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 [...]

The concept is sound, I donate 99% to the care and feeding of your lifestyle, you return 1% to something that allows underprivileged kids to kill even more fish… Is that what you meant by angling charity? My Inbox is a steady stream of anglers whose high dollar sunglasses perch fetchingly on carefully rolled curly-brim, who insists [...]

I’m not inclined to be gentle. Perhaps it’s the degree of the crime that makes me so callous and unforgiving – maybe it’s simple jealousy that he was born with a silver spoon and I wasn’t, in either case I’ll not shed a single tear for another rich prick that eats rope. In a twisted [...]

It’s the end of week eight and the monitor no longer looks edible … After two months of fiery temper, fits of questionable writing (which is really my norm), and short pieces that leave you scratching your head about what I really meant, I figure a confessional is in order … (sob) (sniffle) … I [...]

I’m the fellow that leaped off the couch signaling a “wave off” … frantically gesticulating while your diatribe continues unabated … “Yea, it’s great I showed the shop some of my flies and they want me to tie for them it’s great I get a big discount on all my stuff 40% off on rods [...]

I’m one of those skeptical fellows that grows more so with each article on invasive species and the proposed felt sole ban. We’ve all seen plenty of “trust me” science and the rise of the conclusive inconclusive finding, and I’m beginning to doubt that the facts support a ban. It started innocently enough, with New [...]

I was gazing fondly at the salmon report for 2009, wherein the Pacific Fisheries Management Council claims, “… the ocean’s are what done it!” There’s a passing reference to the continued decline of freshwater assets throughout California, and how the entire salmon run has the biodiversity of Velveeta cheese – wild fish essentially extinct and [...]

Tom Chandler published a short piece on the struggles of some of our older, venerable rod companies, how the downturn in the economy was forcing layoffs and depressing sales. Tom asked for comments.   Dear Rod Company Executive, Recently I’ve learned of the downturn in the economy and the Hard Times that will surely follow. [...]

Anglers may be able to fix the economy their ownselves, all that’s needed is minor modifications in their conduct to save Wall Street and get Congress off the hook. Economic Recovery via original thought – from outside the Beltway.

The Top 10 items that transformed fishing forever would have to include the pop top beer can. I can’t fathom what the Wall Street Journal or the American Sportsfishing Association were thinking. A list of the Top 10 fly fishing breakthroughs would have to include instant coffee or divorce, or both.