Comments on: Top Northern California Fishery Now Reserved for Wealthy: Undergrounders Need Not Apply

By: The Trout Underground Fly Fishing Blog » We Predicted the Rise of the Bluegill. You Laughed... Until...

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:26:25 +0000

[...] our post spoofing “exclusive” fisheries (featuring the spoofy “Mt. Eddy Executive Bluegill Ranch” Web site) was all in good [...]

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:34:39 +0000

Kentucky Jim,

I’m with you, there are a lot of us and, I’m assuming, only a few of them. If we can just find out where this place is…

By: Kentucky Jim

Kentucky Jim — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:18:20 +0000

Redear? Pumpkinseed? Sun Perch? Nope, it’s Bluegill all the way. Anyone with any sense knows that. Now lemme see, where do I sign up for this ranch?

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:45:27 +0000

Those other sunfish are OK, but the Bluegill was chosen for its strong patriotic tendencies.

Sure redear are a nice fish, but think about it; what true-blue American would entrust his country's water supply to a REDear? (As in Hammer & Sickle RED).

Thank god I'm here to keep us safe (so where's my plush Homeland Security Gig?)

By: ijsouth

ijsouth — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:15:48 +0000

I’m ticked…bluegill are automatically assumed to be the king of the bream species; what about the shellcracker (also known as a redear, or locally as a lakerunner)? I think this fine species, and others, are getting rooked out of a fine government job. Where’s the outrage? Where’s a slip-n-fall lawyer when you need one for a class action lawsuit? Where’s Jesse Jackson? This is discrimination, pure and simple.

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:09:40 +0000

tom, how long ago did you fish it? Where is it located? Man, if that fishery has been around for a while, is it some sort of “Heritage Water”. I truly hope they don’t go for government grant money to protect it at our expense.

That would be truly be the beginning of the end.

This story is really beginning to bother me.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:00:12 +0000

I remember fishing there when the blue gill were bigger than your hand , what a shame.

also forget the Klamath, “save the bluegill”

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:47:41 +0000

The Horror. The Horror.

By: C3C Raine

C3C Raine — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:56:46 +0000

Well, perhaps we’ll leave a few homes standing here and there for the guests to stay in. And for any necessary caretakers. I still don’t believe you had nothing to do with the rambo bluegill write-up, but the Mt. Eddy bit is slightly more believeable since the page SUCKS, and I would expect better from you. See you in a couple weeks.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:52:34 +0000

C3C: Burning Dunsmuir to the ground certainly offers a few benefits to Trout Underground LLC, (see Nestle and McCloud), but I’m a little concerned that the suggestion comes from you — considering your parents’ home would be among the first to go.

You, my sir, are a true capitalist.

Also, I can categorically deny writing the Treehugger article on bluegill, or contributing as much as a single vowell or consonant to the Mt. Eddy Executive Bluegill site.

By: C3C Raine

C3C Raine — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:36:19 +0000

By the way, are the anti-terrorist bluegill exported from the Mt. Eddy Bluegill establishment as well? $110,000 for the system, they must be of the very best breed no? No chance you wrote that article as well huh?

By: C3C Raine

C3C Raine — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:18:17 +0000

First off, did you know that under the “Reservations” link, the underground is at the TOP of the list? And second, I wouldn’t cry too much about the privatization of these mud holes – if we leveled dunsmuir we could one up the hell out of these half-breeds. Can you imagine, “The Upper Sacramento Canyon Fishing Retreat.” Picture this: Dunsmuir is burned to the ground by some new corperation that buys the entire city, say Trout Underground Inc., and a few years go by, most of the vegetation is back, and where there used to be building there are now bass and bluegill ponds, catfish and carp holes, and of course exclusive access to the Upper Sacramento River. Everyone else has to walk in from above or below the retreat, or for the truly dedicated they can float it. The catch: no wealthy folks. Well what do you think? I’m always trying to think of new ways to increase the economy of the Dunsmuir area, I think this is a better idea than taking advantage of the seedy underbelly of the city by putting in an adult bar that also sells loosies and Bud (regular or lite). So, how does the USCFR sound?

By: Dave Neal

Dave Neal — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:07:09 +0000

Go fishing in England, Ireland etc to see what it will look like here in the near future…I don’t see the tweed knickers and wool sport coats taking off here though. Time to throw more money at the Nature Conservancy…

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:18:41 +0000

No dice on the phone number MD. They’d never let the likes of you in. They’ve got standards.

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:16:18 +0000

WOW, TC,

Thanks for bringing this to the forefront. I would have never thought this level of insidious capitalism could exist here in our little piece of heaven.

First Nestle, now this. I feel like running over my flyrods with my Prius.

p.s you don’t happen to have the phone number for those bastards, do you?