You take the green Nyquil and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red Nyquil and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. I don’t think someone sits down to invent anything, genius just doesn’t function that way. [...]

This is TC of the Trout Underground (the fool who hosts Singlebarbed so all you malcontents will have a place to hang out together, leaving the rest of us alone), and I won’t go into the gritty details about what’s been happening beneath the surface here at Singlebarbed’s blog. Suffice it to say we’ve struggled [...]

The next 24-48 hours things may be a little dicey, as Singlebarbed moves from it’s existing web host to a new vendor. This will require a domain name change (DNS) that will have to propagate over to other servers to update the site’s IP address and locale. What that means in simple terms is that [...]

Fog is starting to lift and I’m gripped with the fervor. A slim chance of fishing this weekend – and unsure whether the ills of recent server issues are behind us… We’ll test her out by slamming a big JPEG or two into the deep end and see if she holds. The cure for the [...]

I call it an enforced vacation, wherein the server dies screaming and the Trout Underground spends the next 48 hours with phone glued to his ear dealing with unrepentant tech support types … … which I find funny, as I are one … Apparently most of the data was lost after last Friday, but as [...]

Most of you swore next season would see you with fly boxes bulging – and absolutely nothing has been accomplished despite the mighty oaths to the contrary. I’ve always used the Exorcist model of offseason restock – wherein book or article induced “possessions” fight over my immortal soul, and the result is one less agonizing [...]

They have heard the countless stories interspersed with Catch & Release holiness that excuses physical proof. Buddies and in-laws whistle appreciatively while stories of fish hooked, held, and lost are offered with grainy digital images featuring out-thrust arms that skew proportions, motion blur where fish should be – and large splashes where the shy yet [...]

A Saturday scout in between rain showers. The Little Stinking, swollen and defiant… Bagged it in preference to assembling an artery hardening ensemble of deep fried, coagulated, and partially hydrogenated Superbowl chow. It was the Czech’s against the Slovak’s at my place – and the first quarter featured Strawberry Yogurt Pretzels and  … … Brachycentrus, [...]

We’re ill prepared to encounter someone interested in our fish – where our attempts to catch them interfere with others trying to photograph or paint fish in their natural surroundings. As the Pristine dwindles it’s likely to put a great number of heretofore invisible wildlife lovers squarely in our path. and begs the question, who gets first dibs at the quarry? Considering we’ve [...]

It was all in the timing. My latest read is about the spread of that most egregious invasive – how the Rainbow Trout has pillaged most continents (ably assisted by well meaning anglers) – enroute to world domination … … and up till now it’s been a source of interest, as my California streams provided [...]