If the surfing dogs weren’t a clear sign of apocalypse, then this news must be: come September 15, the Trout Underground is packing his bags and heading for the Fly Fishing Retailer Show in Denver.

Once there, I plan to drink browse my way through the show, staggering and soiling myself carefully reporting on the new […]

I’ve got one hectic Friday ahead of me, but I wanted to fire a couple of interesting links the Undergrounder’s way before things got really weird.
Then again, things are often weird here, especially with the long Labor Day Weekend looming.
First, Some Good News
From the Bangor Daily News comes word of Atlantic Salmon habitat recovery efforts […]

The Fishing Jones blog ran a short story contest, where readers submitted six-word long stories.
The winner turned out to be none other than the Trout Underground’s Official Southeastern Guide to Pick On Ian Rutter, whose entry is less a work of fiction and more a reflection of daily guide life:
“I’ll tie the knot next time.”
Brilliant, […]

It seems my clients actually expect me to produce something before they send me a sizable check, and in the interest of actually receiving one of those checks, I’m going to do a little work.
Sure, I just posted a sizable article about Westlands — a member of the Underground’s Axis of Evil — but there […]

UPDATE: You can sign an online petition (in seconds) that calls for Feinstein to put the brakes on this terrible water giveaway. Takes only a few seconds…
I haven’t made a secret of my antipathy for the Westlands irrigation district . They’re pushing to have Shasta Dam raised — flooding miles of the Upper Sac, […]

I spent 6.5 hours in a car to fly fish 7.5 hours for trout I knew weren’t going to exceed 11 inches in size, yet by the complex calculus we use to define our fly fishing experience, I’m pretty damn happy with the bottom line.

Dave Roberts fishing a 7.5′ 4wt on a small, southern Oregon […]

At the Trout Underground, we continue our quest for the coolest, most useless useful bamboo-related items for today’s green-thinking, fly fishing purists.

Today (via the GoBlog) it’s a bamboo helmet — the perfect headgear for fly fishing’s legion of “Chuck & Duck Purists.”
If you haven’t heard of them yet, chuck-and-duckers are a zany bunch of fly […]

Sure, it’s not fly fishing related, but man does not live by trout alone. Studies prove that he also needs a healthy dose of… Surfing Dogs.
Via the Blogfish oceans blog we found this little gem:

(AP Photo)
Sure, it looks like Yoda on a surfboard, but it’s actually Bandit, and he’s one of 47 surfing canines who […]

The rainbow trout on the Upper Sacramento are beautiful — especially when you catch them right as the sun turns the canyon wall into a big, golden reflector. Fly fishing’s beautiful, but never more than it is in those moments.

Half of Montana and Idaho are on fire, so it’s hard to focus on the hardships suffered by any one area. Still, the L&T Nancy’s father lives outside of Ketchum and I’ve fished the Big Wood River several times, so you could say I noticed when the mandatory evacuation order was given for residents between […]

As we’ve noted in the past, fly fishing isn’t exactly booming right now. Still, one segment is kicking butt, and that’s the women’s market. Women are taking to fly fishing in growing numbers, but they remain few enough that they still turn heads on the river — and in the fly shop.
For example, Cinda Howard […]

Drift boat too expensive? Too much work? Via that always-zany crew at the GoBlog comes news of the Russian Bubba Games — where 400 or so Russians floated down the Vuoksa River on inflatable dolls.

Notice the PFDs. When you’re talking inflatable dolls, it’s always Safety First.
We’re probably just spitballing ideas here, but a certain segment […]