I wouldn’t say I was 100% (in fact, I wouldn’t say I was even 75%), but it’s close enough. Hell, I can always get better on the river. Plus there’s all that time spent relaxing in airports and airplanes to recover even more…
For the first couple days anyway, I’ll post reports. Stay tuned.
The local opener […]

I was chugging towards the start of my Tennessee trip but this morning the train sorta came off the rails. The annoying head cold turned into a fever, headache and other symptoms too graphic to describe in a family fly fishing site.
The ever alert L&T Nancy called the airline to see about pushing my departure […]

“Opening” day is fast becoming something of misnomer around much of CA; flows on the Upper Sac just topped the oh-so-unpleasant 5000 cfs mark, and yesterday, local guide Steve Bertrand sacrificed a few gallons of $3.21 gas to reconnoiter the McCloud. He reports water flowing over the McCloud reservoir dam like money through congress, and […]

It’s great to feel the sun again, but the warm temperatures are melting snow and pushing Upper Sac flows to pretty dizzying levels. We’re approaching 5,000 cfs, and the trends don’t look good. Fortunately - at least for those of us fishing Tennessee next week - the flows back there are coming down nicely. It […]

The Trout Underground is happy to announce a new (and subversive) Montana correspondent, who we’ll refer to only by his code name of “Sully.” Today I’m reprinting a report he sent a week ago, because I was basically too lazy to post it earlier. “Sully” has fished all over the West, and was doing it […]

In a gripping race against the clock, bamboo rod builder Chris Raine - risking life-threatening bamboo slivers and potentially career-ending varnish burns - is rushing to complete a brook trout rod prior to Tom Chandler’s upcoming trip to Tennessee.
His unprecedented days-long “speed build” of a 7.5′ 3-pc cane rod has gripped the tiny Northern California […]

It’s Monday - time for the weekend roundup of fishing rumor, innuendo and outright fabrication. What do I know? Not a hell of a lot, but what I don’t know I’m willing to make up. It’s the Internet…
Dave Edmondson bobbicated a couple of fish on the Upper Sac through town late last week, though […]

It’s early, I’m working, and I’m getting a head start on a sore throat and head congestion (which suggests something unhealthy heading my way prior to my Tennessee trip), but I can’t leave the Underground’s Alert Readers wholly bereft of their morning fix. Drink fully my friends - of the rich, tasty “Nectar-of-the-Gods” fullness that […]

With the last snow finally melting out of the Trout Underground’s backyard and no monster storms forecast for the coming week, we can hope that spring has officially arrived on the Upper Sac. It’s very green downcanyon, and starting to green up here at the top. It’s a time of year that – when you […]

It’s official! (well, as official as it gets here at the Underground). Welcome to the new Trout Underground blog site. I’ve moved 90% of the content to the new site (still looking for a home for Cool Eddy) and you can find all that content on this blog’s “static pages” (see the navigation links to […]

Like any self-respecting trout, the Trout Underground isn’t content to sit in the current and eat any old bug that floats by. No, the Trout Underground is ambitious and agressive; the kind of trout that moves upstream, always searching for a better rock to hide behind with the biggest bugs kicking by.
Soon, you’ll surf into […]

A couple sunny days have put everyone at Trout Underground World Headquarters in a better mood. With flows slowly falling on the Upper Sac (4000+ cfs right now), Mother’s Day Caddis flying on the Upper Rogue, and a Tennessee plane ticket waiting for me in 1.5 weeks time, there’s a lot to be excited about.
Wayne […]