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It’s not as if I’m supremely confident or anything, but I figure I’m a lock to win a three-man Creek Company pontoon boat.
After all, my slacker overemployed readers are too lazy busy to go to the Creek Company Web site and register to win the thing, so the final drawing will simply be a […]

If it’s one thing the Underground’s all about, it’s our committment to delivering better than you puffs deserve lots of free stuff.
After I put an extremely valuable well, free copy of Patrick McManus’ Kerplunk! on the line, we spared no expense in our search for a cheap and easy unimpeachably fair method of determining a […]

Has the recession, high gas prices, mortgage crisis or other bad news changed your fly fishing plans for 2008?

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 […]

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

The Trout Underground announced the launch of Catch.com — an online dating service aimed exclusively at fly fishermen (and fisherwomen) who are basically too pathetic to get dates the normal way. Genius, baby. Genius.

You’ve no doubt been holding your breath — waiting to see which of you lucky bastards was going to win a free copy of Patrick McManus’ new book Kerplunk.

Because we’re all about high-tech here at the Underground, I found a Random Number Generator that uses atmospheric “noise” to generate truly random numbers.
This impressively scientific […]

This weekend, the L&T Nancy will pick a random number, and one of you will weep for joy when you receive the news: you’re the lucky winner of Patrick McManus’ new book of humorous outdoor essays — Kerplunk.