Not all knots are created equal, as anyone who has taught knot tying can attest. First, you have to consider the variability in both the performance and characteristics of materials. Then you have think of — among other things –…

Depending on your taste, you may think these visual additives from Soho’s ultra-trendy Jack Spade store are simply silly or a perfect gift for the fly fisher who has everything. Apparently the designer was inspired by a recent Great Lakes…

“Fly-fishing means eliminating all the variables — what fly you choose, what cast you make, how you approach — until you solve the single, irreducible event that is happening in front of you: the head of a trout taking a…

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Los Angeles Times writer Gordy Slack finds a brilliant metaphor for describing the connectedness of seemingly unimportant species to the health of an environment as a whole. “Why care? The species in an ecosystem are woven together like characters in…

Even the most discouraged striper and redfish anglers may finally have something nice to say about the White House. President Bush will announce in his weekly radio address today that the federal government will prohibit the commercial harvest of stripers…