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There’s no candy left, or at least none without fingerprints, and you sucked down the Egg Nog without thought to waistline or ill effects.

You didn’t get the Sage switch rod you were hoping for, nor does it look like it’ll be in your future any time soon.

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Illinois and California are headed for some out-of-the-box thinking, as both states wrestle with a shortfall representing nearly one quarter of their annual budget. As we’ve seen before, both Parks and Recreation and Fish & Game never make the list of sacred cows and are forced to suffer the death of a thousand paper cuts. [...] - [Read more]

It all started with five years spent on graveyard shift. Sleeping during the day and working all night appealed to me in some odd fashion, mostly I attributed my ease at being the only fellow in 48 floors of offices was all the time spent afield, as the quintessential antisocial fisherman. My co-workers never saw [...] - [Read more]

I was convinced the story behind bead headed flies and their speedy domination of the sport was due to fly tiers who dreaded completing that gracefully tapered head, that final step which revealed their skill set even to the casual observer. Weight has always been problematic for fly fishing. The letter of the law allows [...] - [Read more]

It’s part of my New Year’s resolution; less words, more emotion, entirely visual, mostly so I can connect with all them interrupt driven younger fellows …

… and for them as has never received a fly rod for Christmas, it goes something like this …

… only better.

You promised to keep your good humor when the TSA fellow grips your personals and reminds you to cough; with all them little tykes in tow, they don’t want to see Poppa get a last minute Naughty List due to the TSA Grinch.

There’s little I can think of worthy of all the stress and hardship of wintery travel other than the warmth of Ma’s kitchen, and all the good-goods that goes with it …

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Damn thing nearly got me. I was lucky and saw movement in the slack water above me and got out just in time …

Naturally you’ve rushed into the digital universe befriending every dimwit without bothering to check where they knew you from or why they wanted your address. The sudden deluge of farm animal porn in your mailbox was a clue that “liking” the 1100 people that haven’t had sex with goats, might not of been too bright, [...] - [Read more]

It’s the height of old school fly fishing advertisement; private water, a couple US presidents as testimonial, some comment from a noted outdoor author of impeccable credentials, and a brace of tastefully coifed wine wrapped in wicker, something  to put purpose in our “51 year old demographic” stride like only Ben Gay could do … [...] - [Read more]

I can just imagine that old guide turning apoplectic as he explodes at the console, “I don’t want to use no gawd … damned … computer, just gimme my gawd … damned fishing license …” Sorry. In addition to seeing through off colored water and threading a #20 dry fly onto tippet, you may want [...] - [Read more]

Interactive is a bit of a stretch, unless you count licking the postage stamp.

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I’m going to be the unpopular voice suggesting we’re discussing symptoms rather than problems. I’ll be the idiot insisting we’re in a place we shouldn’t be, that we’re arguing elitist snobbery when all the fellow in the white lab coat wants to do is feed the world cheaply. They’ll tell you it’s all about Frankensalmon, but it’s not. Frankensalmon [...] - [Read more]

The farmed fish industry may have gotten a bit of a reprieve from all the heat associated with the Frankenfish, apparently UC Davis researchers claim that while farmed fish are responsible for much of the sea lice the fish must navigate through – there’s less evidence  those self-same lice are responsible for the collapse of [...] - [Read more]

It’s not likely to be in your stocking but some lucky fellow may soon be the owner. One mile of the west bank of the fabled Itchen River in England, featuring stocked brown trout. The trout season runs from early April until early October each year. The main salmon run is predominantly June/July and then [...] - [Read more]

I’m not inclined to be gentle.

Perhaps it’s the degree of the crime that makes me so callous and unforgiving – maybe it’s simple... - [Read more]

It’s apparent that AFTMA is content stonewalling the issue, but as all those emotional fully urbanized types begin to join ranks, will we recognize the peril before we’re all swept off the streets and put to forced labor? It’s quite plain fishing is headed for one of those perfect storms like hunting, bowling, pets, sweaters, [...] - [Read more]

In the 80’s us lay scientists were full of ourselves. We’d embraced the fact that trout ate bugs, that Latin made us sound really intelligent, and the more syllables and body parts we could string together made us irresistible in a social setting. We were “trout geeks” and we ignored pocket protectors in favor of [...] - [Read more]

Twenty years of data is pretty compelling evidence that  streams are akin to the mortgage crisis, we fiddle and tinker with obstructions and flows attempting to guarantee everyone living on their banks isn’t washed away in a flood, when Darwinism may be the better course for landowner and watershed. In studying 3000 watersheds in the US, and [...] - [Read more]

The fun part is you can make every bit as much mess, and your sudden interest in walnut shells won’t be attributable to your fly tying obsession. She’ll think you’re being “extra good” because of the pending holidays, and your sudden desire to crack all those walnuts are merely foreplay for the fruitcake. By my [...] - [Read more]

It’s the end of week eight and the monitor no longer looks edible … After two months of fiery temper, fits of questionable writing (which is really my norm), and short pieces that leave you scratching your head about what I really meant, I figure a confessional is in order … (sob) (sniffle) … I [...] - [Read more]