[ED: The first in a short series of reports from the FFR show about goodies that might not get a lot of press, but deserve to.]
While I remain a little skeptical of the practical advantages of large arbor reels, I bought one a few years ago — after Chris Raine and I started catching big, fast-moving fish […]

To the McDonalds fast food chain, a “fish” is square and comes in a bun. That’s why it surprised me when Alert Underground Reader and Assistant in Charge of Finding Signs of the Apocalypse Jim Troyer emailed pictures of these trout — mounted on the wall of a McDonalds in Bishop, CA.
 A McBrown Trout. Supersized.
We […]

It’s a message from the heavens, my friends — one so loud and clear even a blogger could hear it.
BWOs. Dry Flies. Big Trout.
See you on the drizzly river (we hope), Tom Chandler.
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Fly fishing’s rife with factions — most of whom know for a fact the members of the opposing splinter group were badly raised, cheat on their spouses, and rarely engage in personal hygiene.
It’s a fact of life in most human endeavors, and while it’s normally a contemptible thing, we frankly have to applaud Singlebarbed’s wholly creative […]

That 18″ trout feel a little lighter than the last one you caught? You’re not alone. Even the object used to define the Kilogram doesn’t weigh as much as it used to: 
The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight - if ever so […]

What’s waiting for you, my ravenous fly fishers? Damned little, but no problem — Moldy Chum somehow manages to find photographs of a tatooed, nearly naked woman engaged in acts of fly tying.

Not quite a year ago, I posted a gear review about my studded-rubber soled wading boots.
To recap, I went to studded rubber soles because hiking along the railroad tracks quickly wore the felt off my studded felt boots, leaving behind protruding carbide studs that skated dangerously on smooth rocks. 

Life is dangerous enough without adding […]

A battle is brewing over suction dredging — the activity where someone sucks up streambed gravel, attempts to filter out the gold and other heavy metals, and then cycles the rocks back into the water flow.
Miners say it’s harmless; fish advocates and biologists say it does harm fish habitat. I’d say the dangers are pretty clear […]

[UPDATE: There have been a couple complaints about this video playing every time the Underground comes up, so I did away with the Quicktime player and switched to the YouTube version.
In fly fishing, timing is everything. That’s why — when the Undergrounders fire up a discussion on the state of fly fishing videos — it’s […]

Introducing the Chile Underground — a “hot” (get it?) new blog written by a guy who likes to see sweat beading up on people’s foreheads the way we like to see trout porpoising on our dry flies.

Fly lines used to be simple stuff (it was “this one” or “that one”), but trying to pick a fly line nowadays is akin to playing chess blindfolded; the possibilities are largely endless, and it’s damned easy to get confused.

We start testing Rio and Scientific Anglers fly lines.
We’re in the midst of a full-blown technology/marketing […]

Brave, brave SingleBarbed. Putting his household iron (and domestic bliss) on the line, he posts yet another in his growing line of fly tying experiments with a shiny, heat-fusible material (angelina).
The results are interesting, at least in as much as he ties some interesting flies with the stuff, though frankly, we would have been far […]