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You know you’re in Northern California when … »

As our travels send us further South to the water consuming counties, we change our spots and adopt all the proper ritual to make us indistinguishable from the locals. Upon our return we notice small things common to the water-bearing provinces that simply don’t manifest themselves in the cold stone canyons of urban California … [...]

The dreaded simple housekeeping post »

Simple housekeeping post, nothing to shrink away from … Item 1: Dry Fly Samples: I sent out 35 samples of dry fly dubbing to anyone who had the request to me before Sunday. As rendering the stuff into final form takes a bit of time, and I enclosed at least three colors for each of [...]

Remember, everytime you drink POM Wonderful a Kitten dies »

I once prided myself on my understanding of Science, but this new stuff is a slow learn. I’m tempted to look at your exam and copy your answers, as I can’t seem to grasp some of these longwinded connections … The Greatest Estuary the world has ever known is dying, with the Delta Smelt simply [...]

Why you’ve never seen it on some other blog, low Babe factor »

  An unlikely subject for a music video – I would have expected love unrequited as a best fit for fly fishing, perhaps some soulful ballad, or even a funeral dirge … Technorati Tags: Active Child, music video, fly fishing, boiled beer

… and just as suddenly we’re arm in arm with those we fear most? »

Congress can’t agree on trimming a nickel from the federal budget, nor can they bring themselves to address any meaningful social issues, certainly not in a timely manner – but they’re determined to blow hell out of the Internet. They must’ve assumed that lacking a face or political affiliation meant the Internet is fair game, yet [...]

Women are fine, girls never, and pals maybe »

I’ve warned you plenty of times – yet still I’m the recipient of your extended digit and pronounced raspberry. The Pied Piper of Taut Flesh keeps you thinking you can mix pleasure and sacred avocation, yet us old guys know better – we tried it and perfection can’t be improved on .. Large fish sipping naturals, a light [...]

Once a constant companion to the fly fisherman, now on hard times »

I expected most of the angling world to be in mourning, yet nary a mention of the possible demise of Wonderbread and the Twinkie, two of angling’s last remaining superfoods … Hostess and fly fishing have an enormous amount of shared lore which has been lost on recent generations due to their insistence on healthy streamside [...]

I’d hoped when I finally found the nuggets on a chicken, there would be a couple feathers no one had ever seen »

It started out as simply a shoulder shrug, but on a whim I was quickly transported from avaricious angler looking to impress his fishing pals to investigative journalist, then onward to devout PETA flag waver … It should have been a no brainer, how I was going to impress fishing pals by serving the remnants [...]

We’ll put up this big electrified fence in the water and see if they can swim through that »

We’re safe for the moment because there’s still an occasional Field & Stream mixed in with People and National Enquirer in the dental waiting area, and it’s inappropriate to hold us Sons of the Greatest Generation accountable for our Poppa’s fixation with archaic blood sports. … then again, all that could change in the blink [...]

Man of the Year is for literates, which of us will grace the cover of GQ is the real question »

It’s one of the great conspiracies of our industry; how SIMM’s, Orvis, Columbia, and Gander Mountain, have spent time and money marketing clothing to anglers, yet only when the catalog falls from our nerveless, napping fingers does our girlfriend insist we buy something … We don’t tell because it would simply kill the bastards to know that only [...]

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