By KBarton10 on Aug 13, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing, fly fishing humor | 7 Comments
Some suggest the Mecha-Fish might be used for the forces of Good, leading schools of fish away from oil spills, or other form of toxic calamity. As we aren’t among those silly do-gooders, I’d suggest a haversack full of AA batteries, red lipstick smeared fetchingly on the front, then released to bring that school of [...]
By KBarton10 on Aug 10, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing, humor | 0 Comments
Sure it’s morbid, but knowing all of the scientific hijinks involved haven’t you wondered what they were going to call it? … a leading producer of functional, sustainable Tilapia biomass … With the Food & Drug zealots insisting it has to respire to be called “fish” – and the animal welfare crowd insisting it has [...]
By KBarton10 on Jul 28, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing, current events, environment | 0 Comments
Another in a long list of reports on Delta water use, the state’s best and brightest suggest that 75% of the rain and snowmelt of the Sacramento and San Joaquin watersheds must flow through the Delta and into San Francisco Bay to maintain ecological equilibrium. True to form the report was met with great skepticism [...]
By KBarton10 on Jul 22, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing, humor | 2 Comments
It’s the Third Rule of the sporting fraternity, in the retelling of any feat of sporting prowess, add two inches (or a half pound) in case your audience has heard this yarn already … Adherence to the 3rd Rule ensures your friends and neighbors never tire of your oratory – you never repeat yourself either [...]
By KBarton10 on Jul 9, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing, fly fishing humor | 3 Comments
It’s a fact that only chance collocates decent fishing with anything resembling cuisine. At best there’s the local flavor of greasy spoon, a fast food franchise or two, and a local pizza parlor – at worst, there’s whatever you left in the motel refrigerator supplemented deftly by the minimart. The evening hatch dooms us to [...]
By KBarton10 on Jul 1, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing, humor | 9 Comments
Known galaxy-wide for our sympathetic stewardship, us Homo Sapiens having the accidental good fortune of eating everything above us on the food chain, so what do we do with an inferior species teetering on the brink? … do we pause and reflect, right innumerable wrongs, or merely gash ourselves over our lack of foresight in the indiscriminate use of [...]
By KBarton10 on Jun 30, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing, current events, fly fishing humor | 3 Comments
The recently leaked footage of the next generation of Predator Drones has the fishing world in an uproar. Gone are the propeller driven noisy mosquitoes of yesteryear, in their place comes the sneaky-quiet atmosphere fish … the Rainbird Trout… … meanwhile the Defense Department is a mass of denials, claiming the video of the device [...]
By KBarton10 on Jun 24, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing, product | 10 Comments
Top 10 lists be damned, the greatest advancement to fly fishing ever invented is about to debut – and us old mean bastards can take our rightful place in the riffle undeterred by all the energy drink antics around us … … assuming we still have good balance, naturally … According to PixelOptics the patented [...]
By KBarton10 on Jun 8, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing, environment | 2 Comments
The National Academy of Sciences claims the “filthy rich” are living up to their moniker, as population density and per capita income are corresponding closely with the volume of invasive species in Europe – more closely than climate, geography, or physical barriers to species introduction. … which shouldn’t be that startling, as rich countries have [...]
By KBarton10 on Jun 7, 2010 in Nothing to do with Fishing | 2 Comments
Singlebarbed is being moved to a new Internet Service Provider. It’s the guinea pig for all of the Trout Underground’s vast Internet empire. Should all go smoothly, the silliness will resume tomorrow.