Drifting The Prairie Ocean Outdoor Journal

Gifting The Gift Of Fishing At the mercantile store that I owe my employment is a collection box for the Marine Corps Reserve "Toy F...

A Reason For On Line Fly Fishing Stuff Shopping I made a conscious decision today to make this a non-fishing day.  In hindsight it looks ...

Favorable Circumstances For sure, today was going to be a non-fishing day for me because of the requirement the mercantile store had for ...

A Bluebird Day Not Thanksgiving morning certainly wasn't shaping up to be a Bluebird day - wet and damp, hazy to foggy, gray and ovec...

The Thanks We All Should Be Giving This Thanksgiving Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.  For Miss Carol and me, this Thanksgiving is kind of a wa...

And Oh... How The Rain Came You see that weather map above... the one on my boob tube last night.  That was the prairie ocean at 6 p.m. ...

To Overline Or Not To Overline - Is That Really The Question? If we ask a broad spectrum of the fly fishing community including fly casti...

Dependability It wasn't too long ago I asked Carol why in the world she married me?  Was it because she found me charming, charitable...

KINDRED SPIRITS Today on the river Blue, a number of long time devoted Blue River fans gathered for lunch.  Even though there wasn't a...

My goodness, what a wall of wind came this way overnight and continuing today.  Even though I detest the wind gods and their blowhard way, I...

With the summer heat being to a point of demolishing, I haven't been on the water in three weeks now and this fact was making me quite ...

The rush to feathers by fly-tyers and those who wish to wear the streamers in their hair continue. Fisherman Bugged by Hair Feather Trend:...

Right now, here in the middle of June, we are experiencing July and August like temperatures.  For this old salt of the water that equates t...

Socrates said, "I know that I know nothing."  Socrates didn't mean he didn't know anything, but rather that he didn't ...

The guys and gals in St. Louis don't rest when it comes to promotions for the fly fishing crowd. Check out their latest offer to all ...

When preparing for a fishing trip, the feed bag has to go on the prairie ponies and pony feed continues to go up.  Yesterday afternoon, pon...

In the mail today, I received an offer from Google to sign up for one of their services.   Now, I doubt that I take part in their offer, b...

I doubt that Mr. Jinx really hated meeces to pieces as he proclaimed for years.  He did like jacking with Pixie and Dixie though, like movin...