Are saltwater fly fishermen overlooking the ocean’s fastest swimmers? If they’re not fishing for bacteria, they probably are…

No, this isn’t a fly fishing video.
Yes — especially in light of Saturday’s "pulp outdoors journalism" post — it’s a hilarious reminder that "pulp" outdoors journalism is alive and well (if refined a little) at the broadcast level.
Yes, it’s one of the best outdoor video spoofs I’ve seen.
And definitely, it may be the funniest […]

I’m a little too young to have truly experienced outdoor journalism’s pulp period, where every encounter with the wilderness became a Blood-Soaked Brush With Death.
As real outdoor journalism, it’s a joke, but as literature, it’s hugely entertaining high camp, and high camp pretty accurately describes Friday’s trip to the Upper Sacramento River… which became my […]

I need one more big project to clear the boards before firing up some fly fishing time, but instead of a Wonderdog-driven afternoon walk, I heaved the sausage-shaped mammal into the truck and reconnoitered a couple of spots on the upper river.
The gods Wonderdog is pleased, my friends. That means […]

Rogue and MacKenzie River drift boats and dories are elegant craft; writer Roger Fletcher has written a book detailing the history, use, and dimensions of those lovely craft.

Hawgdaddy at the TVA blog recounted the exposure of one of his “secret” spots on a fly fishing forum, and fired off what we’re calling “Fly Fishing Blogger One-Liner of the Week“:
“If you’re going to engage in such questionable behaviors as promiscuity and fly fishing, you ought at least be discreet about it.”
(I’d suggest promiscuity […]

[ED: This story courtesy of the Underground’s Director in Charge of Montana Fishing and Intellectually Challenged Whitefish. Enjoy.]
Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks requires new Conservation and Fishing licenses March 1. It’s as official and appropriate an opening of the new fishing season as anyone around Missoula requires.
And March 1 really is […]

I like artwork sketched fast, watercolors done bold. In fact, I’m more interested in my artist friend’s sketchbooks than their finished work.
That’s why Mark Liu’s Web site(s) caught my eye. His work offers a fun, spontaneous immediacy that avoids even a hint of the formal or stilted.
Sadly, what you miss when someone posts artwork online […]

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 […]

Should Leap Day become National Fly Fishing Leap Day? The Trout Underground’s crack legal team says it should…