While not yet recovered from a bout of the flu, I am catching up on some reading – both print and online.

Great posts abound; Daytripper returns with Black Friday fly fishing, Roughfisher chews a little industry arse, Fishing Jones ponders dress code, but the best may be from Turning Over Small Stones – who’s tackling the smart trout myth …

We’re all familiar with the Theory, we’ve debated it over campfires, well drinks, and dimly lit motel rooms – is it the all-pervasive destiny of a decade of Catch and Release regulations, are fish really smarter?

We tend to grant intelligence and savvy only when bested, but is it “streem smart” fish or merely a combination of skills, limited fly selection and failing eyesight that confounds us?

The print media is clearly on the ropes – what with the Tribune bankruptcy as posterchild for declining dead-tree readership. So many great topics steadfastly avoided by our angling media – it’s not surprising to see why the eyeballs are flocking to the Internet.