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Resources exist, but a lot of folks with mental illness and addiction don’t know what’s good for them. It is easy to get lost in our individualist cutthroat society. It takes an army of social workers / compassionate cops going around, meeting people, and gaining trust to get some of these...

I see them at the bottom of the page

I find that shooting heads shorter than 22’ dump way too prematurely, ok if you don’t need distance. Even the Teeny lines (designed more for easy depth than distance) were 24’ long

Durable waders = Jumbo shrimp = Instant Classic = Pretty ugly

My experience with several budget non-fishing tinsels is that the holographic dots can wash off quickly in real use and the overall tinsel doesn’t hold its shine well. I have some plain silver that I like to use underneath floss (to make it pop), but I have stopped using it for regular flash...

MOAL flies (anything big with bunny) are sticky and best thrown with a rod that handles a ~ 540/550 skagit.

Aside from toxics and thorns, the worst I’ve experienced for bushwhacking was understory bamboo in the Valdivian rainforests of southern Chile. It branches at each node and gets heavily intertwined, like trying to hike through a wicker chair.

Triflow lube works pretty well

Salmon and steelhead do not always rest close to the bottom, and spey lines don’t necessarily get down quicker than single hand lines. I often use 9 wt single hand rods with shooting heads for salmon. Forget sink tips, you want a full sinking head/line if going deep is the goal. My sinkiest...

Local bass pond near my house 40+ years ago, when my older brother figured out that fish rising in the evening would take flies smaller than any lure we could cast on spinning rods.

I have never heard of this term … position fishing … and I’m not saying who is right or wrong, but if someone wanted to argue on the water about being anchored vs position fishing as an explanation for not moving, I’m thinking it’d be a pretty bad start to the conversation

contact Brian Styskal … his moniker on this site is “Styskal” … world class caster and easy going instructor, left or right hand up

Did you try a red fly, like the spinner color? I’ve had estuary coho days when pink flopped and red rocked. Sorry for the crappy photo and grass on mangled fly. Body is just Danville fluorescent red thread.

I mostly fish clouser minnows (chartreuse or pink) on the single hander and just my usual wiggly winter steelhead tube fly (in pink) on the two-hander. Where they overlap with summer steelhead in rivers, I’ve caught a bunch on top with big muddlers, waked and chugged.

Several studies have estimated climate impacts for different modes of travel on a per person-kilometer basis. It accounts for things like airplanes being full of many passengers vs single-driver pickup trucks. Or short vs long flights (shorter flights having more ascent per mile). Turns out...

I’m in the exact same situation … my wife/daughter use iphones and I’ve never been interested until now. But with a new phone just a few months back, it’ll be 5 years before I replace, unless lost.

I eat enough salmon seasonally that it helps to rotate a few different recipes. My cooked recipes are always on the grill, to keep the stink outside … never overcook. As above, I also use a wire fish basket to facilitate a single flip. 1) raw sashimi (frozen for 7 days at -4F or colder)...

Hubs with a zerk that adds new grease from back to front, displacing old with new, are super easy to maintain annually without the hassle of disassembly and repack

I have tried a couple of Dave’s rods and a couple dozen others. Modern bamboo is smooth and powerful and casts well. I learned on fiberglass and I don’t care for stiff rods. I really dislike the weight, though.