The clouds did not look very encouraging when dad and I put our kevlar canoe into the water after our first portage. The significant temperature drop, that preceded the clouds, made me wish I had packed my winter sleeping bag. I never thought that I would need it.
After all, it was the the third [...]

I did some brainstorming on this one and came up with a Top 5 List of things you could say that might help you get your wife to enjoy your next fishing excursion with you. Of course many of us have wives that either fish or enjoy fishing with us. If you don’t, let me [...]

I got some photos from Kevin and Ray. Their email said,
” … after working my butt off at the cottage and feeding the Black flies with some fine English Rump, I got a couple of fishing trips on the Little East. You will find the little East FULL of speckled trout up to 10″ right [...]

I enjoy getting to know ‘the heart and soul’ of the author behind the flyfishing books I read. It brings a spark of insight into the words on the pages that you may not have actually gleaned from just reading the book. More often than not, I find that the author is really ‘just’ the [...]

The Practical Fishing website published an article that summarizes the data from experiments completed in Canada and Australia. The data suggests (according to the scientists) that faster growing and more aggressive fish are caught more quickly than slower growing, less aggressive fish. The article states,
The authors attribute the higher harvest of the fast-growing individuals to [...]

The guys over at AEG were kind enough to send me their DVD, Fish Bum 1: Mongolia River Wolf, in exchange for my thoughts on its content. In a few words…

The best fly fishing epic available on DVD!

This is NOT your regular fly fishing dvd that takes place in a ‘more than I can ever [...]

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I am out fishing with the boys tonight and I just caught a monster pickerel (walleye)! We took a couple of photos and measurements and released it quickly. We would have weighed it, but we did not want to take the extra time to do it. It needs to spawn and let someone else catch [...]