy, and being as it’s California I didn’t leave it out in the open for prying eyes, quickly tucking the goods into a breast pocket, before returning to the truck whistling innocently. I might have been less eager if I’d known more about songbirds and whether you’re [...]

I guess I’m a bit less notorious with the authorities than the Trout Underground would have you think. In light of my sudden fascination with European Starling and then a mysterious kill of same – with carcasses scattered across most of Sonoma … … the county next door that I never visit, ever. Given a [...]