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Did you travel to see family over the Easter holiday weekend? I did, and I was lucky - I got to spend some time outside, too. You?
On the highway and on a couple of short fishing trips over the weekend, in ditches and the spots we went to fish, I saw a lot of one thing: styrofoam. What a shame. 

The simplest solution: clean it up when we see it, and of course make sure we're never the ones littering. 

A little more work: don't cause it to come into use in the first place. That means carrying a reusable mug instead of using disposable cups. It means taking a tupperware with you when you eat out, so that you can bring leftovers home in reusable, instead of disposable packaging. It means...

The bubble line runs through most streams.  There is no mystery behind it.  It is, literally, a line of bubbles running down the stream.

Those bubbles indicate that highly oxygenated water runs underneath.  Where you find oxygen, you will find mayflies and, especially, stone flies.  And where you will find mayflies and stone flies, you will find fish.

Fishing the bubble line can be problematic, though.  The current in which the bubble line is running may be on the other side of slower or faster currents, or a combination of currents.  There are certainly options for fishing the bubble line in situations such as this.  You can wade your way into position and drift your fly directly down the bubble line from upstream.  It is important to make sure that your fly...

It's penetrating.

Invigorating for a few, exhausting for most.

Election season – a season that seems to have no beginning or end these days.

And the political vitriol has become the currency of the conversation.

Polarizing, black-and-white screaming that makes guys like me just wanna go fishing.

And when I do, I'm wielding more than a rod – I hold a scepter of power that is America's sleeping giant.

It's no secret about what the election's turning points are – jobs and the economy, with a strong "moral compass" undercurrent.

To say nothing...

Last week I pointed at the line that's been drawn in the sand for us.

It's the line that says now's the time – it's time to care about our waters. To really care.

When I wrote it, I was talking about us. All of us in the graphite army, who sling flies and nightcrawlers and jigs and things with those poles that come to life in our hands when we trick fish.

But let me relate that there's another bunch whom I surmise doesn't need to be on the bandwagon for our waters, they need to be in the driver's seat. That's the companies who make all that stuff, and the professional (promotional) anglers who sell it to us.

Sure, the American Sportfishing Association and its Keep America...