Stream access is fast becoming a big issue in the USA, which is why this post from the UK’s North Country Angler blog caught my eye. On a recent trip, our intrepid blogger took advantage of the Eden Rivers Trust “GoWild” program.
Their approach? Visiting anglers buy a guide book and “tokens,” and choose the waters […]

Seasoned Underground readers know that I travel about as well as your average fresh-caught trout. I’m lively for a little while, then I become glassy-eyed, my color fades, and finally, brain function ceases entirely.
As far as this trip goes, I’m well past the glassy-eyed stage (and starting to smell a little), and while Boston isn’t […]

With California (and most of the West) in the grips of a drought, the water wars are heating up; Irrigators want water, cities want water, endangered species like Salmon and the Delta Smelt need water. The Delta is one focal point of the water issue.

(ED: The Underground’s Most Excellent Saltwater Correspondent (Jim Troyer to the outside world) spent some time fly fishing his way around Baja, and wrote the whole story down for us. Like anyone else, we’re suckers for a good fish story. Oh yeah — click here to see Jim’s Picassa photo album .)

TU’s Saltwater & Cold […]

I’m on vacation, but normally I’d try to keep my ever-faithful readers informed about fishing-and-water-related happenings around the Internet.
Sadly, my vacation dialup throughput is akin to that of two tin cans attached by a string, so it’s been (and will remain) a little quiet on the surfing front.
Still, I’ve stumbled across a couple worthwhile bits, […]

Vacationing fly fishermen often agonize over concepts like the balance of big fish to numbers of fish, or time spent on the water versus time spent with the family.
Frankly, I’ve moved far beyond those pedestrian concerns, and over the last two days, I’ve wholly abandoned any pretense about fishing, focusing instead on what has […]

It’s not as if we needed further proof of TU-commenter-turned-blogger Kbarton’s firm-but-cynical grasp of the fly fishing scene, but now we’ve got it anyway. In his latest post, he savages the stereotypical fly fishing magazine cover:

We’ve silently endured “The Pose” for years; heroic figure, semi-crouched in water, large fish gripped with both hands, fullsome […]

Fly fishermen often don’t get excited about fish other than trout, but they should. On Maine’s Big Lake, twenty minutes of fishing found us putting a 20″ pickerel, a 14″ catfish, and a dozen smallmouth bass into the boat.

(ED: The Underground’s Most Excellent Saltwater Correspondent (Jim Troyer to the outside world) spent some time fly fishing his way around Baja, and wrote the whole story down for us. Like anyone else, we’re suckers for a good fish story. Oh yeah — click here to see Jim’s Picassa photo album .)

TU’s Saltwater & Cerveza […]

Quantum physics aren’t normally the province of the Trout Underground. We tend to focus on far more cerebral concepts (The Slaw Dog: Cholesterol-Laden Feast, or Fundamental Building Block of Matter?).
Still, we’re always willing to go slumming, so when a blog focused on Quantum Mechanics posts an article about fly fishing (not necessarily as fly fishing […]

If I’m not keeping up with the fishing reports, it’s because I’m fishing. (No, I don’t feel bad about it.) And while the fishing is slowing a bit, the stream of experiences hasn’t.

A fleet of Grand Lakers wait while eat our shore lunch.
Saturday was a Big Day Out for the family members that were piling […]

Fly fishing East Grand Lake from a Grand Lake canoe — on a grey, overcast day — should be cosmic. And it was, at least until I got greedy and the outboard motor died.