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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The latest viral video to sweep the Internet and it’s not angling’s finest hour… I’ve always prided myself on not caring what bit my fly, and with all the goat carcasses and derelict automobiles I thread through – I’m no longer squeamish about what I step in … A couple more of these and a [...]

The scorn of the fly fishing elite we could shrug off, but brownliners as role model for the latest Zombie flick is applying the boots to our prone form. It wasn’t the steady persecution nor threat of harm, our numbers were thinned steadily by enraged spouses wielding bars of Ivory Snow. A fellow can only [...]

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 [...]

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He can’t talk so he wouldn’t rat you out if you’d been skunked. Just smooth out the teeth marks, dry him off, and throw him a Milkbone… I’ve got to get me one of these – sure he’d be a liability, but any flea bit chow hound can do sit and roll over… Technorati Tags: [...]

An 11 minute tour of the restoration efforts for the urban Coho salmon of Marin County. Technorati Tags: coho salmon, lagunitas creek, russian river, restoration