An unlikely subject for a music video – I would have expected love unrequited as a best fit for fly fishing, perhaps some soulful ballad, or even a funeral dirge … Technorati Tags: Active Child, music video, fly fishing, boiled beer

  The idea shows occasional flashes of brilliance, and no one should give you that tired old catch & release lecture … it just seemed so much easier on the X-Box  … Technorati Tags: asian carp, sushi, wolverine, ninjas

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 [...]

… sure we poo-poo wild claims of fellow anglers, but that was in those hardship years of your youth, pre-Silverfin. The water was clear, the fish were refined and a meal was skill-based and the work of an evening. Now angling will be removing the muffler off your wife’s Subaru and driving along the levee [...]

The Daily Flypaper blog posted a fascinating video of the 1.3 million dollar fly tying system from Intuitive Surgical… … which is a bit misleading, it’s actually an Intuitive Surgical robot showing off what it can do. ISRG has been the darling of Wall Street for a number of years, considered best of breed for [...]

The first in a series on the Water Wars of California …   … and the rebuttal. The solution is simple, put human life above all other life… Putting Americans at risk and increasing our dependence on foreign foods? Isn’t that the same thing if we’re forced to import fish?

Twelve cylinders of high performance versus two hander, redefining the urban angler permanently. (via Wandle Piscators ) Tags: wandle piscators, workhardplayhard.com, ferrari, spey

Little wonder that your typical Brownliner can get a little overbearing and evangelical, our beloved fish are tortured without mercy – just because they can be … … and while you smack your lips in anticipation of the still beating heart – spleen or other choice viand, what you don’t know is our fish fight [...]

Only 109 seconds to master both human nature and entomology. You’ll master aquatic, terrestrial, learned behavior – and be able to relate to your children as never before. No need to thank me, it’s what I do … Warning: Don’t drink coffee while watching, it may come out of your nose. … and all my [...]

I want to call him Wil E. Coyote – what with tiptoeing around a couple thousand pounds of hungry bear to snatch dinner … There’s a slim chance you could train a black Labrador to do something similar. It would at least give the worthless flea-bit lump a chance to earn his keep in between [...]