From the inimitable Goat — Backcountry.com’s gear blogger — comes news that you’ve all been waiting for.
If you want an eye gouged out or damaged in some horrifying way, you’re probably in the right sport.
From the story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: 
Eye injuries from fishing — a treble hook lodged in the eye or a […]

It’s not every day I capture the blame for war, pestilence and earthquakes (I’m not a presidential candidate after all), but now I’m taking heat from flyfishmagazine for hurricane winds and forest fires:
Famed blogging angler Tom Chandler of the Trout Underground is planning to visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the next couple of […]

We at the Trout Underground surrendered in the bikini wars some time ago — beaten by bloggers of considerably less moral fiber (and you know who you are, Moldy), but that doesn’t mean the odd border skirmish doesn’t flare up now and again.
In fact, Alert Trout Underground Horndog College Student “Jack” alerted us to the […]

I worked until the wee hours of the Monday morning, and I’ll be doing the same until early Tuesday morning. Naturally, I’m a little burned. Crispy even.
So instead of a thoughtful essay on foundations of the Italian Renaissance and its relationship to fly fishing, you’re getting The Underground’s First Show & Tell — a relaxing […]

The Way Upstream blog (written by — I think — Patagonia’s Fly Fishing Product Manager) wants your input on fly fishing wader design.

Namely, how to make ‘em better:
I’m beginning some new product development and want to include you in the process. I’m looking for your thoughts, ideas and comments about waders. This is a conversation […]

Let the celebrating begin. The Trout Underground is One Year Old.
Well, OK. You caught me; the Trout Underground is actually more than one year old.
In fact, it’s better than 18 months old, though its roots date back several years to the fishing reports I wrote for Chris Raine’s uppersac.com site. (Uppersac.com is now a part […]

A rain-soaked Upper Sacramento River from under the brim of my hat.
I said I’d fish, and damn if I’m not a man of my word, despite steady rain and cold temperatures. The temperature in Mt. Shasta was only 40 degrees, and I found myself digging out the winter fly fishing clothes I’d put away a […]

The last couple of weeks, the work projects have been many, and the fishing trips have been few.
And given the number of words that have to appear on the screen before I head to Tennessee next Friday, there aren’t going to be many upcoming fishing trips.
But yes, this weekend, I will fish. Will you?
It’s the […]

Every year seems to bring us a pre-season opening snow storm on the Upper Sacramento River.
As far as snowstorms go, this one probably won’t bring out the snow plows, but there’s already a good inch of the fluffy stuff building up and it’s still coming down hard.
Taken this morning; there’s already lots more where […]

There’s nothing like waking up to an April snowstorm — and reading that a group of developers, farmers, and “property rights” activists want all salmon protections stripped from the law:
EUGENE, Ore. - Property rights advocates, farm groups and development interests asked a federal judge Wednesday to lift Endangered Species Act protections from all threatened and […]

It’s a weird Wednesday. That’s all I’m saying here.
It snowed lightly all day yesterday, it’s snowing now, and it’s cold and windy. It’s hardly the spring weather you imagine when you’re trapped in the long, dark tunnel that is winter, but then, things hardly ever look the way we imagine them.
For example, you don’t […]

Earlier this year, a strong windstorm hit The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Ian Rutter — who lives at the edge of the park – woke up the next morning to discover his drift boat and trailer (both wheels chocked front and rear) had been blown the length of his driveway and over the edge of the ridge.
According to Flyfishmagazine, […]