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The Underground’s Short Casts for 2010-03-12
The Underground wants one of these: Custom fly fishing office… http://bit.ly/cyohGm # Trout Underground gets PC Today's "Fun Site of the Day" award. (It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy) http://bit.ly/9FJaFy # Fly fishermen...
Today at 03:00 am  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

TU’s Official Point & Shoot Digital Camera On Sale Now (or, The Such A Deal Dept)
Alert Underground Reader Gary pointed out the Underground’s Favorite Cheap, Waterproof, Point & Shoot Camera is on sale for $174 (the Pentax Optio W80), and because our single biggest concern in life is our reader’s happiness, we...
Today at 12:07 am  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

It would’ve taken the angling world by storm
Visions of me and Rachel Ray, the soft tinkle of fine crystal and a dusty carafe of aged spirits – small-talking our way through the commercial break … The book signings, the adoring fans, followed by the reality show and ample syndication...
Yesterday at 11:00 pm  |  SingleBarbed

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2010-03-11
Legislation proposes making Chinook California's "Official State Endangered Species" (Jab at Feinstein?) http://bit.ly/91fxvT # Underground discussion of felt-soled vs rubber-soled wading boots (http://bit.ly/8Yi6Dv) mentioned on Orvis...
Thursday, March 11, 2010  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

The dawn of the Boutique fish
With all the genes being sprayed at the tasty fish we should’ve known eventually we might get something other than a soft docile lump, content with pellet feed and milling aimlessly within its concrete lined habitat. All the gnashing of teeth...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010  |  SingleBarbed

EPIC
Winter fun abounds: one state – five days – two canyons – four ski resorts, and yes, it WAS epic. I know that some people feel that word—epic—is too often used, particularly when describing a day of skiing or riding (a.k.a....
Wednesday, March 10, 2010  |  Sand Dollar Adventures

Roderick Haig-Brown’s “A River Never Sleeps” Reissued in Hardback (or, We Cheer)
Roderick Haig-Brown’s “A River Never Sleeps” is rightly considered a fly fishing classic, which is why the release of a new hardback edition – complete with passages from Nick Lyons and Thomas McGuane – is worth a...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Your Honor, a poor knot doesn’t imply premeditation
As a really tasty “pain and suffering” verdict could be in excess of twenty million, now’s the time to look hard at your legal staff. I’ll be sprawled amidst all that oak and cow leather sending another smoke ring towards the ceiling fan,...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010  |  SingleBarbed

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2010-03-09
Meet your new Mammalian Overlords – rabid Otter viciously attacks Florida man: http://bit.ly/abdQjb # High Country News weighs in on Westlands Irrigation District & Feinstein's water grab (hint: it's not pretty) http://bit.ly/boZ14b...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

California Bill proposes Chinook as “official state endangered species”
Nothing like getting all sentimental about a fish on the brink. Absence making the heart fonder with the “P” factor – some deep political agenda in some codicil of parchment from a Mexican land grant. Now that the California Chinook is a...
Monday, March 8, 2010  |  SingleBarbed

Fishing’s so good they were jumping in the boat
… sure we poo-poo wild claims of fellow anglers, but that was in those hardship years of your youth, pre-Silverfin. The water was clear, the fish were refined and a meal was skill-based and the work of an evening. Now angling will be...
Monday, March 8, 2010  |  SingleBarbed

When Winter Runs Too Long (or, When Fishing For Non-Trout Species Looks Appealing)
It’s at this point in the winter – fresh out of patience, the snow is still falling, and others are seeing their spring hatches already – that alternate forms of fly fishing seem more reasonable. As in very alternate. As in...
Monday, March 8, 2010  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2010-03-08
Ireland's bass sport fishery under threat from a push to renew commercial fishing: http://bit.ly/90rO3R # Powered by Twitter Tools Technorati Tags: fishing, Fly Fishing
Monday, March 8, 2010  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2010-03-08
Ireland's bass sport fishery under threat from a push to renew commercial fishing: http://bit.ly/90rO3R # Powered by Twitter Tools Technorati Tags: fishing, Fly Fishing
Monday, March 8, 2010  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

The obsessions of Anthony Bourdain will be televised.
Episode Number: “who knows, who cares” of my coverage of the Travel Channel’s weekly No Reservations show. This week’s program takes a departure from the norm of being geographically grounded and opts for one that is gastronomically...
Sunday, March 7, 2010  |  Sand Dollar Adventures

DEET replaced by tiny Rubberband?
Peering into scientific research is a mixed bag – every so often your knees come together involuntarily and you find yourself siding with PETA or their insect equivalent. For fishermen all we need know is the next generation of mosquito...
Sunday, March 7, 2010  |  SingleBarbed

The Director turns to you and asks, “fluorocarbon or regular Mono?”
Most of you missed the most important Oscar of the evening. It wasn’t Best Picture or Best Plastic Surgeon, rather it was the Oscar for Most Lifelike Portrayal of an Inanimate Object by an Out of Work Angler… Somewhere between your groggily...
Sunday, March 7, 2010  |  SingleBarbed

Them big hammy feet get shod on the cheap
With the manufacturers eager to adopt the trend away from felt soled boots, those of you interested in one last set – or adding a travel set for foreign waters, should be moving on that purchase. Most of the fly shops no longer have the full...
Saturday, March 6, 2010  |  SingleBarbed

Move along, nothing to see here. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
I was going to call this SDA—as in Sand Dollar Adventures—2.0, but that would be an overstatement as to its significance. Let’s just call this more of an enhancement, of sorts…or maybe it’s an alternate form of mental torture,...
Friday, March 5, 2010  |  Sand Dollar Adventures

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2010-03-05
Knives, forks & spoons for anglers? (Another sign of the fishing apocalypse): http://www.wayupstream.com/2010/03/perfect-gift.html # Yet another reason skiing will always be bigger than fly fishing: The 2010 Lange Ski Girls…...
Friday, March 5, 2010  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog
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