Another eZine entrant, this time from Germany (available in English), entitled Scale – and covering both fly and spin fishing. They’ve got the best logo I’ve seen – considering the topic matter, and I’m a sucker for reading about someone that catches fish – instead of whining about how woeful their season has become like [...]

Considering us fishermen and our lack of social graces, even computer nerds have better luck with the fair sex than us. Six or seven marriages later, you’re handing over everything that wasn’t spent on backing and fly reels, and asking your buddies to help move your fly tying desk, as it’s perched prominently on the [...]

It’s certain to alter my eBay experience and while the bricks and mortar side of the tackle business will likely retaliate with skimpy dressed sandwich-board waving nubiles, Grandma and the local constabulary will make short shrift of a vendor that succumbs to temptation. She claims her earlier sales were cancelled due to a violation of [...]

I can just imagine that old guide turning apoplectic as he explodes at the console, “I don’t want to use no gawd … damned … computer, just gimme my gawd … damned fishing license …” Sorry. In addition to seeing through off colored water and threading a #20 dry fly onto tippet, you may want [...]

It’s not likely to be in your stocking but some lucky fellow may soon be the owner. One mile of the west bank of the fabled Itchen River in England, featuring stocked brown trout. The trout season runs from early April until early October each year. The main salmon run is predominantly June/July and then [...]

A reminder that Lang’s will feature their Fall 2010 auction this weekend. I counted about 250 rods available, ranging from Horrocks & Ibbotson to Paul Young, F.E. Thomas, and a number of older Orvis rods, both cane and fiberglass. I always enjoy paging through all the old gear, and am always fascinated by the fish [...]

All I had to do was read any of my past posts to recognize “I don’t measure up”, yet PETA had to send me a zinger just the same … They’re on the warpath, and with the death of the UK’s famous “Two Tone” carp, PETA erected a billboard to chastise local anglers … I’ve [...]

I had wondered whether the e-zine phenomena was a reflection of the US fly fisherman and the paucity of quality reading material we’re forced to endure. With a blizzard of product surfacing, it might be that us colonials are practiced at grass-roots insurrection, and therefore unashamed to show our collective discontent. Then again, it may [...]

Just a quick reminder that the Three Months of Summer contest is drawing to a close over at the Fishy Kid website. Four categories with kids seventeen and under eligible for some nice prizes. All that’s required is to upload a picture of your beaming child and his catch. … and it’s not the traditional [...]

While we’ve taken great pains to illuminate dozens of devices to clear your riffle of unwanted interlopers, it’s time to spread some love to the stillwater crowd, how they no longer need to endure sand kicked in their sandwich by insensitive power boat Nazi’s …. If you’re getting sick from bobbing in other’s wake, and [...]