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The Underground’s Short Casts for 2008-12-17


Casting for recovery announces retreat dates for 2009: http://tinyurl.com/56u8lp # Delta Smelt biological opinion could reduce Delta water exports by as much as 50%: http://aquafornia.com/archives/5963 # Ian Rutter offers “Tips to improve...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

I’d think they could get some good answers studying the folks living under high voltage transmission lines


Scientists are theorizing they can remap a salmon to a different home based on altering a magnetic signature. The theory is hypothetical yet - but it's only a matter of time before Donny Beaver pays for monstrous salmon runs on some lease-optioned...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

When exactly did Normal Weather get supplanted by Global Weirding?


O.K., the term Global Weirding is not an original idea of mine. I happen to see it in a comment on a Huffington Post bit of an AP story on the recent weird occurrence of snow–up to 8 inches of it–right in New Orleans.   “NEW...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008  |  Sand Dollar Adventures

Will Fly Fishermen See a Vaccine for Giardia?


Via the zany gang at the GetOutdoors blog, we heard the good news - that a vaccine for Giardia may be in the offing (though not right away). For those unfamiliar with it, Giardia is a parasite that infects fly fishermen (as well as human beings)...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Underground Adds “One Year Ago” Widget to Sidebar


Look way over at the right of the page - right there at the top of the rightmost sidebar, just under the search box. (Go ahead, I’ll wait here while you do it.) You’re looking at the Trout Underground’s latest attempt to recycle...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Underground World Headquarters Cold, and Getting Colder (or, The Icedog Cometh)


It’s 8 degrees outside and in a stunning display of bad timing, we’re in the process of replacing the heating system at the Trout Underground/Man Cave World Headquarters. Sadly, the new system’s not operational, the old...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2008-12-16


Washington trout poacher loses boat, gear as judge kicks butt - all told in Haiku by Fish Hack blogger (TU fav): http://tinyurl.com/6r9owt # BLM opens 1 million acres of SW Alaska to mining, timbering, hopes nobody will notice (we did):...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

War on Six Dollar Items - Head Cement


Head Cement is rebottled vinyl cement or lacquer, rather than pay top dollar for a common household item, buy a quart of fine grade lacquer and decant your own bottles.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2008-12-15


Asian carp within 45 miles of Great Lakes - $9 Million Corp of Engineers electric fence still not working: http://tinyurl.com/54sttg # In time for Christmas! Singlebarbed uncovers the “Wunder Boner” fish cleaning tool (no, we...
Monday, December 15, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Finer than human hair, shiny as baby seal, and colors like the peacock


Mother Nature just doesn’t color critters that way. Natural feathers and fibers might have a range of three or four shades from tip to arse, some strident color down the center as in furnace or badger, but the complete color wheel within a...
Monday, December 15, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

The Upper Sacramento Fly Fishing Report in Pictures


It’s a busy Monday, so yesterday’s fishing report comes to you mostly in the form of pictures - the kind that reveal a lot more about the experience than they do the flies or gear used. The facts? No Blue Winged Olive were seen, and...
Monday, December 15, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime


Rather than pay for enforced idleness, why not bailout the West Coast commercial salmon fishery with a couple natural harbors and leftover Iraqi ordinance? These lads would be the poster child for self sufficiency.
Sunday, December 14, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

Hold onto your Sombrero - "It’s" coming, and it’s big!


Sometimes you really don’t know you should have been scared when you should have been. And a corollary to that might be that you don’t always know when you barely escaped a close call with death, dismemberment, loss of cell phone...
Sunday, December 14, 2008  |  Sand Dollar Adventures

Fly Fishing the Upper Sac: Offered Without Further Comment


Report to follow.
Sunday, December 14, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2008-12-12


Delaware basin anglers fight flow management plan that saw Delaware dropped from 900 cfs to 100 cfs in one day: http://tinyurl.com/6gexcv # Bush giving Redrock Wilderness to energy biz (who can’t drill what they have). Donate 20 seconds to...
Friday, December 12, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

It’s the invention destined to make Catch and Release agreeable to the most hardened killer


Take a proud and noble prey and reduce it to a “turd” of shapeless fish flesh? The Wunder Boner is the greatest argument for catch and release ever devised… Not even McDonalds has the nerve to display how a Fillet of Fish...
Friday, December 12, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

The Friday Fly Fishing Follies at the Underground - the King of All Fly Fishing Media


After a couple of heavy-duty enviro/industry posts have worn out the Undergrounders, I thought we’d fire up a Friday Follies post, where we not only celebrate the odd, but the weird as well. The Trout Underground Rockets to Stardom, Again...
Friday, December 12, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2008-12-11


Wyoming outfitter charged with shooting an eagle at his pond after anonymous tipster turned him in: http://tinyurl.com/5cn66r # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Thursday, December 11, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog

Perhaps the most important addition to your fly fishing arsenal


OptiFade was one of the best purchases I’ve ever made, and the discovery that dipping the gear in the Little Stinking’s effluent adds a watery sheen - has made it an integral part of my fly fishing arsenal. OptiFade is a new optical...
Thursday, December 11, 2008  |  SingleBarbed

The Underground’s Short Casts for 2008-12-10


Environmental Law Journal dedicates issue to dam removal: http://aquafornia.com/archives/5865 # Grist Magazine interviews Ted Turner, the Bison-loving conservationist many love to hate: http://www.grist.org/feature/2008/12/08/index.html # Moldy...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008  |  Underground Fly Fishing Blog


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