Fishing being a more painful variant of masochism, whose practitioners lust for big fish knowing they’re accompanied by hardship; cold rain, poisonous snakes, blisters, and other trappings of kink, yet are still at a loss to explain its attraction to normal folks. While traveling last week, I did have time to inhale a small salad while [...]

I figure this is a larger lesson for society. The hubbub over perfumed and coifed Wall Streeters gambling with everyone’s 401K is moot for us outdoorsy types. As fishermen we knew whether tarred with the 1% label or granted membership in the other 99%, we’d land on our feet regardless of new economics … Two [...]

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 … [...]