It’s been a long day. Tomorrow, however, I’m going fly fishing (at least in the afternoon).
Sure it’s hot. Sure — word is the Upper Sac’s hot bite cooled considerably over the weekend. But damnit, I have a duty to my readers, and I take that duty very, very seriously. (I fly fish for you, my […]

It’s been a rough day; told a prospective client to take a hike, and I’m working like a dog on a couple deadlines. Things are odd at Chandler Corporate Headquarters.
Fortunately, that’s just the kind of day that makes me want to see a picture of a:

A dog playing pool. Via our very odd friends at […]

Think your bamboo fly rod collection makes you better than the rest of us? Ha!
Thanks to the efforts of Alert Underground Reader Guyser (if that is his real name), we bring you the ultimate bamboo geek’s accessory:

That’s a genuine bamboo keyboard. Sure, my 13 year-old plastic IBM keyboard works just fine, but there’s something about […]

With the Upper Sacramento River open to fly fishing all year long, “opening day” no longer carries much weight among the largely catch & release fly fishing crowd.
I admit to missing the week-before-opening-day reconnaissance trips and the rising anxiety about Saturday morning’s flows, but I’d happily trade it for the ability to fish the winter […]

It’s not as if I huddle in a one-room cabin and mail explosive devices to non-fly fishing strangers, but when I’m fly fishing, I’m prone to anti-social behavior.
It’s one reason why I love the backcountry; you can hike and fish all day with the reasonable expectation that you’ll never see another human being who didn’t […]

Ever see trains collide? Now you have…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ASTQBe9U0

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Fly fishing can be an occasional pasttime, or it can lead to a life largely built around river flows, hatches and the weather.
So exactly how does that fit into the traditions of a mortgage, credit card bills and marriage?

Given that I’m clueluess about pretty much everything else, I think it’s best we trun to the […]

Sure, it’s Memorial Day Weekend, but that doesn’t stop your intrepid Underground from searching out and reporting the things you really only sorta care about reading.
Consider it a calling.

With any luck, I’ll be fishing a small, backcountry lake today.
Bear Follies
Ralph Maughan’s Wildlife News carries a story of a photographer mauled by a grizzly and her […]

It’s safe to say there are as many reasons for going fly fishing as there are fish caught.
Some days, sanity demands I get out and sweep out all the accumulated trash in my head, or just remind myself that there’s plenty of impossibly beautiful stuff going on just outside the front door.
It’s true that — […]

Via Spluch comes news of a world-record carp.

From Spluch:
Angler Graham Slaughter shows off his record-breaking carp catch — the first in the world to weigh more than 40 kilos.
It took him 20 minutes to land the mirror carp, which tipped the scales at a whopping 40.188kg (6st 3lbs). Graham, 42, of Worksop, Notts, said: “To […]

I’m plowing through work. If I get enough done, I fish this evening.
It’s really that simple. Which means I shouldn’t even be writing this, but damnit — some of it’s too interesting (and the Nestle smackdown is too sweet) to miss.
Water Wars in the West
I know you’re shocked. Fighting over water in the West? How […]

It’s been another long day at the keyboard, and with two more deadlines tomorrow, it’s possible the Green Drakes, Stoneflies, and PEDs will have to muddle by without me yet another day.
Of course, everyone who fly fishes knows how much it hurts to write that; the idea that the bugs are hatching — and dying […]