Fish With One Eye Open

It’s well-known in the bass world that KVD is a big Metallica fan. In fact, my friend Dan O’Sullivan once wrote an article about him called “Master of Puppets.” I have no doubt that some of you share VanDam’s dual interests, if not his skills and access.

Vocalist James Hetfield is an ardent outdoorsman and has taken some flack for his love of hunting

If nothing else matters to you, and you want to merge fishing with your personal image, there are plenty of options.

California’s Fishworks offers their Master of Tuna t-shirt

There are certainly many offshore boats with names inspired by Metallica songs, like this one

California teacher Duane Calkins, whose “Woodshop Rocks” program built a custom guitar for Hetfield, also built one for VanDam as well as his longtime competitor Skeet Reese

Hook & Tackle has a trucker hat they call the Metallica, although any relationship to the band is purely coincidental.

There is also a salmon fly called the Metallica which according to at least one website was conceived while 80-year-old Petur Steingrimsson was listening to the band on Iceland’s state radio