Fish & Game wanted non-native, highly predatory pike out of Lake Davis
If you’ve ever experienced an insatiable urge to freeze your ass off ice fishing for stocked trout, then this story will make you very, very happy. From the Redding Record Searchlight:
Even though frozen over, fishing has resumed on Lake […]

While I’m not turning the Underground into the Fly Fishing Industry Gossip Blog, I’ve already posted a pair of articles about fly fishing’s trade show wars — specifically the Metal Cage Chainsaw Death Match between Denver’s The Fly Fishing Show (headed by Chuck Furimsky) and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association’s (AFFTA) just-launched show.
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If I added up the last four days’ worth of snowblower time, I’d probably cry (but I wouldn’t because that’s not manly or anything).
Still, somebody’s gotta live up here and keep an eye on next year’s trout water; look away — even for a minute — and some living-dead multinational like Nestle starts siphoning […]

Comedian Lewis Black rips on bottled water in the first half of this hilarious piece. Substitute “Nestle” for “Aquafina” and you’ll get the drift…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNGWn-aWn5g

If you’ve spent any time at all in Dunsmuir, you might have met Larry Baker — local real estate blowhard and bad cafe owner.
It was no secret that Baker was a trout poacher of impressive proportions, but it wasn’t until game warden Joe Powell arrived that Baker got caught (and caught bigtime).
Before Baker […]

In a short e-mail sent today, Fly Rod & Reel magazine’s Managing Editor Jim Reilly announced he was already in his last days as Managing Editor of the magazine. This announcement comes only a few months after long-time editor Paul Guernsey left the magazine.
 
It’s likely the two departures are unrelated, but yes, I’m bummed — […]

Women represent a sizable (and fast-growing) chunk of fly fishing’s huddled masses, yet — with a few exceptions — they’re not much represented in the magazines, and women in fly fishing’s "celebrity elite" are more curiosity than commonplace (then again, maybe they’re too smart to become fly fishing "celebs").
If it’s one thing we stand for […]