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CalTrout Gala Set for May 8: Buy Me Something, Will Ya?

May 1, 2009, by Tom Chandler No comments yet

California Trout’s big May 8 fundraising gala at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco isn’t the kind of place you’ll find the Underground, being as I’m barely housebroken, don’t really own any nice clothes, and can’t afford the ticket.

Still, for the Undergrounders whose annual income exceeds mine (basically anything above four figures), it’d be a good time – and all for a good cause.

California Trout Gala: May 8

California Trout Gala: May 8 (click image to visit their site)

Over the past year, CalTrout has suffered the same depredations as any other nonprofit caught in the grips of a recession (though if they’d wake up the online marketing program a little bit, I think they’d be a happier organization), and they’re certainly worth supporting.

If it weren’t for them, we might not have any real McCloud Redbands left, and their comprehensive “SOS” report on California’s disappearing native fish species was a landmark production (download your own copy by clicking the image):

The cover is pretty, but the news for California's Native Fish isn't great... (click image to download a copy)

The cover is pretty, but the news for California's Natives isn't great... (click image to download a copy)

So sign up for the gala, slip on the ritzy duds, check out the hot babes in their evening wear mingle with other fly fishing geeks, and have a good time.

This concludes today’s public service announcement.

Thursday’s Drive-By Posting About Pizza, Brookies, and Bacon

March 5, 2009, by Tom Chandler No comments yet

I teach online marketing classes, and instead of skiing back up the snow road and hoping the Wonderdog doesn’t put me into the snowback, I’m putting the pedal to the metal getting a new presentation built. I’ve got a good bunch of students, which means I’ve gotta work extra-hard not to disappoint.

I’m late on the Class Stuff because I’ve been building behind-the-curtain Underground Stuff, and realizing life isn’t actually a box of chocolates (as Forrest noted); it’s more a series of dominoes, each one falling when the one before it decides to stop standing.

Still, I’m not so busy that I missed today’s Important, Life-Altering Fact: Americans graze their way through 100 acres of pizza every day.

Personally, I’d account for a half-acre all on my own if the L&T didn’t ride herd on me, which is yet more proof I married above myself.

What else have I got?

Way Upstream publishes a killer short poem (shame on you fly fishermen) and a photo. Be literate for a change and visit.

Ian Rutter wants 70 seconds of your day to put a good word in for the Tellico River’s Brook trout (the Underground loves Brookies), which are threatened by erosion and the resulting siltation. Get a move on, Undergrounders.

Bacon to Fry (one of Buster’s gang) writes about a bad forest plan and elegantly captures the frustration of fighting tooth and nail to preserve a watershed against stupidity and greed. Don’t miss it.

Proposed Timber Harvest, Wilson River, OR

Proposed Timber Harvest, Wilson River, OR

See you in class, Tom Chandler.

Happy News: CalTrout, Orvis, Fly Fishers Raise More Than $120,000 For Redband Trout Recovery

November 27, 2007, by Tom Chandler 6 comments

CalTrout’s McCloud Redband Trout recovery program got a serious boost when it was announced that Orvis and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation had matched better than $60,000 in private donations, raising a total of more than $120,000 for McCloud Redband Trout recovery projects.

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