With cabin fever settling in for the duration and the Upper Sacramento fishing slower than in previous winters, it’s not hard to look ahead to warmer days.
I don’t know about you, but bouncing around inside my head are detailed (and mostly unrealistic) plans for 2007’s fishing trips, and while some of them might actually come […]

I get e-mails all the time asking for more “how-to” information. Never let it be said that I don’t listen.
For those of you yearning to learn - for whom knowledge is fuel and life is an empty freeway, let me present you with:

It’s perhaps the best book about wilderness waste management ever published, though I’m […]

From a new blog (it still has that new blog smell) titled “Teh Wind Knot” (that’s not a spelling error, which offers some insight into the writer’s course) we find more encouraging news via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the “right” of Donny Beaver to string piano wire across the Little Juniata River.
In a case closely […]

From the Washington Post comes news that “Klamath River Huggers” everywhere have been waiting for:
SEATTLE, Jan. 30 — In a decision that could trigger the largest dam-removal project in world history, the federal government said today that four hydroelectric dams on the troubled Klamath River must undergo costly modifications to allow passage for salmon.
Since modifying […]

A nod to the never-boring Ass Hooked Whitey for putting us onto this one, which serves to reinforce my belief that most fly fishers are going straight to Hell.
Comments, of course, are encouraged. See you at the Pearly Gates, Tom Chandler.
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It’s Monday, so it’s time for fly fishing’s fun blog to wrap up the weekend’s weirdness in newspaper and put it out by the curb for all to see.
FIRST
These Monday Morning Follies lead off with a good cause: Salmon restoration.
Grist magazine - via Moldy Chum - explains the story behind the “drifters on dry land” […]

The Tattered Fly blog is located in Idaho - not far from a few places I’ve fished, and want to fish again.
Photographs have long been staple content at Tattered Fly, so it stands to reason that Dan would launch a photography contest to keep it interesting over the winter.
Of course, if you’re like the rest […]

Some days you step out onto the Upper Sacramento River, bamboo fly rod in hand, and just know that bugs are hatching, fish are rising, and with the application of a little hard-won technique, you’re going to catch trout.
Perhaps a lot of trout.
This was not one of those days. What’s interesting is how that’s gotten […]

In shocking news which offers fly fishers some small hope of a normal life, scientists have reported that the right kind of brain injury can actually break a smoking addiction.
My brothers, we are freed.
Because the Underground has to ask: could this stunning new technique be applied to fly fishing addictions?
From the New York Times […]

 Bad poetry about trout? Frankly, I can’t think of anything better. Consider this gem (probably written by Claude Freaner):
Trout
To think that I shall never shoutA poem lovely as a trout.
A trout whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the creek’s sweet flowing crest;
A trout that looks at God all day,And lifts her pearly […]

Those slick bastards over at Ass Hooked Whitey scooped us on this exceptional New York Times interview of writer Jim Harrison, and though we hang our head in shame, we love it enough to bring it to you anyway.
For those who have been living in caves - or playing Nintendo non-stop - Harrison is one […]

As if surviving another work week wasn’t accomplishment enough for a Friday, it turns out we need to stop a Canadian mining company from building an open pit coal mine.
Seems they want to build it smack dab atop the headwaters of the Flathead River in British Columbia.
I myself think that you simply haven’t truly enjoyed […]