Yet another reason to fiddle with caustic chemicals and satanic dyeing ritual; when the French Press dies an ignoble death after being rapped too harshly on the sink – you’re only mildly put out … Two fur strainers and a paper towel, and Starbuck’s is a distant memory. With the entire angling world returning from [...]

Looking at all those little packs of dubbing and gauging capacity were I to wad them into a single container. Nearby are the zip loc bags groaning under the stress of a couple ounces of custom dyed, blended, or curried fur … The catalog offers either the 64 ounce or the 128 ounce size, nicely uniform [...]

No, I don’t expect you to understand the attraction, being a San Francisco native  and growing up in the halcyon days of local football imparts a special reverence. “ I don’t want to go fishing with Roger Craig, I want to have his Love Child.” In or out of wedlock, it don’t matter… Now that he’s [...]

It’s one very poor argument for nuclear power. While biologists pump steroids into trout eggs to boost muscle mass, it might be simpler just to use the hatchery pond as the coolant for a small nuclear reactor … Some five years ago the Russian nuclear attack submarine Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea. The event [...]

It’s bad enough they’ve had to exhume Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow six or seven times – largely due to the vibrations of them turning in the grave was scaring school kids. … and major networks have to use slogans like, “fair and balanced”  to remind themselves why they’re filming some powdered milquetoast in the [...]

Waterproof and breathable is so yesterday, along with all that Extreme you hoped to find. Simm’s will never recover and it seems water repelling rubber soles are the new aesthetic  - with both cleats and felt discarded out of hand. Likewise for fly rods and Tenkara, as the real aficionados will be touting bare knuckle. … and [...]

Once the Madison Ave boys kick the campaign into high gear we’ll all be lining up for “Kentucky Tuna.” They’ll have to pull the White Lightning from school lunches, but what child doesn’t gaze adoringly at his Momma when offered a Tuna sand … The pearly white flesh – complicated by a series of bones [...]

Six weeks of rehab isn’t changing anything, it’s just celebrity traffic school for first offenders. Like the Phoenix, recently emerged and armed with the verve of the righteous, we’re supposed to wear our addictions like the Albatross, around the neck. Proof positive that we’ve licked the Beast, or at least that’s what our press agent [...]

There’s a cadre of coaches to groom candidates on the smallest of details – and what’s blurted out during the primary is refined into easily digestible sound bytes for the election. Some hideous side of my character has always wanted a presidential election to rest solely on the angler vote. Perhaps it’s because we can [...]

Breakfast will be a bit of a liability, but I can just point out the cars in the parking lot with coolers.  While he’s separating the body and chassis by way of the ripped off door, I’ll be cleaning my fingernails and keeping an eye out for cops. “Big Fluffy” as a sidekick kind of opens the field [...]