Michael Gracie 

I’d planned on fishing Christmas day, but with high temps expected to climb no higher than the teens I’m likely to bag it. Hence, my fly-fishing year is over, and this year-in-review comes a few days early.
The learning curve
I spent 30 minutes talking one-on-one with Lefty Kreh, in the second week of January. [...]

I pulled this cutbow out of a sewage drain top shelf waterway not long ago:

It smacked a streamer like a freight train, and was quite the tugger. Chunky as well, which shocked me when I looked at its right side – a clearly deformed mouth and gill plate. Didn’t seem to matter to [...]

Tidbits are small, until they grow up

Roubini on bank losses: “If people were not spending their rebate checks in June, what will happen when there are no more checks?” Yep…retail is next.
Trout are unwelcome in South Africa. Check for whirling disease, and then send ‘em on over?
You mean subprime lending wasn’t the only [...]

Does technology create disaster? No, but why don’t climate statisticians have heartburn?
Paul Kedrosky crunches the numbers and finds that there were less than 3,000 seismographs deployed in 1932, and more than 23,000 in 2007. His conclusion:
Combine the preceding with the fact that the number of seismographs worldwide grew from under 350 to over [...]

My neighbors’ four year old daughter made cookies today. The family knows I fish.

Rainbow trout and Bluefish
A couple of Stegasauruses too, although I don’t think anyone makes tippet for those.
I’ll note I’ve never see fish disappear so fast – they must have known I was coming.

Love the gold, hate the trout
From the Chattanoogan:
Catch and Release fishing will be banned in Switzerland from next year, it was revealed this week.
And anglers in the country will have to demonstrate their expertise by taking a course on humane methods of catching fish, under new legislation outlined by the Bundesrat – the Swiss Federal [...]