It is high time we talk about something I hate – people who act like they are about to crap their pants because they caught a fish.
Aside One:  Larry Dahlberg is a good fisherman and over the years I have learned a lot by watching him and reading his articles.   I don’t want to imply that […]

I was standing at the checkout line when I realized something was amiss.
My basket contained a few staples: Cadbury Cream Eggs, Pepsi, and Peanut Butter M&M’s.  I have roughly the same diet as an unsupervised eight year old.  Under the chartreuse feather boa there were two vials of Sally Hansen’s clear nail polish, a couple pearly pink, […]

 
There was a guy I worked with for a few months who asked me to take him fishing.  When I went to pick him up, he came out to the truck, put a cooler in the back, and got in the cab.
“Where’s your gear?” I asked him.
“In the back…”
“No I mean your rod, tackle, that […]

 
One of my very favorite lines in all of literature comes from the epic poem Beowulf. I’ll spare you the Old English.
“Weird oft saves the man undoomed, if his courage is of use.”
Beowulf
I consider these words to be the key to a successful and happy life.  First the hardest concept for a modern audience is […]

Charlie Tuna is a disturbing figure.  Seriously, he is a tuna who advocates the eating of his fellow fish.  This Uncle Tom seems downright giddy at the thought of the naked land monkey’s devouring his friends and family, and vehemently rejects that any of his people’s hated rivals – the dolphins – were harmed during their wholesale slaughter.   Charlie […]

You can steal money, jack cars, and squat in mansions.  The only thing you truly have to earn is knowledge – respect too but the line between fear and respect is blurry at best, and Love you can rent.  Seriously, there is no lottery for knowledge,  no edict a government can pass to make people […]

Depending on where you live, fishing season may have just started, be just around the corner, or, if you are fortunate to live someplace where the water doesn’t become solid, you may have been fishing all along.  Here, in the Northeast after a very long winter, the season finally seems to be beginning in earnest.  Which […]

If you have to be in a room full of mentally ill people, I recommend a fly tying demonstration. Sure Nymphomaniacs Anonymous may seem like the better choice initially, but, ask yourself, if a complete stranger offered you their ChapStick® would you use it?

A group of fly tiers is a collection of parts that […]

There is absolutely no reason to start this post with an image of Taylor Swift.  Well there is the off chance that she will do a google search of herself and discover the “Flyosophy” blog, read it, and fall in love with the mind of its author.  I’m not sure if that is mathematically more […]

For purely awesome movie moments it is hard to beat Charlton Heston.  Seriously, Marky Mark did a remake of Planet of the Apes.  Wahlberg had the benefit of CGI, superior special effects, and the super-HAWT Estella Warren. Heston had only his voice, “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”  I shouldn’t have […]