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Anyone else get the feeling the points NOT being scored are going to become a problem at some point tonight? Sure hope not, but....

I've gone the opposite direction and almost never fish tippet lighter than 5x anymore. If I can get 4x through the hook eye, I usually stop there. I have heard the Fall River is flat out spooky, so I can believe it might be necessary to go smaller there. I think my biggest "change" over the...

I suggest leaving the boat at home and getting out there on foot. The fish are still there, and minus 10 boats pounding every productive spot before you can get there, the success rate from the bank usually goes up significantly. I like to float as much as anyone, but when you can't do that...

Great game. Pretty cool seeing the likes of Indiana and Ole Miss in the semifinals.

This Georgia-Ole Miss game is surprisingly entertaining! Much better than the earlier games today.

Beautiful lake fish! 10-ish trout is solid work this time of year. I did some river fishing this week. I mostly caught and released big, fire truck buck coho, but I did score a nice little hatchery chromer steelhead on the 27th. First fish of 2026 was another colored-up coho. Beautiful...

Texas alum here. I was surprised both teams put out a pretty good effort despite a bunch of starters "opting out." College football has officially been relegated to the NFL minor league at this point, which is a shame. Game got ridiculously chippy in the second half. Lots of dumb penalties on...

Good idea! Straws are handy for lots of things. I've achieved "good enough for the fish" with a Sharpie by tying in the feather, gathering the fibers, attaching a good set of hackle pliers to the end, and pulling tight. Kind of the same principle.

Heck of a game. Not much defense for either team, but the 49ers made the play they needed at the end. Here we go....

Yeah, you get that a lot when the Cowboys and the Lions are staple teams. I guess the Lions aren't mathematically eliminated yet, so there's that. Throw in a bunch of hurt QBs and take away the playoff implications and it's time to watch Christmas movies.

Happy holidays, all! Kiddos are coming fo dinner tonight, and it looks like Santa came through on my wish and will be providing a bunch of fishable days while I'm on vacation. Good tidings!

I recommend a 5-wt. for an all-purpose trout rod. A 4-wt. is ideal for fighting trout, but a 5-wt. gives you more casting range (for larger streams, of which we have many around here) and makes it easier to cast larger flies, multiple flies, and indicators (or even small streamers) than a 4...

This. Bait shops near marinas are like bakeries. Open early, close early (or as soon as they sell out). As Travers knows, IF YOU WANT THE BIG SHIMPS, YOU GOTTA GET THERE EARLY!!! I will say that some of the convenience stores that sell tackle on the way to Westport are open pretty early, and...

That was the guy, alright.

I did a grocery run on the Reel Electric for salmon and rockfish last May. I'm struggling to remember my skipper's name, but he was very good and put us right on the fish. It was a great boat (bet it will be good for fly fishing; not much to get fly line caught on), and everyone at Mutineer...

I thought the helmets were pretty cool, but I prefer the old standard. The jerseys were downright fugly.

That was a good one. Both teams are gonna need every second of the next 10 days to heal up. What a brutal division this is....

I don't "buy" the economic argument. I personally own a couple full fly outfits (crappy rod, crappy reel, and crappy line) that cost me less than $75 each. I used to use them for trolling with my kids on lakes, but they worked for everything else, too, in a pinch. You can definitely do it on the...

Filling a catch card is something I've never done (mostly because I'm very picky about what fish I harvest), but the fact it costs $12 to get a new one seems like a potential reason for some people not to get new catch card. Little things like removing that absurd fee could only improve catch...