I’d hoped the Trout Unlimited’s new TV show (On the Rise) would live up to its lively, interesting trailer, escaping the straightjacket that limits most of fly fishing’s TV efforts.
Sadly, I just caught Madison River episode, and it fell far short.

The trailer is cool, but the episode is disappointingly stiff and slow moving.
While […]

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 […]

Nowadays, you seemingly can’t publish a fishing video unless it’s shot somewhere you’d need a helicopter or a couple dozen machete-wielding porters to reach.
In truth, fish porn — in the absence of any real insight — pretty much bores the hell out of me, but I am willing to make an exception when the folks […]

The Onion is a hilarious satirical site, and this video absolutely kills it — unless, of course — you’re one of the many Undergrounders who sometimes fly fishes below Folsom Dam…
Preemptive Memorial Honors Future Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster
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I’m no distance caster — and feel that way too much is made of the ability to cast an entire fly line. (Macho posturing, anyone?) But like most people, I find competitive casting — and the people who compete — interesting as hell.
That’s why this on-camera interview with 36-time champion caster Steve Rajeff caught […]

The talents behind “Fishizzle” are apparently hard at work on something new. Here’s the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl5W60kuVTY

I catch huge fish all the time (while fishing from my luxury barge and getting fanned by attractive women), but the rest of you will probably be impressed by the somewhat impressive breadth of these specimens — and some of the […]

[UPDATE: There have been a couple complaints about this video playing every time the Underground comes up, so I did away with the Quicktime player and switched to the YouTube version.
In fly fishing, timing is everything. That’s why — when the Undergrounders fire up a discussion on the state of fly fishing videos — it’s […]

It’s only a three minute trailer from Felt Soul Media, but it nicely sums up the looming battle over the huge Bristol Bay salmon fisheries — what could become one of the pivotal environmental battles of our times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_TzBju8rU

Felt Soul produced last year’s “Running Down the Man” video, which made obsession seem somehow reasonable. Will we […]

It’s hard getting traction for salmon recovery; they’re slimy fish after all — not baby harp seals. Still, we may have stumbled on the secret: Hip Hop Salmon.
Once we’ve Disneyfied Salmon, recovery is assured.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJEacTZmd7I

(via Blogfish)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLJYigWchf0

Years ago, I worked as a photojournalist in Southern California, and part of the gig was shooting the wildfires that raced through the tinder-dry brush. Once I photographed a fire in a small valley: the air grew very still, the fire seemed to stall, the valley grew hotter, and eventually, the the 12-foot high brush […]

This one’s making the rounds, and all I can say is, this is why I’d rather not see Northern Pike wash out of Davis Lake and down into the CaliforniaDelta.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI71Hsy_PaU

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz0tEONDslk

Ian & Charity Rutter appear regularly on the posts of the Trout Underground (whether they want to or not), but this time it’s not because I’m tramping around their part of the country and eating their food.
They just launched a new Web site (complete with “Fishing Report” blog), and also fired up a new video […]