Wrath of Atlantic Weather?
Striped bass can’t catch a break these days. According to a recent piece by NPR catches are down again, and some biologists say the problem may be more weather induced than overfishing related this time.
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Winter’s Itch
We had the winter itch. It needed to be scratched. So scratch we did. I’m not usually big into winter fishing. I’ve spent the vast majority of my life’s winter months in the mountains—riding a snowboard. It’s not I’m against fishing in the winter, it’s simply that I like being on the side of a…
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Biscayne Bay Goes Pop
The mysterious 650-pound grand piano left on a sandbar at Biscayne Bay will stick around for encore presentations as the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has no plans to move it.
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The Ol Bitch Slap/Fish Slap
MICHIGAN—Ice fishing is a dangerous affair. In addition to frostbitten digits, and falling asleep and spilling your drink, you can now add being “fish slapped” to your list of fears.
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Mayfly Bling
For $2,200 you can now own what might be the world’s most expensive mayfly. According to the Ebay listing, we’re looking at a Lithuanian Ephemeroptera Heptageniidae Needaham. Translation: Shiny, dead spinner. Place your bids after the jump.
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Hangover in a Can
We hope you’re as excited as we are. Behold, straight from Panama (a country synonymous with fine single malts) we bring you canned Scottish Spirits.
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This is Fun, Right?
Has this whole thing become just a little overly serious? It’s hard to imagine, but I continue seeing far too many anglers on the river who can barely be distracted to acknowledge a fellow angler, focused on the serious task at hand, or treating others like competition. Those who give the look of suspicion, as…
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Georgia’s $14 Million Fish Fix
PERRY, GA—The Go Fish Georgia Education Center is a massive new fishing museum with interactive models and bream and bass swimming in aquarium-size tanks. Its pre-recession sites were aimed at generating tourism buzz, but a $14 million price tag has left critics questioning the merits of its ongoing state-funded expenditures.
Photog Fed Live Penguins
ANTARCTICA—Although we, too, have been mistaken for helpless and hungry, penguin sashimi has yet to enter the equation. Paul Nicklen documents his recent encounter with a highly intuitive leopard seal in this series of photographs.
5 Minutes with Faceless
As far as we know there are NO fish in Alberta. Faceless Fly Fishing does its best to prove us wrong with this tits 5-minute video.
Oak Orchard Fly Shop
There are two types of fly shops out there, destination and local. Oak Orchard Fly Shop defiantly falls into the latter category. Of course this was not always the case.
X-Mas Leftovers Are Fish Friendly
In addition to bonfires and launching them off the balcony (into the neighbor’s backyard), aquatic habitat projects have become increasingly popular destinations for leftover Christmas trees.
X-Mas Leftovers Are Fish Friendly
In addition to bonfires and launching them off the balcony (into the neighbor’s backyard), aquatic habitat projects have become increasingly popular destinations for leftover Christmas trees.
Chef Ramsay is a Super Sleuth
From what we’ve seen of Gordon Ramsay’s TV antics, there’s no limits to the douchebaggery of Britain’s top cooking nitwit. The chef was recently doused in gasoline and held at gunpoint while “investigating” illegal shark fishing in Costa Rica. We’re just surprised no one’s tried to kill him sooner.
Surface Film
The Greenbacks, a newly formed group of young, passionate Colorado TU members, are hosting the Surface Film photography exhibit through the month of February 2011 in the heart of downtown Denver’s Santa Fe Art District.
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Tailwater Weekends: Pueblo Dam
Winter is tailwater time in Colorado. Today’s Denver Post explores the Arkansas river below Pueblo Dam, where it finds a mix of risers amidst habitat improvements sparked by the Pueblo Arkansas River Corridor Legacy Project.
Resolution #142: Less Gas
Forced to choose, we’d rather ride a Prius than a sheep. (You know what they say, What happens in New Zealand….) Thanks to an Israeli ad for the Toyota Prius, we’re told that its emissions produce markedly less ozone eaters (GHGs) than nature’s wooly buggers and their methane toxic “exhausts.”
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Adventure: Lost its Cojones?
By and by contemporary adventure has fallen victim to marketing hype and pricey handheld pursuits dressed up in the guise of doing something dangerous. Time to man up, man. In this case that means more life, death and, perhaps, loincloths.
Photo Contest: The One that Got Away
The One That Got Away is a common, haunting theme in flyfishing. We’ve fished through many examples: the brown that chowed our Home Invader, hauled a mile upstream, never to be seen again; and the ill-fated fishing poses of uncooperative SOBs that kick wake in your face in the midst of capturing the “shot of…
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NatGeo Does Bristol
The December issue of National Geographic magazine has a 25-page feature on Bristol Bay and the Pebble Mine controversy titled “Alaska’s Choice: Salmon or Gold”. On the page facing the table of contents, Tiffany & Co. placed this full-page ad stating the company’s thoughts about Bristol Bay. “All that the American West once was, Alaska still is.…
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Snow Proves Hazardous For Idiots
With passengers still stranded after Chersnowbyl buried New York City airports and other Eastern hubs earlier this week, here’s a lesson to all the idiots out there.
The Haul Hits Literary Speed Bump
Author David James Duncan (The River Why) recently joined forces with the All Against the Haul campaign—a grassroots, four-state effort working to stop the construction of a permanent industrial corridor for oversized loads to the Alberta Tar Sands through Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. All proceeds from his new book The Heart of the Monster,…
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Drinking Olympics: Rules
If you find yourself lonely and sober over the holiday season, Esquire Magazine has the remedy. Its simple yet satisfying drinking game for drinking’s sake requires little more than you, a bottle, and a warm seat at your favorite local establishment.
Charlie’s FlyBox
Digging into Charlie’s, the 6-year-old Arvada, Colorado flyshop mainstay, is akin to entering the box of a tying master. But instead of perusing a dozen rows of meticulously filled C&F foam slits, you’ve stumbled into a dream selection of 2,400 fly bins filled
Top 10 Adventure: 2010
Outside Magazine recently listed its top-ten adventure stories of the year. Highlights include the heists, high times, and eventual capture of the Barefoot Bandit, Colton Harris-Moore, as well as the tragic death of South African kayaker, Hendrik “Hendri”
Fishing the Dirty Dishwater
New York animator Jared D. Weiss is among many things a “Cartoonist. Animator. Graphic Artist. Writer. Nerd. Detective. Comedian?” For his latest assignment he looks to the bowels of the kitchen sink to tackle fly fishing from a highly literal perspective.
Read This
In addition to rocking turtlenecks and stroking hot toddys by the fire, ’tis the season for some good winter reading. Field & Stream’s Joe Cermele runs down a handful of favorites, including Sowbelly by regular Drake contributor Monte Burke, and David Kinney’s excellent exposé The Big One chronicling conspiracy and intrigue at