So, here we go with a new one-time mini contest…the…uh…well…”‘Wunder Boner of the Year” award in which we celebrate the largest bone-headed move, goofy plan or wussy maneuver in fishing. Feel free to nominate yourself or a buddy who’s ever committed a “wunder boner” on a fishing mission…
You know, like the time our pal Rancid had to bail on a fishing trip when he bent over and put a rod ferrel through his face. Or the time that buddy slammed your favorite GLoomis in the trunk…or that time you were on a drift boat trip and you got to the takeout and your pal says he left the keys to the shuttle vehicle back with the truck, which is now 8 miles upriver. Bonus points for a spinless wunder boner, like the time your pal bailed on the weekend fishing trip at the last second because his girlfriend called…you get the idea.
Send us a little note describing the gaffe and, if you have photographic evidence, so much the better! Best stories get the best little fish cleaning device ever invented: The Spinless Wunder Boner fish bone removal tool!
For details on just how handy the Wunder Boner is, check out the greatest TV Commercial of all time. “The Wunder Boner, my wife would like that…”
You know when you get a song in your head and you just can’t get it to stop? Well, I laid awake all night with this one on an endless loop in my brain. This obviously has nothing at all to do with fishing other than I need some sleep tonight so I can fish in the morning. So, I am gonna try to break the chain and pass Pumped Up Kicks off on you! Thanks for taking one for the team! Now everybody sing with me…”All the other kids, with the pumped up kicks…”
You might wanna mix in a sandwich now and then, guys!
I know, I know…it’s been awhile since I posted some truly bad taxidermy for all you aficionados to enjoy, but the wait is over! I stumbled onto these two dandies on the same wall and figured you could appreciate the beauty of the largemouth above and the…uh…smallmouth I guess on the bottom! Both appear to have survived a couple Armageddons and maybe a tornado or two.
About all I can say about these skinny guys is: eeeeewwwwwwww! To see more, be sure to click on our Taxidermy Gone Bad section!
You know me…I’m always a sucker for a good kid fishing pic! So, it was impossible for me not to post this photo of super cute Alexandra Martin, 7, of Brookings, OR, and her first-ever king salmon, a 15-pounder. Alexandra caught the fish Sept. 18 on the Coquille River on the Oregon Coast while fishing with her father, guide Andy Martin of Wild Rivers Fishing.
And that, my friends, is how you get yourself a fishing buddy for life! Good job Alex & Andy!
Though alligator gar get to be the size of submarines, this 62-pound, 8 ouncer looks to be the largest ever taken on 16-pound test tippet and a fly rod and is a pending IGFA line class record.
Martin Arostegui of Coral Gables, FL, who has compiled more world records than anyone else in IGFA history, caught the big fish on Texas’ Lake Livingston on August 22, 2011 while working with Captain Kirk Kirkland.
Thirty minutes after the fish struck his custom fly, Arostegui was able to land, weigh and release the fish alive. With this catch, he kicked the living stuffing out of the current IGFA record, which is 24 pounds, 13 ounces!
In just two weeks, fewer than a thousand voters in the remote Lake and Peninsula Borough of Alaska could decide the fate of the gigantic Pebble mine prospect, which if approved, could be the most devastating development project in Alaska history.
Read more at the Anchorage Daily News and keep your fingers crossed that the world’s richest salmon drainage doesn’t get snuffed out by the mighty dollar…made by folks from a different country, by the way!
Berkley’s new NanoFiL line has really been creating a buzz in the fishing world over the past few months since the iCAST show in Vegas. Through the grapevine, I’d been hearing some really good stuff about the stuff but didn’t have a chance to try it out until recently.
But first, let me back up here and try to explain what the hype’s been all about. Berkley says that the line isn’t a mono or a braid, but rather “The Next Generation of fishing line.” It is made out of gel-spun polyethylene, much like a superline, that consist of hundreds of Dyneema (“The World’s Strongest Fiber”) nanofilaments . The filaments are molecularly linked and shaped by “unified filament technology” into a unified filament fishing line.
In layman’s terms, the fibers that make up the line aren’t braided but instead all run the same direction, so you end up with a smooth finish (made very strong by the Dyneema) rather than they typical rough feel of regular braid. So, basically, Berkley is saying that you can have your cake and eat it too. I was eager to find out… [click to continue…]
