Are these the ultimate pants for bamboo fly rod fanatics?

My Alert Younger Brother Gerry - knowing of my love of bamboo fly rods - stumbled onto a pair of bamboo pants, and immediately knew that I would have to have them. He bought, he shipped, the package arrived, and I eagerly opened it to reveal… […]

The ongoing bikini wars are flaring up again, only this time those smut peddlers at Fly Fishing in Yellowstone have totally blown the rest of us out of the water with pictures of an extremely fit Slovakian woman who not only does things to a bikini that any y-chromosone would approve of, but also knows […]

In the grips of insomnia, I stumbled on a late-night broadcast of Fly Fishing Masters, a competitive fly fishing show on OLN. I couldn’t turn it off.
It’d be easy to batter the show given my thoughts about the value of human v. human competition in a sport where we’re already competing with the fish (and […]

Sugar Creek apparently wants to turn its pay-to-fish monster trout ponds into something far more lucrative - a reality TV show. Introducing the live, underwater “big fish” cam.
The ideal link for those who “just like to watch,” it’s essentially a peaceful desktop aquarium - until a big, big fish swims through, at which time it […]

My blog is worth $18,629.82.
How much is your blog worth?

Wow - and you thought bamboo fly rods were expensive. Using the same “links-to-dollars” valuation as the AOL-Weblogs deal, it turns out the Trout Underground is worth $18,629.82 (I’ll take it in $10s and $20s please).
Of course, I’d be more inclined to sell if some kind […]

Wake up Undergrounders! It may be a sleepy Tuesday, but there’s no reason to sleepwalk your way through the day (after all, every day you’re alive is another day you might get to fish).
In my case, I’m still focused on getting everything done before my upcoming trip to Maine, which will likely provide several more […]

During my Upper Sacramento Grand Slam of a couple weeks ago, the my little point-and-shoot digital camera batteries were wheezing like a heavy smoker on Everest. The result was a series of underexposed photos of trout with deeply saturated scales. And when you’re given underexposed lemons, you make richly color-saturated lemonade.
Enjoy this slightly different angle […]

One of the joys of rural living are the power outages - the last one of which cost me an hour’s work on a proposal and most of this post. Still, it’s a small price to pay for living at the base of mountain - and minutes away from good trout water.
What’s Next?
I’ve been busy […]

The Underground isn’t a competitive place, but I can’t help but feel bested by those opportunists at the GetOutdoors blog, who posted a photo of a woman in a bikini alongside a fly fishing story we both ran. And then my RSS feed relays a story about sexy black lace panties for iPod users.
What do […]

While I’m all for hopping out of the car and immediately catching big trout, the ugly truth is you miss a lot of good stuff if you don’t occassionally hike away from the parking lots, beer cans - even the big fish. Around here, that means heading into the mountains.
Some call it the backcountry, and […]

Everybody who’s anybody in fly fishing is attending the Fly Fishing Retailer show in Denver, which means the Underground is sitting at home wondering how to make the “A” list next year.
That way, I could browse the long, long rows of new gear that isn’t demonstrably better than the gear we already own - but […]

The Klamath’s been the subject of several distressing posts lately, and this - sadly - is no exception.
A MidCurrent link to the Contra Costa Times reminded me that Pacificorp is attempting to circumvent the addition of fish ladders, hoping instead to implement a cheaper (and highly questionable) “trap and truck” method of moving salmon upriver […]