Chasing a March Brown hatch based on a thin rumor is like chasing ghosts in broad daylight; the odds for success are slim, and the opportunity for drama almost non-existent.
Still, when you’ve spent the last couple weeks staring at the several feet of snow outside your office window, chasing a ghost hatch is as much [...]

The ongoing furball in Redding about the Cypress Avenue Bridge repair project — which wasn’t designed with boat passage in mind and threatened to close the Lower Sacramento River to boat traffic — has taken on a new dimension as a city-council appointed panel has recommended partial closure of the river at higher flows:
Redding would [...]

Does sensational media coverage taint people’s perception of the outdoors to the point that they’re simply afraid of it?

I stumbled across an excellent podcast series that asks this very question (via Tom Mangan’s hiking blog). The two-part podcast is worth a listen (Sargeant’s stuff largely kicks ass), as are these excerpts of reader comments on [...]

Ted Williams touches on an issue I’ve long wondered about; why are so many environmental groups blind to fish issues?
You’ll find support for fisheries popping up in extreme circumstances (salmon runs collapsing, etc), but by and large, fishermen and fisheries groups (like CalTrout and TU) are on their own, or living an uneasy partnership [...]

It’s not as if I try to appear all snooty and literary all the time, it’s just that I’m so damned intelligent, I can’t help it.
Today’s obscure literary reference is about a just released book of love poems, and hell, we like the cover:

Sure, love poems might not rank high on the reading list for [...]

The Internet is a great medium for disseminating information to large groups of people, but, sadly, not everyone uses that power for Good instead of Evil.
For example, we present a list of “spring-is-here” bloggers singled out for special attention because in the paranoid, multiple-personality, spring-fevered world of the Trout Underground, they’re taunting me.
Yes, me. Directly.

They’re [...]

At Trout Underground/Man Cave World Headquarters we eat slaw dogs on a regular basis, so it’s hard to ride too high on the horse when it comes to making sport of other’s culinary preferences, though frankly, that’s never stopped us in the past.
Via the exceptional Blogfish Ocean Blog comes this news item about… Live [...]

Win an HMH Spartan Fly Tying Vise and Tube Fly Converter in this free contest.

Those sleepless caffeine abusers at Moldy Chum found an Alaskan writer who pretty much opens fire on fishing with pegged beads (pegged 2″ above a bare hook).
Apparently, I slept through the development of this particular technique, and didn’t particularly see the big deal until I got to this part:
Just lob that dangling bare hook and [...]