Funny Fish

Funny Fish

These fish will test your patience, your tackle and your sanity. Funny Fish, such as skipjack tuna or Spanish macks, are reliably unreliable. These late summer fish are funny as in crazy. The start of summer football two-a-days usually coincides with the arrival of...
A Dorsey-style Family Vacation in the Amazon

A Dorsey-style Family Vacation in the Amazon

This weekend on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, Dorsey and family wrestle with river monsters from the southern hemisphere. Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that this Saturday’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – the most watched outdoor TV...
White Bass the Most Fished-For Species?

White Bass the Most Fished-For Species?

The white bass (sand bass) gets my nod as one of the most popular species to be targeted by the largest number of anglers. Here’s why. If a survey was given to fishermen across the south and southeastern states and the question posed, “What do you consider to be the...
The Birth of a Fisherman

The Birth of a Fisherman

You never get over the sight of your first bluegill or redbreast. Maybe that’s why we always return to the ponds and waters of our youth. It was shaping up to be a day for the Daddy Diary. I was sitting, legs swinging carefree, on the well-worn dock of the family...
Eagles, Bears and Kings on the Alagnak River

Eagles, Bears and Kings on the Alagnak River

In Alaskan backcountry on the Alagnak River, the myth of wilderness in the form of a fierce, wild, strong King Salmon is just a cast away. Alaska. The Alagnak River. July. As from my boat I watched eagles, ospreys and bears hunt along the river, I realized that man...
6 Great Fishing Gifts for the Traveling Angler

6 Great Fishing Gifts for the Traveling Angler

For the angler with perpetual wanderlust, nothing says you love them more than these gift selections designed with the traveling fisherman in mind. The opening line in Norman Maclean’s classic, A River Runs Through It, is perhaps the most memorable distillation of the...
Baitcasting — Teach Me, Oh Jedi Bassmaster

Baitcasting — Teach Me, Oh Jedi Bassmaster

You don’t need the powers of “The Force” to learn how to throw a baitcaster. Here are a few helpful tips if you want to start baitcasting. An idiot fishing buddy of my acquaintance claims that you aren’t really a man if you haven’t learned how to throw a baitcasting...