I woke up this morning feeling like I’d been hit by a bus and dragged a few miles, and I’m not even sure why.
Still, given the absence of energy or sanity - or a finished blog post - I turn to my fellow bloggers for help.
Naturally, they don’t disappoint.
Are Male Anglers Truly Parasitic Losers?
From the […]

It started snowing last night - a wet, slushy snow - and this morning there were a couple inches of the white stuff awaiting the attentions of the stooped and pained Mighty Tom and His Trusty Shovel: the Slayers of Snow Drifts.
Naturally, the Upper Sacramento’s blown out, the flows peaking at 9,000 cfs.
Frankly, shoveling snow […]

 Some time ago the Underground jumped for joy when the Feds told PacifiCorp - owner and operator of four salmon-killing dams on the Klamath - they needed to spend approximately $300 million to upgrade the dams with fish ladders.
The thinking was simple: it’s far cheaper to take the dams out ($100 million) than it is […]

It might not be the single most effective theft deterrent system ever made, but it’s certainly one of the most lethal looking:
 
From SCIFI.COM :
Attaching a 4-inch coil to a boom on the roof of his car, Australian Peter Terren created what is no doubt the coolest-looking theft deterrent to ever be built into a motor […]

It’s late, I’m tired, but I’ll shovel this one last post your way - an opinion piece from New West about the fight over stream access in Montana.
Montana’s stream access law - enacted in 1985 - was supposed to serve as a model for all other access laws, but it’s been under siege almost from […]

Wayne Eng’s a local guide who provokes a lot of loyalty in his customers, one of whom decided Wayne needed a new, much cooler business card.
What resulted may be one of fly fishing’s all-time top business cards:

Really, outside of that whole unfortunate cannibalism incident, Wayne actually is a bit of a Zen master.
Once again, […]

Those familiar with the saga of Wally the Wonderdog know the Trout Underground’s Official Sausage-Shaped Blog Mascot is not so much burdened with cunning animal intelligence as he is plain lucky.
He was rescued from the pound the day he was to be euthanized and found his way to our house (Life #1).
In the last six […]

At the Trout Underground, we may be cynical louts, but we’re not immune to the family attractions of the sport.
So when John at Carp on the Fly posted about taking his two year-old fishing, yes, the Underground melted like Gink on a Redding summer day.

This after dad hooked a small carp for her […]

Stream access issues have occupied a growing share of the fly fishing spotlight as of late, and the hard-working adults at MidCurrent have sussed out an excellent article on the subject.
From MidCurrent:
The U.S. has 50 different states with 50 potentially different interpretations of who owns access to fishable water. As Dave Wolf points out […]

Fly fishing is how some of us convert our spare time into sanity, and with both in short supply as of late, Saturday became my day to find some water, cast at it, and wait for calm to appear.
Typically, it doesn’t take long.

The Upper Sacramento. Click the picture for the big “moment of Zen” version.
Along […]

Insomnia has its uses.
I slaved over a hot laptop all morning long, upgrading my blogs and adding a neat new feature to the Trout Underground.
When you leave a comment, you can check a box (just under the comment) and receive an e-mail notification when anyone else responds to that post.
It’s yet another example of […]

Sure, the Trout Underground gets angry at life-sucking, amoral corporations, but we’re not all about the suffering here. No, the Trout Underground’s horizons are broad - they spread far beyond the usual and mundane.
In this case, they spread to Sri Lanka, where an elephant trashed a minivan at an elephant polo tournament, and frankly, who can […]