STONED ON A ROLLER COASTER: When’s the last time I wrote about kidneys in here? I’ll tell ya when: never, that’s when. Yet those essential dual organs, empowered to maintain bodily pH, are within every angler. They are all too often unwillingly hosting kidney stones capable of sending even a macho man into screaming-out-loud labor pains. Women don’t fare much better when stones attack.

For whatever rocky-road reason, many of my fellow fishing folks have recently offered tales of kidney stone torment.