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Gloabal warming my sweet @$$

March 14, 2008

Ok I know it is really now called Global Climate Change and I know you can't base long term options on short term trends but with this past hard winter I am feeling the cabin fever even more. Maybe I need to do my part and get a diesel 4WD dually...

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Fly Shops or Fly Departments

March 25, 2007

I always wonder why some shops will order equal amounts of 'everything' I mean there are 3 colours of most items that are used way more than others. It stuns me when they stock 3 purple, green, red yellow as well as black, brown and olive. I mean we use...

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Taking and giving credit

January 16, 2007

I find it funny and sad when folks take credit for inventing a fly (or anything really). Sometimes they really believe they have done something new with a mere material substitution. Sometimes they have worked in a vacuum and when they put there head up refuse to admit  that they...

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It is a miracle that anyone fly fishes here

November 24, 2006

In Manitoba that is.  

I think the story of fly fishing in this province is a tale of the power and attraction of the past time itself. We don't have the trout streams (on which so much of fly fishing propoganda is focused) and yet we have decades of history. ...

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Here is a place

November 22, 2006

For thoughts too small for an article or BB post...which I have a lot of ;)


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