Angling art takes many forms and covers multiple mediums – yet only the Pristine seems worthy of immortalizing. Us fellows that trod mud amidst the savagery of the rural-urban interface rarely see much celebration of our craft. Recycled milk crates strike a special nerve – mostly because we’ve waded through their neatly ordered phalanxes below bridge [...]

Talk about a “bait and switch” – I was all geared up to insist we all buy it so that our corpse was indistinguishable from the bottom, guaranteeing our watery resting place was undisturbed. Or, the astounding scientific evidence that we’d be invisible to fish were we to slip it over waders… Instead, I’ve stumbled [...]

I’m an unapologetic supporter of the eZine format. Hard copy is good, but eventually they are dog-eared, foodstained, crumpled, and left in the bathroom – where some non-fisherperson seizes them for a quick journey to the trash can. I like them because the online marketplace features content and authors that don’t fit the traditional mold. [...]

It was a bad idea to mention road kill as “a virtually untapped source of quality fly tying materials”. It’s risky enough pulling a barely controllable broadslide in traffic – what with the risk to life and limb coupled with all the cell phone calls I interrupt … Now some sick SOB is gunning for [...]

I’ve told you many times how fly tiers are a bestial lot lacking moral fiber and entirely untrustworthy when it comes to brightly colored wildlife … … all wildlife really … they’re hell on the drab stuff too. A couple of weeks ago Moldy Chum posted about a rare collection of birds pelts lifted from [...]

The print media continues to struggle in the face of the combined onslaught of economy and Internet. We get mighty few clues on how the fishing press is faring as so few are publicly traded. With Reader’s Digest filing Chapter 11, swapping debt for equity with its lenders, and numerous newspapers opting for digital only, [...]

A little environmental voyeurism is in order – and no, you won’t be asked for your credit card number. Webcams abound on the Internet, uniting them as wants to show with them as wants to watch. The University of Washington is playing to the highbrow fetish with the first “Dam Removal Webcam” – front row seats [...]

Fish Can’t Read is the latest in a burgeoning trend of online fly fishing magazines promising to be less trite than traditional angling fare. No expense was spared in sweeping together an eclectic mix of caustic, opinionated burnouts – fresh-faced youth, all buttressed by vast expanses of partially clad salmonids; swathed in the warm colors [...]

As the bloggers whose content is most likely to contain a semi-dressed hardbody – veiled in some really thin fishing angle, in a round about kind of way, and then maybe … You should know I lived your fantasy last night, and it didn’t live up to your steamy advert. The idea has merit; young [...]

As fast as they’re shuttering newspapers we’re getting more goodies to line the coffee table. The Flyfish Journal’s debut is scheduled for August 2009, featuring glossy paper, quality photographs, and the completely useless articles by a bevy of saints, sinners, and the newly converted. We seek images that speak to the soulful eccentricities of fly [...]