Photo courtesy Tamanawis blog (we hope)
I’m starting to become mesmerized by the idea of fishing Scotland, especially when the Tamanawis blog describes the terrain in terms like this:
The North is really about the lochs. There are thousands of them, scattered all across the land and each one with a particular character. It’s probably a good […]

The lake trout population in Yellowstone Lake continues to grow — even as biologists gill-net more than 73,000 of the Yellowstone Cutthroat-eating things this season. From the Billings Gazette (found via Ralph Maughan’s Wildlife News):
At Yellowstone National Park, the uphill struggle continues to catch and kill as many non-native lake trout as possible to preserve […]

Once again, the Trout Underground leaves no rock unturned in our search for ways to boost traffic make your life better — in this case by dusting the rugged, wild, dirty backcountry with a hint of… sex….
The Best Hike blog touches on this randy new territory with a post about a probably overhyped book called […]

Back in April, I wrote a post about the Fluvial Grayling — and the politically motivated attempts to keep it off the endangered species list. The US Fish & Wildlife Service simply ignored the reams of good science and essentially said there isn’t any difference between the fluvial and other species of Grayling (false).
That excuse […]

A “thanks” to the Fishing Jones blog for joining us in our fight to protect our legal stream access rights.

Some would say this battle is simply a local issue, but of course, it’s not. What’s being tried here has been tried other places (Donny Beaver? Montana?), and while those behind the threats to your stream access […]

If you follow the Underground, you know we’re smack in the middle of a battle to keep the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors (BOS) from approving a “Natural Resources Policy” that eliminates your legal right to fish the rivers in Siskiyou County — including the McCloud and Upper Sacramento.

This would be illegal if some have […]

I’m no distance caster — and feel that way too much is made of the ability to cast an entire fly line. (Macho posturing, anyone?) But like most people, I find competitive casting — and the people who compete — interesting as hell.
That’s why this on-camera interview with 36-time champion caster Steve Rajeff caught […]

I seems my close, personal friends at AT&T mucked up our phone switching order twice — so I’m on slow, slow dialup access (a 21st century guy living at 20th Century speeds). But at least I’m back online (for a while, that didn’t look like a sure thing).
I’m back, but sadly, I’m not doing any heavy online lifting; […]

Work is being done, boxes are being packed, and the BWOs are hatching without me, a heart-rending thought that plagues every fly fisher at one point or another.
I mean, the nerve of those bugs and fish — hatching and feeding – while I’m trapped in the alternate reality that is “civilized” life.
Civilized, my ass.
You know […]

Good news from Maryland; they took out a small dam and opened five more miles of the Potomac. If they can do it there, we can do it here… 
(AP) CUMBERLAND, Md. Fish will be free to spawn in a five-mile section of the Potomac River after Tuesday’s removal of a rock dam in the river’s North Branch […]

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for — when the Underground recognizes Exceptional Achievement in Naming a Truly Mediocre Dry Fly While Under the Influence of Medication.
First, a few words of thanks to everyone who took the time to enter: You’re all Sociopaths Winners.
Honestly, you people scare me, and if you think I’m moving […]

When you get a little behind on your posting, people assume you’re lollygagging in front of the television, stuffing handfuls of potato chips into your mouth and washing them down with pureed Twinkies and Diet Coke.
If only the truth were that pretty.
What is true is the Trout Underground’s World is turning upside down; we’re cramming […]