Dave Roberts throws a sideways, half-gainer-in-the-pike-position aerial mend. (A 9.5 from the judges)
You can typically count your really good friends on the fingers of one hand (even a hand that’s been in an industrial accident would likely do).
So when you get a chance to fish with one of the fingers, you take it - even […]

Just got back from the Upper Rogue. The bad news is the fishing wasn’t great. The worst news is that we got to repeat that news to the approximately 1,278 rafters and tubers who asked as they floated, spun, bobbed and drank their way by.
Of course, it’s hard to complain when you know they’re going […]

It’s hot up here but cooling; apparently my threat to go naked has spurred some changes in the Divine Weather Department. This weekend should be positively nice, and I’m going to sample some of the local fishing opportunities. Words and pictures - of course - as it happens.
And now for the Entertainment. You’re not going […]

The heat just won’t give us a break, and frankly, I think everyone up here is getting a little punchy around it. That, of course, leaves us with two choices. We can ease across the line that separates the sane from those paint their bodies and run around naked, or we can fish.
Chris Raine and […]

It’s Thursday, and while Northern California continues its slow melt into the earth’s crust, this weekend could shovel a little relief our way. Just think “cool” and maybe everyone gets out alive…
Those who might not survive include a lot of birds and animals who count on the annual upwelling off the California Coast. For the […]

I’m writing this from the dreaded Internet, which - according to a writer on the muddied waters of the Fly Fisherman message board - is responsible for a decline in article payments to fly fishing writers everywhere.
Instead of stating the obvious - that popular FF magazines are endlessly recycling the same old stories and using […]

I’m not normally a link-heavy kind of blogger, but found myself staring at a great collection of the things. Still, I’m tied up with other projects - and I’m working on another post for later today - so here we go, but in double-time…
Hitting the top of the really, really odd product category is the… […]

It’s Monday, and I’ve written (and photographed) a lot of fly fishing blog the last couple days. This morning it’s back to work at Underground World Headquarters, but before the nose hits the grindstone, we’ll throw a little Underground Entertainment your way.
First, I’m deeply in like with the Fly Fishing in Yellowstone Park blog, which […]

After Friday’s cool weather and evening fish-fest on the Upper Sac, Saturday dawned clear and hot. The L&T Nancy and I stayed home long enough to see American Floyd Landis clinch the Tour de France, and then headed for the mountains.
Our destination was Upper Gray Rock Lake; a small mountain Brookie lake where - 1.5 […]

It’s typical for me to wander around in a daze, my brain wholly occupied by a single thought (and my body trying to keep me alive in its absence). When it happens on the river, the results are predictably bad, but tonight was the exception.
Instead of the furnace-like heat we’ve been suffering, Friday was cloudy, […]

With the Internet already clogged by amateur video and boring podcasts, we’ve found a way to rise above the cesspool of user-generated “media” and bring you… nature [gasp]. Those sleuthy types over at GetOutdoors.com have compiled a list of wildlife netcams showcasing our feathered friends. That’s right; you can surf into the Eagle Cam - […]

Well, the heavens have opened up and the rain is coming down, and the Trout Underground saw that it was good. Great, in fact. Suddenly, it’s ten degrees cooler, no sun, drizzle… if it holds up through the afternoon, I’m out the door with float tube in hand.
Forecasts for the weekend have similarly dropped a […]