I can’t even pretend this is fishing related. Maybe I need to go fishing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXcaFC1vF0Q

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From the Idaho Mountain Express (via MidCurrent) comes news that Idaho’s Silver Creek hosted 7300 visitors in 2006.
The Bad News is: That’s a lot of people.
The Good News is: That’s not as many as the 10,000 that visited it the years after “A River Runs Through It” boosted the numbers of fly fishers.
Between opening day […]

Too lazy to walk to the best fishing? Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present… The Tank Chair.

Designed as an off-road capable wheelchair, this baby goes through streams, snow and mud.
It not only offers you the freedom to go anywhere, but you gotta figure you could just own the folks with normal wheelchairs. Own ‘em.
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We received several suggestions (online and via e-mail) for the Underground’s Dancing Elf. While most were simply too horrible to bear, we managed to create the two below.
To see the fully animated Dancing Elf of your choice, simply click the picture. One of the two is Chris Raine, though it’s hard to say which.

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Since nobody has stepped up to buy the poor, boatless Trout Underground a wooden drift boat this Christmas (and I can only assume most of you wanted to, but thought someone else already had), I wanted to let you know there’s still time to shop.
Sierra Trading Post (one of our affiliates) is offering a free […]

The battle’s raging on the Washington Fly Fishing board about kiss-and-tell articles in fly fishing magazines (via Ass Hooked Whitey).
These are the destination articles that detail access points and tactics to fly fishing locations, not all of which can absorb much pressure.

How much pressure could this small alpine lake take? How much would an article […]

Are hunters, anglers and other outdoorsmen doomed to remain factionalized splinter groups - at each other’s throats rather than working together to preserve the outdoors?
From New West’s online magazine comes an article about the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership - a conservation group committed to the idea that outdoorsmen are easily fragmented by the forces arrayed […]

I’m sitting in the living room writing this fly fishing post on my laptop while the L&T Nancy wraps Christmas presents.
I wrap presents like Borat picks up women, so I’ve been encouraged to write instead of jamming the present-wrapping gears.
On the radio, a woman is singing that life is short and that we all die […]

Looks like the world headquarters for the Flytimes and Moldy Chum blogs have been hammered by the windstorms in the Pacific Northwest.

Flytimes World HQ. Who says Wyatt throws boring parties?
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A few years ago, I was lucky enough to stumble across a copy of Muriel Foster’s Diary, and bought it faster than your average fly fisher buys a big fish story.
If you’re not familiar with Muriel Foster or her diary, she was an upper-class Englishwoman who lived from 1884 to 1963. In addition to fly […]

Sure, you’ve practiced for hours trying to tighten that loop. But it just isn’t happening.
Your friends laugh. Small children cry. And chicks? Once they see you cast, you can’t get a date. What’s a fly fisher to do?
Put a Rocket in Your Pocket!
From Alert Southeastern Correspondent Ian Rutter comes news of the most ultimate fly […]

Remember that cute, adorable little reindeer from that cute, adorable animated Christmas show - Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer?
He’s now available in a slaw dog.

A Florida “entrepreneur” is selling Reindeer hot dogs for the holidays, a really Rudolph-a-licious idea if ever there was one.
Ah yes, the Reindeer Slaw Dog. The little ones will dig it. And […]