I don’t need to change my strings‘Cause the dirt don’t hurt the way I sing—Sturgill Simpson, “Living the Dream” Just this morning, I finally faked my way into the Vatican, only for two high priests to shatter all my notions about the meaning of life by proclaiming there is no Read more…
According to legend and lore (the ancient predecessors of science), the rising of the Dog Star Sirius shepherds forward a period of mad dogs, heat, drought, misery, fatigue, misfortune, and calamity. No one is safe, not even those who prowl more than forty-seven degrees above the equator. But even if Read more…
With apologies to John Mellencamp. Well, I was born in a small stream And I can breathe in a small stream Gonna die in a small stream And that’s probably where they’ll bury me
Lee Wulff famously said, “A gamefish is too valuable to be caught only once.” Reasonable people can—and do—debate the scope of this credo, and I suspect Lee did too. But if that script was written for a particular scene, it was likely written for one like this.
Many people mistakenly believe the X Caddis is a pattern invented by Craig Mathews and John Juracek. Instead, Craig’s wife, Jackie, devised the idea and tied the first pattern for Craig and John while working on something to imitate an emerging and impaired caddisfly stuck in its pupal shuck. “Why Read more…
Spend enough time in the wild, and sooner or later, you’ll get a front-row seat in the grand theater of life and death. In one scene, a deer’s skull, spine, and matted hair lie still in a Michigan forest—decaying remnants of an animal that once wished to live, reminding anyone Read more…
Want to catch a smallmouth bass that is so strong you might hook it in Wisconsin and land it in Michigan? Want to see a fish sip your popper from the surface, then fight like a spurred Brahma bull? Want to spend a day on the water with a knowledgeable Read more…
What angler doesn’t love a memento of the fish of a lifetime or maybe just the fish of the day? But if you plan to release that fish, you should consider its lifetime, not just yours. Many people have a tough time getting a nice photo of a fish when Read more…