Posts tagged: memorial day weekend

The Underground’s Pre-Memorial Weekend Poll: Are You Staying Home, or Going Fly Fishing?

May 21, 2009, by 31 comments

Last year, high gas prices dominated the “I usually go fly fishing this weekend, but now I’m staying home” discussions on the Trout Underground.

This year, we’re facing a cratering economy, yet the Underground’s hearing words like “epic” and “slabs” used in relation to the McCloud and Pit Rivers right now. And while those poor schlubs near Yellowstone are seeing off-the-chart flows, other parts of the country seem to be looking pretty good.

So who’s going fishing?

And because the Trout Underground has decided to become the National Blogospheric Leader in Scientifically Laughable Surveys and Sociological Analysis, we’re crafting a simple, two-part test for our lab rat readership the Undergrounders:

  • Part A: Are you staying home this Memorial Day Weekend, or taking a trip?
  • Part B: Is the economy affecting your Memorial Day plans?

As always, the Undergrounders are expected to ace the multiple choice (the poll) while still excelling in the essay section (the reader comments section).

What’s the gig, Undergrounders. Do you stay or do you go?

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The Memorial Day Wrapup Post: Where’d The Undergrounders Fish?

May 27, 2008, by 17 comments

In keeping with my tendency to stay the hell away from public places over the Memorial Day Weekend, I laid about, wrote, and trimmed the hell out of some of the many, many trees on the Trout Underground/Man Cave World Headquarters property.

The L&T and I made a Grand Entrance at Wayne & Myrna’s house for a Saturday evening barbecue (nobody applauded, a regrettable breach of protocol), where Noted Underground Juvenile Delinquent Commentor Smellslikefish produced barbecued chicken that made the taste buds stand at attention.

Of course, just because I drank beer and picked my navel clean doesn’t mean the Undergrounders stayed home: what’s the tally on the fishing adventures of the Underground’s Readers?

Anyone want to fess up to a skunking? A killer dry fly hatch? A location? Feeling smug?

Now’s the time. The floor’s yours, Undergrounders.