Are you desperately searching for a reason to go fishing? Well, our friends at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists may have given you one of the all-time best…
The Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ ticking nudge to the world’s conscience, moved two minutes closer to nuclear midnight yesterday, the closest to doomsday it […]

From MidCurrent comes this little tidbit - yet another paper cut among the thousands suffered by the Winston Fly Rod Company since their bamboo rod builders left in a huff.
This one’s a TV show about the “Boo boys” - the four bamboo rod building luminaries who left (or were driven from) Winston, who are making […]

Sure, we love to make sport of guides here on the Underground, but that doesn’t mean they’re not people too.
Plus, this guide (Biggie) is up to making fun of golfers, and runs hilarious politically incorrect videos about major political figures - reason enough to plug him here.

We’re adding Biggie (Josh, actually) to our RSS feed, […]

For your viewing pleasure (via the excellent Piton outdoor industry blog); a little demolition derby, courtesy the morning commute and an icy hill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkdMOvd3T_w

Bump. Bump bump. Crunch.Technorati Tags: portland, snow, car, crash

[tags]We’re not entirely sure we can spot every case of OSFFD in its early stages, but there’s little doubt that the following picture of a fish rendered by used CDs represents a full-blown eruption of the malady:

 Via the OSFFD early-warning team at MOLDY CHUM, we’ve located more artwork in the same vein.
Here at the Underground, we’re making […]

Our Finnish friend at the Opax fly fishing blog managed to turn a little work into a memorable “win” in an Orvis/Finnish fly fishing site conservation contest, where readers submitted conservation ideas for Finnish waters.
Turns out his ten-year conservation plan for a specific watershed… won!
Read all about it here: opax-flyfishing: On top of the world!
Technorati […]

It’s never pretty to see what a few months of fly fishing deprivation does to a mind - especially those minds prone to fly fishing obsession in the first place.
It’s only January, yet the recent spate of odd, cabin-feverish posts on fly fishing blogs has the Underground very, very concerned.
Can you spot the early warning […]

Apparently the cold, cold temperatures are taking their toll on the Rocky Mountain West. And on the people living there.
Our prolific blogging friend - Fly Fishing in Yellowstone National Park - may well be lining his office with aluminum foil to keep the alien rays out, at least if his latest post is to be […]

The Fly Fishing NorCal Web site has clearly lost its grip on sanity; they’re running yet another Tom Chandler essay, this one titled: Is Fly Fishing Saving Itself… From Itself?
Given my recent string of <ahem> fly fishing rants, perhaps a better title would have been: Can Chandler Save Himself… From Himself?
Given the following lead, probably […]

A couple years ago I wrote that the river reflects a fly fisher’s mood back to him; fish angry and the water rages. Fish relaxed, and the same river flows over the same rocks like a zen master.
Fittingly, when Wayne Eng and I stumbled into our gear and tried to wade across an Upper Sacramento […]

I largely avoid fly fishing coffee table books. The problem? Fly fishing picture books typically attain a kind of artificial beauty, and do so at the expense of spontaneity, realism or soul.
Images are carefully arranged, styled and colored - to the point I’m witnessing the product of an advertising shoot instead of a real moment […]

It’s winter, and after a couple weeks of all work and no play, even the Trout Underground is getting a little fidgety.
Tomorrow I fish. But today I point you towards a stellar photography site: The FishEyeGuy.

Jammed with stunning underwater pictures of rainbow, brook, cutthroat and brown trout, it’s worth more than a few minutes of […]