As the only media outlet on the planet without an iPhone mention or video of Paris Hilton’s tearful release, I thought the Underground should pay some kind of homage to the broadcast arts.
Hence this: Ask About Fly Fishing’s Internet broadcast of their Ian Rutter interview is now online.
You can listen to Ian spill his guts […]

I stumbled across this UK blog after Doug left a comment here. In addition to some interesting posts, they posted us some gorgeous scans of vintage flies:

Cool stuff, eh? (Click the image to see more scans)
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The USA Fly Fishing Team finished sixth at the World Fly Fishing Championships — cause for some mild celebration. Sadly, Charlie Meyers of the Denver Post (normally a pretty straightforward outdoor writer) drags the survival of the sport into the mix, and — lamentably — even plays the nationalism card :
Just about everyone cringes at […]

Fly fishing Lake Siskiyou isn’t normally an intense affair. If you fish from a float tube (like I do during the warm season) then you’re fishing from an inflatable easy chair, and in that setting, ambition takes a back seat to recreation.

Last night’s rod: an 8.5′ 7wt James Beasley cane rod (click image for a […]

The 43.6 pound Rainbow Trout recently caught at Lake Diefenbaker has been submitted for world record status… Except, it’s clear the enormous trout is one of the half-million triploids who escaped a commercial fish farming operation and took up residence at the lake.
Conservation writer Ted Williams sums up the questionable background of the fish:
I learned […]

Flows on the Big Hole River are a fraction of normal, a state of affairs that will likely effect the area’s few remaining Fluvial Grayling. This from the Montana Standard (via Ralph Maughan’s excellent conservation blog):

The river, as of Monday, was flowing at 23 cubic feet per second at the Wisdom bridge, a paltry 13 […]

I can hear the conversation already: “But honey, I’ve gotta drink this twelve pack so we can finish the mizzenjib.”

This nine-meter, beer-can boat survived a trip from Ipswich to Brisbane, Austrailia (no, we don’t know where Ipswich is), so the Underground naturally wonders how beer cans would hold up on the Upper Rogue (or maybe […]

From the warped spaces over at Moldy Chum comes yet another fishing infomercial that will change your life and alter the way you view the universe!
Or not. It’s really up to you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voCx4T3rHh4

If you’re like me, you’re just waiting for the fly fishing version (which will cost $585 instead of $39, though it will be made […]

In a shocking example of just how bad this nation’s hallucinagenic drug problem has become, our favorite Southeastern Guide/Predator (that’s Ian Rutter) is going to be the subject of an upcoming Internet audio broadcast by the guys at AskAboutFlyFishing.
It’s going down this Wednesday evening (6 pm PST/9 pm EST), and I think we should all […]

I won’t lie. I was a pretty cranky guy most of last week, culminating in a temper tantrum on Friday when I couldn’t find my 3wt reel.

A meadow, a cliff, a stream, and a fly rod. Tough place to go? Nope.
Losing a reel (given my somewhat haphazard organizational style) isn’t exactly earth shattering, but it […]

While I put together a trip report from yesterday’s sortie to a gorgeous small stream in an alpine valley, enjoy this tidbit sent to us by Alert Underground Reader & Espresso Drinker Murdock (of flyfishmagazine.com fame).
Yes, my readers, it’s yet another bamboo item — this one looking like something the Professor would cook up on […]

It’s Puffy! Once again, the Trout Underground leads fly fishing’s online world with the first… talking pufferfish!

I gloat. I preen. I strut about obnoxiously. (And more to come).
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