From Claudius Aelianus

We can start the new year with a bit from the start of fly fishing. Aelianus was known as "The Sophist" and was a teacher of rhetoric in Rome from ~170-230 AD. Among other contributions, he gave us the first recipe in fly tying: They wrap the hook in scarlet wool, and to the wool they attach two feathers that grow beneath a cock's wattles and are the color of wax. He gives no indication as to how the pattern was tied, but most people believe this ancient fly was a pink squirrel (kidding man). [preceding text adapted from Darrel Martin]

Happy New Year sukkas. Winter Trout season is here, and thus - first decent day, I'll be hunting for swirls-on-midges in some of the more-better parts of our world.

Friday Night Lights is tonight - meaning I'll turn on my shop light and do up some nymphy looking stuff in my cold ass basement.