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6' Browning rod from the 1980s, works great ;-) broke an inch off the tip during a wrangle in the dark with some bushes I wasn't...

I was taking a walk along Lake Ontario last night and visibility was maybe 1km. It didn't seem too smoky in St. Catharines but...

The smoke is barely noticeable in the Poconos, but it did effect the sunrise this morning.

Haha, fair enough! The fly fisher was friendly enough as I was putting in. I had a poler this weekend tell me the way to get on their...

That's the part that I really notice...the strange, surreal light. We're lucky that the smoke is high in the atmosphere and the air...

New Hampshire's Grafton Pond is about 30 minutes from my house. Often a packed parking lot on weekends, during the week it is largely...

But 1' lengths of scrap tubing make components for two of my wood pole shoes. ;) Good idea though. As for the fly fishers..... my...

Or you could cut some slightly oversized disc of a closed cell foam say 2” thick, oversized so it will stay where you put it. Then push...

I suppose you could get a 1ft length of scrap pipe (any material but same interior diameter), weigh it before and after adding foam, and...

Coffee break spot on Rice Creek, NC. I bring along a 1 pint thermos of coffee and some where after the mid point of the paddle I’ll...

As my pup progresses with his canoe training we find more challenging water to work in. Yesterday our local paddle was the Wisconsin...

After work today the sun had that particular orange hue that I'm beginning to associate with wildfire smoke haze.

A few years ago, while racing the Yukon 1000, the area had many fires. We even saw one just as it was created by a lightning strike on a...

I've thought about it, but it would kinda defeat the purpose of the aluminum pole by adding weight. By how much, I don't know - but it...

From time to time I manage to somehow channel a clang into my ear by planting the pole with my hand right near my ear. Today, I was...