Rolling Duffels

The most practical approach to flying with your fishing gear

In the post-9/11 era, the logistics of angling travel have devolved from the merely inconvenient to the nearly incomprehensible. Standard operating procedures (packing reels, flies and tying gear in carry-on bags) and courtesy leeways (allowing longer rod cases on board) have gone the way of the floppy disk and the federal budget surplus. Today, everything is left to the dubious discretion of TSA functionaries-with wildly inconsistent outcomes, presumably depending on whether they had bran muffins for breakfast or passed the criminal background check. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.