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The Underground - Facing Certain Fiery Death by Volcano - Thinks Only of His Fly Fishing Readers
By Tom Chandler 5/19/2010
You go to sleep one night in your bed - feeling safe and warm - and wake up the next morning to discover you're balanced on a razor's edge between life and a fiery death.
At least if you believe what you read in National Geographic (I only get it for the articles).
They published their much-anticipated list of
America's Ten Most Dangerous Volcanoes.
It turns out I live
smack on the flank of #5.
Surely, the vision of the keyboard that delights and amuses both my readers my massive readership lying mangled under tons of flesh-vaporizing, molten rock surely causes concern (if not outright consternation).
(Note to self: I always knew I was a risk-taker - one of those dangerous, bad-boy types that chicks should have thrown themselves at in high school. Sadly, proof of this comes 30 years too late.)
Here's What This News Means To You
With both the McCloud and Upper Sacramento Rivers virtually certain to disappear under a 450 mph river of 1800-degree gas and debris - parboiling the trout and making rollcasting difficult - the Undergrounders are left with one inescapable truth.
Drop everything you're doing right now.
And go fishing on the Upper Sacramento or McCloud. Before the volcano makes wading impossible. (Wading on magma: felt or rubber?)
See you casting into the fiery pit, Tom Chandler
Tom Chandler
As the author of the decade leading fly fishing blog Trout Underground, Tom believes that fishing is not about measuring the experience but instead of about having fun. As a staunch environmentalist, he brings to the Yobi Community thought leadership on environmental and access issues facing us today.