Decided to get back to Flyosophy’s roots: finding tenuous reasons to post pics of beautiful women with musical talent.  Playing the piano is probably the third hottest thing a woman can do fully dressed…I’ll leave it up to your imagination to discover the second.  Naturally, the first is making a Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf. Back to […]

There is an old adage in education. One can only teach those willing to learn.  Like most sayings, it is true to a point.  Back when I was a teacher you would hear this primarily as an excuse for poor test scores.  The inverse of this is also true, to a point.  That if a […]

2009 has not been my best year, and I doubt I’ll be sad to see it go. 
I rang in 2009 on a snow covered highway with a flat tire.  I had been working and there are a few things about my job which you should know to fully appreciate what happened next.  I essentially work […]

 
Seriously, let’s look at the Holiday Season in a little more depth, specifically the five major holidays which of which the season is comprised: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, and New Years Day.   
Christmas is the big daddy of the season, in fact it is likely Kwanzaa or Festivus would not even exist without it, and […]

I can remember the very first fly I ever tied. 
Not physically tied of course.  My father had me sitting in front of a vise literally before I can remember.  When other kids were watching Big Bird with joy and love, I was pondering how best to murder him and use his feathers to hackle Seaducers.  […]

Senior Class Superlatives – as if the high school years weren’t hard enough on an adolescent’s sense of security.  I posted this dusty pic of the Flyosopher wearing his patented (D447,556) ”Douche-Face” not to brag, but to pose a question.
Who truly was the “Most Likely to Succeed?”  The picture shows two students, which is grammatically impossible […]

There are a lot of things people take for granted.  Family, health, the freedom to act like a moron are just a few of these things.  I have come to believe that this is a good thing in many ways.  Consider your health, people who take their health for granted are generally out and about […]

The false albacore is a special fish. 
In some ways the false albacore is the polar opposite of the striped bass.  The striper is a fish which can hunt and thrive in virtually any conditions.  The false albacore is a fish that does one thing to perfection.   That thing is speed.  A false albacore feels like polished glass, […]

If posed the question:  Do you tie flies to catch fish, or do you fish to test out your flies, I would be hard-pressed to answer – honestly it is a stupid question – but I feel that the most truthful answer is I fish to test flies.  I love watching a fly in the […]

“The measure of a man is not in how he deals with success, but in how he handles failure.”
Paul Stanton – The Flyosopher’s High School principal
Don’t worry I’m actually planning on writing a bit about sight fishing, but first let’s consider failure.  I think that if society has made one glaring mistake it is in […]