I reported (two posts down) that the restoration efforts on the Batten Kill were going to proceed without state stocking of rainbow trout (further stressing an already pressured fish population in marginal habitat).
If you’re not current on this story, several organizations (including Trout Unlimited and Orvis) were funding habitat restoration efforts on the river when […]

Dust off the asbestos waders, it’s hot up here! Forecasts are calling for temps in the 100+ neighborhood (that’ s not a good neighborhood), and reports from the river suggest our “morning and night” pattern might be going into suspended animation. Chris Raine reports few bugs on his usually reliable evening spots. The lakes, baby. […]

The Trout Underground began life as a fishing report on Chris Raine’s uppersac.com Web site, but Chris quickly figured out that a fishing report actually encourages people to fish “his” river, which was the last thing he wanted.
So he turned uppersac.com over to me, and I quickly built the Trout Underground. I wanted a more […]

The Upper Sac appears to be fishing very well, and damnit, tonight I’m finding out for myself. During my lastest work binge I’ve been hearing reports from others about the fishing. Not an altogether pleasant sensation, but one I’m rectifying tonight. The big decision seems to be this: hunting big fish with the Golden Stone, […]

I’d love to write about the big fish I landed the last two nights (since my Wednesday night foray), but in truth I’ve been in work-related hibernation the last few days, and haven’t yet come up for air. Like any self-employed person, I’m prone to periodic bouts of insecurity based on the idea that if […]

I’m on a backcountry jag lately, but the reward has been largely scenery-based. My two alpine lakes have produced exactly one fish (which should lead you to an obvious conclusion about yesterday’s trip to Toad Lake). Didn’t get on the water until late afternoon, but it looked interesting. A handful of Callibaetis littered the surface, […]

Moving on Up…
A couple nights ago, someone (somewhere) clicked a mouse, and the Trout Underground had its first 10,000+ visit month (by the end of today, it will be closer to our first 11,000 visit month). In the larger Internet sense that’s pocket change, but it’s certainly enough to blow my ego all out of […]

My brother called and said I sounded a little beat up in my last couple posts, so in response, today is Good News Friday! (Well, we’ve got some Stupid News too, but at least that’s fun).
Like Water for Money…
Meant to post this one a couple days ago but it got lost in the shuffle; […]

Everybody has their weak spots, and lately, mine seems to be getting a good night’s sleep. As anyone with a real knack for insomnia can tell you, around day three, things start looking pretty surreal, almost as if you were viewing the world through a pair of abused rental eyes working in concert with a […]

As the Upper Sac falls to 1400 cfs flows and the river begins to open up, I’m stuck at my cluttered desk trying to make heads or tails of keyword research for a client. I’d cry, but run the risk of shorting the keyboard and delaying things even more. Next week, however, the evenings are […]

While I remain trapped in my chair by the weight of multiple deadlines, there’s been a veritable flood of Underground-worthy news sent by Alert Readers. It’s a weird, weird world out there, and at the Underground, we’re dedicated to making that as clear as possible to you.
When I die, I want to go to heaven […]

I’m laying words end-to-end in an ongoing attempt to stave off a visit from Guido, but in the spirit of embracing diversity, I wanted to invite our Underground Lurkers to post comments. The Trout Underground visitor numbers continue to grow rapidly, and though our readership is peanuts compared to the really big sites, for a […]