Wednesday’s Underground Entertainment
By Tom Chandler on Oct 25, 2006 in News, Underground Entertainment
Yesterday the skies were angry my friends, with the winds blowing their hot dragon’s bre… uh, wait. Think I was channeling Koontz, let’s start over.
Yesterday was windy. For most that would be a bad thing, but for me it was almost gratifying, trapped as I was at the keyboard in my business development rut.
Still, one reason to work my butt off now is to free up some time for this weekend’s Great Western Bamboo Rod Gathering in Dunsmuir.
In addition to scarfing a lot of Chris Raine’s food, I’ll mingle with the bamboo pocket protector crowd and see what’s new and interesting in bamboo rods.
As always, you expect an excruciatingly glib report afterwards. Maybe even a picture or two, though I expect the bikini quotient to be extremely low.
In fact, the more I think about it, the more I realize I should probably stick to pictures of the rods themselves. No offense, guys…
Hide Your Balls
While the Collateral Damage blog doesn’t often concern itself with issues of concern to Premier Outdoor Blogs like ours, it did find camouflage Malted Milk Balls at the LL Bean store in Freeport.
A retail find like this is not easily ignored, especially once you start delving into the myriad of uses for a camouflaged malted candy treat, which the Underground presumes to be…
Well, I’m not at all sure why you’d need these, but I do know that I want some. And really, isn’t that the kind of thinking that has made this country great?
Fish Food
For those interested in eating fishier foods comes this story from the Charlotte Observer (via another blog I can’t I.D. now, sorry for the lack of attribution) about commercial fishing of carp in the Mississippi River basin.
Asian carp are invading in droves, including the silver carp - which jump headlong into boats (and fishermen) at the sound of a boat motor.
One commercial fisher can apparently net 15,000 pounds of bighead carp in 25 minutes, but can’t find a market for more than a day or two of fishing per week.
It’s an interesting story about an invasive foreign species and the struggle to control it through commercial harvest - albeit one without a commercial market.
The good news? If American develops a taste for carp, we’re set.
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C4C Raine | Oct 25, 2006 | Reply
camoflauged balls of chocolate covered milk malt?! ….cool? just what the troops over in the sandbox need!
As for the carp, if they relaxed some regs a person could probably derive some excitement with a combination of small outboard watercraft, shotguns, and a good carp jumping spot!
Tom Chandler | Oct 25, 2006 | Reply
I thought of malted milk balls with desert camo, but figured they’d fare poorly in the heat, providing little more than a tease to our candy-deprived troops.
Larry Swearingen | Oct 25, 2006 | Reply
Flying Carp ? Let’s see …
Cat Food ?
Fertilizer ?
Larry S
Tom Chandler | Oct 25, 2006 | Reply
Finned clay pigeons?
If the meat is really as mild and flaky as we’re lead to believe (and that might just be where they’re farmed in clear water), then eventually somebody will rename the things and start selling.
If anyone has ever eaten Orange Roughy, then what you actually consumed used to be called the appetizing “Slimehead” fish before some marketing genius got smart.
Is today’s Bighead Carp tomorrow’s “freshwater whitefish?”