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, while the earnest young chap insists he’s onboard … he’s got the [...]

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 couple seasons away from being a genome hidden in a long bank of drawers buried [...]

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 becoming aware of the festivities and the consumption of night before last’s leftovers, some [...]

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 range of sizes and the popular sizes are being blown [...]

While the blaring indictments no longer grace the newspapers, it appears another executive has been indicted in what remains of the Madoff debacle.
Our interest has always been in Mark Madoff and his ownership of the Abel Automatics Inc., the maker of Abel reels.
Investigators and the trustee winding down Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC [...]

It started with some small pretense of fairness, Senator Feinstein’s call for a review of the environmental opinion on the Sacramento Delta, an effort to ferret out the “flawed science” that dared put fish before the needs of farms and her pals at the Westland’s Water district.
… while most of us fishermen assumed it [...]

Patronizing my local fly shop has never been a issue. Guys like me always look for the rack of shopping carts when we enter – despite already owning everything.
While online shopping dominates the day to day replacements and flights of fancy, my stern rule is always drop a double sawbuck at the destination shops [...]

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 [...]

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  …

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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 the [...]