Travel being the dismal exercise that it is, it’s hard to label today anything but a success.
I wasn’t cavity searched, waited in line no longer than usual (which is still a lot), didn’t avail myself of any airsickness bags, met up with Rich Margiotta — a classy guy and one of my favorite people — […]

Working largely day and night, I managed to get my projects written and shipped, threw a bunch of gear — which may or may not have been the right stuff — into a couple duffles, and headed out of town.
It’s pretty apparent I’ve forgotten some vital piece of gear, but waiting for that “special” moment […]

It’s not enough that “tailing loop” is your fly fishing nickname, or that your friends snicker every time you uncase a fly rod, or even that you once nearly garroted yourself with your own fly line.
Somebody who knows how to cast. We let him fish with us anyway.
No, you need to have your cast recorded on high-speed […]

Via the never-sarcastic crew at GetOutdoors (who got it from the NY Times), we learn of yet another way to get away from it all by leaving absolutely none of it behind: 
Design Within Reach, the furniture retailer, is collaborating with Airstream to develop a trailer for the mobile young modernist —“rock climbers, surfers, dot-com guys,” said Christopher Deam, […]

Here’s a link to a story about the Sacramento demonstration being mounted by the Klamath Indian tribes: Klamath Indians asking to take down PacifiCorp dams - sacbee.com
Indians from Northern California tribes stopped Friday in Sacramento on their way to Omaha, Neb., to ask billionaire Warren Buffett to remove hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River […]

Sure, you may not be able to tell a brookie from a brown, but at least you didn’t pay $1200 for a poodle, only to discover you’d bought a lamb.
This from Spluch: Dog owners ‘fleeced’ in poodle scam

Thousands of people have been ‘fleeced’ into buying neatly coiffured lambs they thought were poodles.
Entire […]

I’m packing for my Tennessee trip (not that I’m rubbing it in or anything) and facing the usual pre-trip terrors.
In the past, I’ve headed off on multi-day trips leaving my wading boots, fishing license, fly boxes (yes) and even my wallet behind.
So what am I going to forget this time? And what’s in store […]

If you’re a grayling, you don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
The Bad News
Astoundingly, the US Fish & Wildlife Service has once again denied species protection (under the ESA) to the fluvial grayling.

It’s clearly a political move; the fluvial grayling qualifies for protection under almost any ESA standard, and if you’ve never heard of the […]

Even though it’s of little import to the largely C&R fly fishing crowd, this weekend is the traditional trout opener on the Upper Sacramento (and in most of the rest of the state).
It means the regulations change from C&R on the entirety of the river to a five-fish harvest (by any angling methods) in Zone […]

Damn! Ass Hooked Whitey beat me to this one; the price I pay for taking on too much work and trying to get out of town.

AHW shot a big harpoon into Donny Beaver of the Spring Ridge Club for comments he made in the club’s January newsletter.
More on that farther down the post. First, I’ve […]

While I’ve focused on fight to remove the Klamath River dams(owned by PacifiCorp) that are throttling the life out of the Klamath’s salmon runs, there’s been a similar battle going on upstream over water rights.
Involved in this battle have been several Native American tribes, environmental groups, PacifiCorp, water users and several government groups.
It’s made […]

I always check in with the Fly Fishing with Mel blog — it’s an interesting Malaysian-based fly fishing blog. While he fishes for species I’ve never heard of, his passion for the sport is pretty clearly the same.

The latest installment is a “must read.”
It’s the first installment detailing Mel’s three-day fishing trip to Lake Kenyir, includes […]