I like it when a judge thinks that one side of a lawsuit is basically so full of shit that they scold them like a small child in the opinion.
Indeed, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said that the NOAA Fisheries (the Federal body charged with protecting and restoring the salmon runs) were a bunch [...]

The dishes are washed, the trash has been taken out, the leftovers are wrapped and in the fridge; the Underground’s Second Occasional Slaw Dog Fest is history.
I’m too stuffed and sleepy to write the kind of witty banter you expect from this highly respected online publication, so I’ll let the bare minimum of pictures [...]

[Editor's Note: I didn't write this, so e-mail any death threats directly to Twisted Underground Reader Smellslikefish]

Seeing as “Tom’s Second Occasional Slaw-Dog Festival” happens to fall on Easter Sunday this time ’round, I think it’s only fitting to have a WWJE (What Would Jesus Eat?) discussion — a liturgical give-and-take designed to help us truly [...]

I’d like to pretend that today’s Second Underground Slaw Dog Festival is an event requiring vast amounts of preparation; that the world owes me a great big wet kiss on the lips for investing huge quantities of time in its creation.
But the truth is somewhat less edifying. We’re talking about gas station food here, and [...]

The catching was poor, the fishing was fun, and the two landed trout were irridescent.

It’s impossible to know why trout are so much prettier than they need to be — and I’d fish for them if they were a monochromatic grey — but I marvel at each and every fish.
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The L&T Nancy dug hard and found the perfect card for my 46th [gasp, sputter] birthday.
Instead of hanging around with you hacks, or getting pissed off writing more Nestle news, I’m going fishing. A report later.
Tomorrow — at 4 pm — we’re holding the Underground’s Second Slaw Dog Festival. For those living too far away [...]

Maine is one of my favorite states (blackflies and mosquitoes excepted), and it’s also a favorite target of Nestle (which most of you know is not an Underground favorite).
Nestle leaves no stone unturned in its quest to pump millions of gallons of cheap groundwater from poor rural areas, and their bag of tricks includes spreading around a lot [...]

It’s difficult to know why Nestle abandoned plans to pump millions of gallons of water annually from spring near the headwaters of Michigan’s White River, though the existence of an active local opposition group probably didn’t hurt.
From the Gazette News Service - Nestle pulls out of Newaygo plan:
MUSKEGON — Nestle Waters North America has halted [...]

Flathead Lake is overrun with non-native lake trout, who are consuming the native trout populations at a rapid rate.
Sure, you could try to recruit fly fishers to control the lake trout population, but fly fishing methods are often ineffective against lake trout, and besides, many fly fishers can’t bring themselves to kill fish, revering them like religious objects.
In this case, [...]

Time for another Klamath River Update, that most journalistically incorrect style of post where I take potshots at PacifiCorp for pretending their salmon-extincting dams are environmentally friendly, cuddly slabs of concrete that people would embrace like Barney the Dinosaur if only they were painted purple.
When I last blogged this drama, PacifiCorp was attacking the numbers [...]

From the very cool Ralph Maughan’s Wildlife News blog comes word about the Montana Stream Access bill, which was supposed to clarify the existing law and prevent landowners (a very few landowners) from illegally fencing anglers off streams.
Much like the proposals to regulate or eliminate elk shooting enclosures in Idaho, which had much public support, but [...]

 Via Moldy Chum, we learn that Saracione Reels will no longer be produced.

I hope they’re bitin’.
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