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 [...]

  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 a sucker for the dim view, given that economics and temperature mixed with apathy and the potential decline in size of the US government adds up to be  the worst scenario, not the neutral agent others envision. The short version is that a panel of 11 scientists from Colorado State University, Trout Unlimited, the [...]

I keep thinking of the scene from Rocky where he’s ordered to become “greasy fast” by chasing  chickens … … and why there’s liable to be enough young girls running around chasing saddle hackle that their caterwauling will rival the Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan show … I tried to book a flight, figuring [...]