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Time to get “heeled” and do your Governor proud
Our dictionary defines “keeper” not as a fish large enough to eat, but a significant other whose charity feeds our my addiction. … I suppose she could be having a torrid affair with some buff appliance salesman – using this as camouflage, b...
You might be a fishing wienie if
… sure it’s the season of friendship, hope, and orgy of consumerism, yet buried way down deep is still a hint of Christianity … hard to see, but baby Jesus is sandwiched somewheres between that Lexus commercial and all the reasons I need a 54...
Singlebarbed Reviews the Ultimate Stocking Stuffer: The New Scientific Angling, Trout and Ultraviolet Vision
With our faddish nature I’m always surprised fishermen aren’t more fashion conscious. Our weakness has always revolved around something new as a wholesale fix for all our fishing ailments. In the Eighties it was Polypropylene – lighter than ai...
With the aid of a leafy branch you could remove your footprints
On the heels of safe sex comes “safe angling.” No condoms here as you’re already sheathed in rubber … It’s toxin-free angling with hook, line, and sinkers all biodegradable or pose a diminished hazard to ducks, geese, fish, small children...
Big on Yarn but even bigger on frugal
I see one of those “coat of many colors” yarns and I can’t dig the pocketbook out fast enough. The Good News is these mixed-color yarns are all the rage, the Bad News is fashion is capable of turning on its heel quicker than we can respond. ...
Just one economic uptick away from your Fish mobile
Some small segment of the readership gnashed teeth when the news broke of Hummer being sold to a Chinese company. Monstrous vehicles and the taming of wilderness go hand in hand with the fishing ethic .. Most anglers assume that long hikes from the ...
Rivers of a Lost Coast released to DVD
You saw it, you loved it, and now you can drive the wimmenfolk batty with the original DVD, or merely the soundtrack – or both. Rivers of a Lost Coast has been released on DVD, available for $29.95 from the folks at Skinny Fist Productions. It’s...
The Ekich Rotary Bobbin
Seeing a new wrinkle in any of our traditional regalia has always piqued my interest. Cameron Mortenson at the Fiberglass Manifesto (via Moldy Chum) sent me a little tidbit figuring it would whet the creative juices. The idea of a $100 fly tying bob...
Things that dispense noisily that Bears won’t eat
It’s one of many angling axioms, how the outdoors-fishing ritual guarantees some unnatural food tucked away in a vest, or cooler, and daylighted with great trepidation knowing the catcalls and scorn that will greet luxury items from those roughing...
Why we’re never consulted on game design
I’ve got more than my fair share of hideous vices but gambling hasn’t been one of them… … actually I should retract that, as fishermen are among the most egregious gamblers known, we risk time, money, and domestic bliss on every throw of the...
That 70’s cloth none of us admit to wearing? That shortened your life too
I figure it was some great sin in a past life – nothing newsworthy or famous, just some callous Lothario that fleeced spinsters of their birthright, some real estate wunderkind that unloaded worthless railroad right-of-way by foreclosing on wid...
The Prodigal Son Returned, Partridge of Redditch
Recent developments in Europe has the Partridge Hook company returning to UK ownership. Purchased by Fishing Matters, manufacturers of the Varivas and Order hooks. We can only hope for a return to the esoteric greatness of the past, as Partridge wa...
Where we make like Imelda Marcos and still spend the night on the couch
The telltale squeal of feminine voices has me tightening my grip on Sweetpea’s arm, an attempt to steer her clear of a consumptive orgy while maintaining possession of wallet, credit cards, and our immediate destiny. We’ve inadvertently stumbl...
Nice to know I can buff out my paw prints
It’s one of many shortcomings in my personality, but I cannot help but admire those anglers that eye the conventional, scratch their chin and opt to blaze new trails. The results aren’t always successful, but the “what if I …” question is w...
Book Review – Tying Catskill Style Dry Flies
I’ve always likened the traditional dry fly as the fly fishing equivalent of the Japanese Tea ceremony. You can tie a million of them and the number of times you’re pleased with the result you can count on one hand. Double-divided quill wings spi...
What’s up, Dawg?
Us native Californian’s pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the next great trend – even marginal ones, just so we’re seen as holding up our end… … and a pear shaped angler trudging through creek bottom just doesn’t offer the same...
Will the Wooldom conquer our fear of Winter Steelhead?
I get envious when I see a grinning angler holding a yard or more of dripping chrome. I realize he’s still under the influence of all that adrenaline – which makes the grin appear natural… It isn’t. The poor SOB spent half a day in frozen sl...
Fishouflage, so your kid can wear it to his Prom
Talk about a “bait and switch” – I was all geared up to insist we all buy it so that our corpse was indistinguishable from the bottom, guaranteeing our watery resting place was undisturbed. Or, the astounding scientific evidence that we’d be...
“Less is More” holds for both writing and hot weather wading
Now that the prototype has dried out I can claim that it runs in the family. Idiocy mostly, but occasionally us Singlebarbed menfolk come out of the kitchen clutching some napkin-based idea that’s been done seventeen times before yet lacks military...
Singlebarbed debuts the “Sixth Finger” Scissor – Can fly tying be improved by a fellow with mud between his toes?
My childhood was interspersed with some family member saying, “Hmm” and disappearing into the basement to craft the “John Wayne Super-Sport Rubberband Gun” – allowing me to cut a swath through the opposition forces which were armed with ant...
The Wader Cooler, only raises your voice by a couple octaves
Sure I’m blushing, I keep scratching chin trying to figure whether it’s an icy male “enhancement” or whether I can mount it on the vest and pipe the exhaust down a leg. It’s new life for the neoprene waders we’ve got stashed in the clos...
Is the Noose tightening on Abel Automatics Inc?
We’ve mentioned in past posts that Abel Automatics Inc., maker of the Abel reel, has their destiny intertwined with the Bernard Madoff scandal. Abel Holdings LLC owns Abel Automatics – and both Andrew and Mark Madoff are principals for Abel Hold...
I just need regular rubber, the creek provides the Sticky
I was doing the math on the current set of hip boots and rather than pooch out the lower lip claiming I’d been used cruelly, I realized that my seasons are a bit different than most… The left boot was taking on water from both heels and soles, I...
Danville’s Monocord discontinued
A couple hundred thousand fellows will be gnashing teeth yet again – compliments of the Danville Chenille Company and their decision to discontinue their venerable 3/0 Monocord. There are plenty of finer threads so it’s no catastrophe, but it’s...
Reykjavik Whale Watching, the Old Spice sailor does slasher flick
Most of our angling rituals could be construed as a preamble for a good “slasher” film – starting with the pre-dawn rending of eggs and pig-flesh, and ending with the post-sunset rending of whatever-is-still-open. PETA regards us as bestial ves...
Bandals, the next great stride in outdoor wading gear
While the crowd eschews felt soles and impresses each other insisting, “I wore rubber back when rubber wasn’t cool “ – note we’ve gone back to the drawing board to re-invent “no-tech” wading… Gone are those silly laces that neatly str...
Simpler just to rub your face in the gut pile
If the goal is to touch up the eyes I’d think grabbing the carcass and sawing it across your face would brighten your complexion better. Enough scales drying delicately around your brow and you’re guaranteed to be the toast of the gravel bar. If ...
Singlebarbed’s Gear Review, the Redington RS4 – Rise 5/6
I’ve had the luxury of testing a Redington RS4 9′ #6 the last couple of weeks, complimented by a matching Redington Rise 5/6 reel. I managed to paint some algae on it from a half dozen tepid backwaters, including the Little Stinking and S...
Waders Bamboo Rods and Radiator hoses
Few items are as indispensable to fishermen as duct tape, but it too may have succumbed to advanced helical technology and high modulus with the debut of Rescue Tape. • Incredible 700 PSI Tensile Strength! • Insulates 8,000 Volts per layer! • W...
When seven minutes buys you a couple extra decades
Us semi-pro eBay reel collectors are occasional victims of unchecked avarice – greed mostly. The pictures omit the missing screw, the bent rim, and the seller that’s hoping you won’t notice an unsightly wobble or loose spool. That&#...
