If you’re still intent on impressing your pals that you’re foreswearing jobs and responsibilities, wives, and all other forms of material constraints – how it’s all about the fish, the woods, and damn little else - I’ll call that bluff. There’s little to fear, as outdoorsy trials go you won’t have to do much other than sign a piece of [...]

  That about sums up the “…wouldn’t it be great if she was statuesque, smart, funny, and loved to fish.” Technorati Tags: country music, fishing, craig campbell, fantasy fishing

Would the splintered fiberglass suggest it was the classic “head & tail” rise – or could we claim he was turning the boat in a panic, making him a spinner? … This is a real whale … That’s a real dentist … Actually, that’s a real LUCKY dentist … Technorati Tags: riseform, floating fly, dentistry, [...]

Scientists have finally discovered the reason behind declining worldwide salmon stocks, and the answer will both surprise and alarm … For the first time scientists have discovered that migrating salmon can detect mammalian predators by the scent of already digested salmon in wastewater, which allows the migrating fish to determine whether its safe to move [...]

It’s the trip every guide fears and every father dreads; how to introduce Poppa’s lifelong love to his progeny,  in a way that results in beaming children that gaze at their father in complete adoration … … add the pressure of yesterday’s post, where at this young age we can BUY precious eco-votes for the [...]

  The Good Bad & Ugly swells to a crescendo … just before “Angel Eyes” takes a vocal and noisome powder … It’s coffee out the nose time. Technorati Tags: nothing to do with Fishing

I’m reading how two guides got into a tiff while fishing with clients, and in the ensuing festivities one fellow’s wake nearly pitched four clients into some Texas lake, which nets the pissed off wake-throwing guide arrest, jail, and the chance to post bail. Cruz, released from jail Thursday night on a $1,000 bond, said [...]

It makes for a superb fish story, but as someone who’s had a similar experience, it’s the last thing expected and can certainly send an unwanted shudder through your frame. Kid thinks he’s hooked fish, reels in human foot that comes off the hook just after it’s recognized, triggering search for remainder of body … [...]

The trade magazines are busy writing odes to guides, how they’re an underappreciated yet potential sources of much retail trade, waiting to be exploited by a canny fly shop management team … I wind up scratching my head a lot at the prospect, wondering how once per year makes for an indivisible instructional bond between [...]

Remember that especially gentle and reassuring voice I used when I mentioned, “don’t fear dyeing your precious fur and fibers, as everything is useful for something …” Boy was that a windy. I’m pawing through a drawer full of goodies and see that dusty plastic bag scrunched under all that marabou, and naturally figured it [...]