The L&T Nancy and I try to keep our energy footprint to a minimum, but recently decided to offset the carbon dioxide we produce while heating and lighting the house.
We tumbled for carbon offsets, which are easy, affordable, and I even accounted for my Web server and home office. That means the Trout Underground is green too.
Ha! Take that, […]

Once again, the Trout Underground blows the lid off the fly fishing industry - this time it’s those rapacious bamboo fly rod makers gouging us poor consumers.

Sure, you’d think if anyone’s gouging fly fishers it would be the manufacturers selling mass-produced-by-the-thousands graphite fly rods for better than $700.
“Nay” says the Underground!
Courtesy of the Underground’s Saltwater […]

Here’s what you get when you combine a scuba diver, a couple fishermen and the South Platte River: 11 different observations about fly fishing that may or may not surprise you.

From the diver:
I’m in the middle of an experiment to find out what trout really do under the river surface. The only way to truly […]

While second-rate politicians bloviate about things like world peace and global warming, here at the Underground we’re deeply concerned about what’s really important.
That’s the State of Fly Fishing (natch).
Winter’s been hard.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say I’d been looking forward to this winter’s fishing with something approaching childlike glee.
Two years ago, […]

All my gear was stacked by the door, and I hopped out of bed like a kid at Christmas. After a couple tough weeks, I was going fishing on the Rogue.
Or was, until Dave Roberts called and said he had a stomach flu.
Damn. Plan B.
Instead of the Rogue, I headed for the lower reaches of […]

After working the last three weekends, I’m taking Monday off and fly fishing the Rogue with Dave Roberts.

Flows are good, but it’s been damned cold. Neither of us has a clue what’s happening. Flavs? BWO’s? Nothing?
In truth, it doesn’t matter. We’re going to fish some nice bamboo fly rods - maybe even catch a steelhead.
Back […]

Some of my friends exhibit excellent taste (despite the fact they’re my friends), and when they suggest a book, fly, fly rod or leader design, by god you try it.
Sully - the Underground’s Montana Correspondent and Director of Curmudgeon-Related Activities - mentioned that Many Rivers to Cross was a book worth reading.
So by god, I […]

From the redoubtable MidCurrent comes this rather intriguing story of the Steelhead Train on Wheels:
This looks like a heck of a lot of fun. For $50 you can hop on board two 1950s-era Pullman cars that move up and down an 8-mile stretch of Oregon’s Wallowa River, disembarking and reboarding all day long if you […]

Bamboo fly rods seem to be much on the minds of fly fishers this winter.
My Winston rods/Sweet Grass rods post drew several comments, and then I woke up this morning to discover that Hawgdaddy at the TVA blog is now jonesing for a bamboo fly rod.

I’d love to warn him to turn his back on […]

With the overwhelming weight of public comments against stocking hatchery fish in the Batten Kill, the fight to keep the Batten Kill wild (not native) looks to have been won: 
The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a final Trout Management Plan for the Batten Kill which focuses on habitat restoration and the continued […]

Alliteration - the last refuge of a tired writer - isn’t much good when you’re writing in Pulitzer territory, but on the Trout Underground, it’s pure literature gold, baby.
Still, it underlines the ongoing Montana stream access battle, which has recently been heating up to the tune of more illegal fences and a corresponding increase in […]

Marshal is the driving force behind MidCurrent - fly fishing’s leader of the blog pack.
He’s also a recovering flats guide (note the irony), and we commiserated a bit recently over the number of things we’d like to write for our respective blogs, but haven’t found time to do amidst the pressures of making a living and engaging in the rare […]