It’s Monday evening. The wet, heavy snow has started falling again, and everything feels damp and cold.
The satellite TV succumbed to the snow a couple hours ago, but that’s OK. It’s a night to sip hot tea, sit down and write a little.
Of course - if you read Jim Troyer’s report from Baja - you […]

I wrote an essay about winter fishing for Ben Rualo’s Fly Fishing Norcal site. I don’t have as much time to write essays as I’d like, but Ben’s agreed to run one now and then just to keep me from completely giving up the ghost.
Here’s a short passage from the essay:
Winter fishing isn’t something you […]

MidCurrent tracks down another interesting story in the West’s ongoing water wars - this one aimed squarely at determining the value of fly fishing to a local economy.
Sure, it’s hard to place a dollar value on that moment where the fly is embedded in your back, the fly line is wrapped around your legs, and […]

It’s a Big Day for a pair of the West’s Best Writers.
Today is the birthday of Thomas McGuane - my favorite fly fishing (and short story) writer.
His book - The Longest Silence - was an instant fly fishing classic, and should be on the shelf of every fly fisher (if it’s not on yours, be […]

It seems like a saltwater Monday here at the Underground. In this case, it’s Welcome to another episode of Our Favorite Fly Fishing Rabbi. (How many can there be?)
In this installment, our ecclesiastical piscator vacationed in the Bahamas, and took the opportunity to go bonefishing.

Amusingly, he experienced what a lot of us do the first […]

Tom,
Here’s my report from Rancho Leonero on the East Cape of Baja. If anybody is interested in going down there, they can check out the website: http://www.rancholeonero.com

If they want a good guide for the area, they can contact Jeff De Brown at: http://www.thereelbaja.com
Back from the Ranch….
Just returned from the Ranch. We landed just after Hurricane […]

This might be the ideal style of fishing for our car-obsessed, NASCAR-crazed society. Either that, or some people have way, way too much time on their hands. That’s all I’m saying here.

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Standing in the rain like a concrete pillar isn’t exactly the kind of thing that wins you love and support from the significant others (as in “you did what all day??”).
Still, with the weather finally turning wet and gray, chasing the Upper Sacramento’s BWO hatch wasn’t so much a decision as a foregone conclusion.
Chris Raine, […]

I waded into the water amid a scattering of BWOs, saw a fish rise, put a nice cast on him, watched him eat the fly and lifted the rod.
Wow. I just caught myself a fat 18″ trout. My first thought?
It can only go downhill from here.

Yet another Upper Sac fish-in-the-net pic. Sorry, I don’t drag […]

It’s been a long week though much work has passed through my fingers. Fishing today isn’t a given, but fishing tomorrow - when snow is called for - definitely is. Never miss a chance to fish in the snow.
In fact, those of you who chase BWOs like surfers chase waves will no doubt find the […]

MidCurrent - fly fishing’s answer to the AP News Wire - reports that Fly Fisherman magazine and several other outdoor titles will be sold to a private equity investment firm (along with their respective Web sites, which might be the real target of the sale).
The new owner already owns a leading publisher of Bibles, leading […]

Ass Hooked Whitey publishes a brilliant letter from the late Norman MacLean (author of A River Runs Through It) to a publisher who rejected his first manuscript (after apparently toying with MacLean for some time), but was gunning to publish his second book.
Every writer who has ever, ever been yanked around by a publisher or […]