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With a long-belly line, your fly spends a greater amount of the time actually fishing. The cast is already made in the time it takes to strip in the running line used on any of the heads.

The Aleutians are mountainous. This area is not the Aleutians but rather the Alaska Peninsula. The north (Bristol Bay) side of the peninsula is low relief. The Aleutians start at Umnak Island a couple hundred miles or so to the west at the end of the peninsula.

I think the Princess would be a bit large for a 4/5 weight rod. If you want to use one of the lightweight series, I'd drop one size down from the Princess and get an LRH. The featherweight is a good match for a 4 weight, but a cane rod might be better with the LRH. Some cane rod aficionados...

That's a decent group. I measure <2" with my calipers held just off the screen (not going to scratch it!) A 2" group @ 200 yards = 1" @ 100 yards = 1 minute of angle. So you're <1 MOA which is pretty darn good. You might do better than that but you might not. Regardless, you want to make...

We do this with salmon. Smoked white king is da bomb canned! GK is right about canning amplifying the smoke flavor. Go easy!

All American makes the best canners, but they're spendy. You see them all over Alaska where canning is part of the annual ritual of putting up food. They seal metal on metal so there are no rubber gaskets to fail at a bad time. They will outlast you. They've got a small book with tips and...

Gone 35 years ago today. Here he is covering another great that was also gone much too soon. RIP SRV.

RIP Flaco Jiménez

A young Janis Joplin covering Buffy Sainte-Marie

We have a pretty new Yamaha F70 outboard. The dealer is helpful with tips for those of us who wish to do simple routine maintenance themselves. The engine oil/filter change is pretty straightforward. The dealer told me that when I change the gear lube in the lower unit to make sure to do...

Rode is a general term and applies to anchor lines made of fiber or wire rope, chain, or any combination. Agree with the above that more info is needed to give a good reply. What sort of boat and ground tackle are we talking about? Loose lines (not just anchor rodes) laying around or piled...

Please, it's an anchor line. The material it's made from is rope. If you don't want to call it a line, you can call it a rode.