… 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 with [...]

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 computer [...]

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 )
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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 to [...]

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 taxpayer dollars were [...]

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 [...]

While the rest of you are droning on about weights and tapers, modulus and action, I’ll be downstream ….
… just me and my Blue Water Barbie.
Via John Merwin and his Honest Angler blog, comes an eye opening video of a fellow catching a 100 pound blue shark on bright pink Barbie rod, complete with closed [...]

If you’ve ever wondered about the inner workings of the genetic hackle business – how years of careful selection and good genes yields those yard-long saddle hackles and expensive rooster necks – you won’t find any of that here…
Instead, we’ll show you how those lengthy saddles are harvested, and how trained specialists size and select [...]

A German company unleashes tiny winged advertising on conventioneers, is this a portend of what fly shops will be springing on us come Opening Day?

 
The exploitation of farmed mayflies, each dancing about with a gaily colored banner, “A #16 Royal Wulff would’ve caught that fish, now on sale at Big 5.”
Bug activity has always been a [...]