As if all common sense hadn’t already fled the land, now the Feds want to give most of San Luis Reservoir to our close personal friends: Westlands Irrigation District.
If you’ll recall, Westlands is the irrigation district that hugely overpaid for the Bollibokka Club, removing one of the obstacles to raising Shasta Dam.
And yes, this is the same district […]

Sure, snow’s beautiful, except when you’ve gotta shovel the stuff off the driveway.
Thankfully, you won’t see any pictures of that activity, but to start your day on a peaceful, fluffy foot, I give you a few pictures from yesterday’s Wonderdog Wanderings:
 
 

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Via Moldy Chum comes a contender for the Underground’s Pointed Barb of Irony Award.
It turns out this year’s study of the effectiveness of barging Snake River salmon around those four damned Snake River Dams was canceled - because there weren’t enough salmon.  
PORTLAND, OR 2007-02-21 Scientists will have to suspend this year’s study of barging Snake River salmon — […]

With water diversions for bottling plants a hot topic here on the Underground, Alert Rod Building Reader Chris Raine mentioned a related article in the Trout Unlimited magazine.
A quick search of their site turned up A GLASS HALF FULL (it’s a pdf file) - an in-depth look at water diversion policies (and disasters) in New England).
It’s well-written and revealing […]

 
After shoveling enough snow to fill my own lake, I found this little goody via Spluch: Underwater ice hockey. 
The first ever World Cup in the new extreme sport of underwater ice hockey has been staged in the frozen White Sea lake in Austria. Eight nations battled it out in the freezing water under a thick […]

Bish on Fish (today it should be “Bish Fish Dish”) throws yet another fascinating “Famous Fly Fisherman Cheater story our way - this one about a “famous fly fisher” who shows up in New Zealand, makes a fool of himself, then uses the magic of video editing to restore his reputation.
From his site:
By now I […]

Sure, you can talk endlessly about the minute social benefits of technology like lifesaving medicines, but we’ve uncovered the single most important technological development since the wheel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-y7rSXJKNM

No fly tying room should be without one. Period.
Want to know more about this boon to humanity? Visit the beer launching fridge inventor’s Web site.
Our only question? Why only […]

Multi-nationals like Nestle would like you to believe the water you pay a premium for at the store is far better than the stuff gushing out of your tap.
Yet the truth maybe be far less clear.
An opinion piece in the St. Cloud Times lays out the case against buying bottled water, suggesting that regulations for […]

An albino peacock? I’ve gotta think this baby would tie a lot of cream midges.

Found via the 37signals blog , this beauty would have to make an interesting source of fly tying material, even if its only real use is generating bragging rights.
“Sure, the Underground Midge Pupae is effective using everyday peacock, but the original–and most  […]

Via Ass Hooked Whitey comes killer YouTube video from a camera mounted on the space shuttle’s solid rocket boosters as they separate and fall back to earth.
As AHW says, totally badass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8azRu2stO4

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The raving capitalists at Moldy Chum recently conducted an interesting (and highly gratifying) comparison of Web traffic at some of the major fly fishing e-commerce sites.
After comparing the leading fly fishing only sites (Fly Shop, etc) to the big boxes (Cabelas, Bass Pro Shops, etc), they threw the Trout Underground into the mix.
The results?
If my […]

I don’t know at what point putting on waders and heading to the river ceases to be a fishing trip and becomes an excuse for getting out of the house - the walls of which grow a little closer every winter day - but it’s likely I passed that point today.
It was snowing, the Upper […]