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Yes, but it’ll be a hearty welcoming mucous filled handshake
It makes me wonder how many world record fish I’ve caught and released unknowingly. I’d guess it’s linked to the concept of “life list” - all the species you’ve ever caught fishing by intent or accident. She set...
Yesterday at 11:02 pm  |  SingleBarbed

"But officer, I was only speeding to provide you road conditions, faster."
Listen up all you road warriors out there. I’m especially talking to those of you who drive those souped-up, tricked-out foreign little jobs with the huge after-market exhaust pipes. Typically these seem to be Hondas and Toyotas or possibly...
Yesterday at 09:43 pm  |  Sand Dollar Adventures

Enough caffeine in that cup to keep me amped for a fortnight
You’d figure a fellow nice enough to bring a bottle would get treated better, but not knowing I was getting paid for the excursion - I just took him to the semi-crappy spots. If I’d known there would be beef jerky, cigars, and real...
Saturday, November 29, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

He doesn’t move too fast after he’s been skewered
Scientists must be humorless SOB's to subject shrimp to a backpack and treadmill. What's surprising is the shrimp has the ability to run this sprint for hours, making me rethink any retrieve I might use while fishing a shrimp imitation. Have we...
Thursday, November 27, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

Happy Thanksgiving: eat, drink, and be merry; then go outside for some exercise-unless you are in Santa Monica.
This blog post is for the three of you who are not currently on the road driving to grandma’s house or are already sacked out on the couch from too much wine and too many helpings of tryptophan-laced turkey. We just arrived in Lake Tahoe for our...
Thursday, November 27, 2008  |  Sand Dollar Adventures

The Big Wood River Report: Jinxes, Trout, and Thanksgiving Turkey
On my first cast on the Big Wood river I found myself attached to a 13″ rainbow trout, and though it sounds like something I’d be thankful for (catch the holiday theme?), I shuddered a little after I let him go. That’s because...
Thursday, November 27, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Happy Thanksgiving
There’s football on the “Telly” - Ma’s in a panic in the kitchen, and your only responsibilities are to lounge around and overeat to the point of complete folly..   Here’s hoping everyone made it to your table...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

Fly Fishing the Big Wood River In an Hour
With any luck - and assuming I find all my gear - I’ll be fly fishing the Big Wood River in an hour or two, and though word has it the fishing’s pretty slow, it’s not as if that comes as a surprise. It’s pretty out - the...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

California Fish Stocking Order Raises Rural Hackles
California Fish & Game recently agreed to halt stocking of non-native species entirely in response to a lawsuit designed to force them to evaluate impacts of stocking on native species. Some suggested it was a huge overreaction designed to put...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Rivers in Motion: The Yellowstone
The lads at DryFly Media sent me a DVD entitled: “Rivers in Motion: The Yellowstone” - it’s a novel idea akin to “visual white noise” - the sights and sounds of the best stretches of your favorite river so you can be...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

Travel writers talking about travel writers talking about travel writing - will it ever end?
  I have noticed that travel blogs seem to have a few reoccurring themes. Drinking is definitely near the top of the list. My previous two posts were both about alcohol-related subjects, and if my definitive pieces are not prima facie evidence...
Monday, November 24, 2008  |  Sand Dollar Adventures

The most dangerous encounter a fly fisherman can expect?
I hadn’t ever considered the high risk nature of the hobby, but after reading the recital of ills, they missed tromping on medical waste while wading, but that’s a recent hazard - known only to us locals. There’s a lot we take...
Monday, November 24, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

Roughfisher and the Lost Graveyard of Antron Yarn
Snowbound and at wit’s end, Roughfisher grits his teeth and accompanies his bride shopping. At his darkest hour and with purse in hand he stumbles into the millinery aisle - to find the lost graveyard of Antron yarn. All us brownline types...
Monday, November 24, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

The Underground’s Monday On-The-Road Robo-Post
I’m on the road right now, but due to the magic of the Internet, I can automatically irritate interrupt add value to your day. For example - even though I’m probably gripping the wheel right now and wondering if that semi’s going...
Monday, November 24, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Redding Paper Profiles Dunsmuir Fly Fishing Legend Joe Kimsey
The Redding Record-Searchlight just ran a profile of Dunsmuir’s Joe Kimsey - the same Joe who can be found at the Ted Fay Fly Shop most days, cracking wise and tying flies. I wrote about a special fishing trip I took with Joe last season,...
Monday, November 24, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Monday Morning Update: Better settle in - the next happy hour may be further away than you think.
It seems like it was just a month ago I was bemoaning the fact that pubs in Great Britain were going out of business before I even could get there. Wait, that story WAS just a month ago. And now the ones that remain may be forced to curtail happy...
Sunday, November 23, 2008  |  Sand Dollar Adventures

Modern Dentistry lags angling by a couple of decades
Too many parallels between dentistry and fly fishing for me to feel entirely comfortable in the chair. I might get my big mitts in a fish's gob and snap a photo or two - but I don't insist on irradiating my prey or opt for the full panorama shot....
Sunday, November 23, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

Idaho for Thanksgiving: Fly Fishing the Big Wood River While It’s Still Warm Enough to Fish
Come Monday, the house sitter’s showing up, then the L&T, Wally the Wonderdog and I are loomin’ up the truck and heading for Ketchum, Idaho for Thanksgiving. Given the natural curiosity of the Undergrounders, I already know the...
Sunday, November 23, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

The re-emergent Thomas-Phelps-Xuron, it’s hard to keep a simple design in obscurity
The Xuron vise is being made again, it's the "general practitioner" of fly tying tools with a hundred years of history and a simple design that defies refinement. It's also one of the cheapest tools on the market and can accomodate all the oddball...
Sunday, November 23, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

The Post Where We Briefly Gossip About Local Stuff, Including A Great New Place To Eat
We’re going to stop the madness for a minute and revisit what might have been the Golden Age of Fly Fishing in Dunsmuir - those heady days when you could walk into Dunsmuir’s Gandy Dancer Cafe and buy one of the world’s alltime...
Friday, November 21, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog
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