Recent content by Driftless Dan

If you feel that way, it only speaks to your ignorance of what is going on in this country. The Rule of Law is no more than 47's current whims. In fact, this moment of crisis and this important anniversary make it imperative to point out the direction the nation is taking. This is not going...

Yesterday was the 250th anniversary of Americans overthrowing a despot. We will soon be doing the same thing once again.

Wow, I don't even understand what that all means. .001% of the budget is still money that VOTERS (via their elected officials and government employees hired by those officials) have said they want to go elsewhere. It's a shame, yes, but you vastly misread the public opinion if you think that...

Wow, you guys are making some wild assumptions, attributing all sorts of evil from the government. Of course, you're wildly off the mark. The Washington (and Oregon, and Texas, and every other state) budget is a large and complex document, for lack of a better term. Fishers may get butt-hurt...

My experience took 8 months to unfold, with next to no communication from them until I located both Edge's owner's and Gary Loomis's personal email addresses and contacted them directly. I never did get a tube sock. The first rod arrived broken, wrapped too tightly with rubber bands (since...

A few years ago, I summoned up the courage to ask for permission to fish a stretch of river and was graciously given permission to fish it any time. Only the farmer's family fishes it, as he told me that the only other people who have asked to fish there were guides, which he was not overly...

I love seeing the birds at my feeders, but I am beginning to feel the same way. I don't have rats, "only" squirrels and chipmunks/ground squirrels, and they cause me all sorts of damage digging, eating my tomatoes, etc. I've counted ten squirrels beneath my feeder, which they fortunately...

I live in a suburb of Chicago, but have woods on one side of my property, and a river on one side (with a golf course across the river), so I get a fair amount of wildlife pass by my trail cam. 95% of the critters that cross the camera's path are coyotes, racoons, and possums. I get a few deer...

When I don't know the seller or buyer, I always do face-to-face, and always in the parking lot of the nearest police station, less than a mile from my house. It seems that the "My friend has one of these to sell/wants to buy" scam has been going on for a while and has been pointed out on this...

Probably the best bassist ever, maybe Carol Kayne would argue with this, but...

Interesting. Is this a gimmick, or an advance in rodmaking?

Consider the source, Flymph. If I say anything more, this thread will get locked.

I think I'm very lucky. I've traveled all over the world, lived all over the world, in fact, and during this time, likely 500 flights, never lost a piece of luggage. I hope I don't jinx myself; I'm traveling to Vietnam this month. No fishing, though.

I also use gink on the rare occasions I fish a dry. I have also got a patch of amadou on my lanyard that dries flies out pretty quickly, with no chemical action.

Yeah, I remember those Oregon licenses, about 18 inches long! I haven't gotten one since I left the PNW in 2012, so I'd forgotten.