Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from taking action on public lands which impede the border security activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) (Secretary). States that the Secretary shall have immediate access to any public land managed by the federal government in order to conduct activities that [...]

Nearly twice a year I’m required to join the rest of society for a weekend of normality – foreswearing hooks and tinsels, muddy creek bottoms, mashed sandwiches, and foul language. In addition to the demise of the neatly tapered whip finish, most of us 99%’ers require a plastic container and paper label extolling the leaden [...]

While completely contemptuous of the current congress, I was surprised to learn that in addition to insider trading, ignoring any real responsibilities and the President, they have a sportsman’s fraternity – a caucus actually – where they can pontificate on all the reasons they love Mother Nature, so the carbon lobby feels obliged to add [...]

The consumer be damned, what’s important is the IGFA will have proper protocol for certifying all them lab-induced trophies we can look forward to in the coming millennia …   As every watershed could wind up whelping mongrel fish; escapees from fish farms mating frantically with whatever genetic material is pumped into the overly warm trickle [...]

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, [...]

Is it a vast conspiracy of vendors dictating to a few well meaning, yet chronically underfunded conservation agencies, and can this omission of information be the final straw we need to demonstrate our collective frustration in a molten pool of self-immolated 6X tippet? For years we’ve been serenaded by all them pale, veggie-loving scientists about our thoughtless spread of Quagga and [...]