bamboo fly rods,Fishing Report,Travel,Underground's Best

Hatch Repellent

Today we fished the Little River inside the park; some of this I'd seen on prior trips, but most of it was new to me. Rich Margiotta, myself, and Ian slunk around and tried to look like nice, safe, non-predatory beings to the fish, and I have to say it only worked part of the time. It's late, I'm beat, ...

By Tom Chandler 5/2/2006
Travel

Ready, set, fish

After what only seemed like forever, I'm safely tucked away at Rich Margiotta's house in Knoxville, TN. It's after midnight on Monday, which means my plane from Chicago was better than 2.5 hours late. It's hardly a secret that - like a souffle - I don't travel particularly well. In fact, if I wasn't ...

By Tom Chandler 5/1/2006
Travel

Fly the really, really friendly skies

I'm on the longest leg of my trip to Tennessee (which is to say I'm still in the airport after running the oh-so-dignified gauntlet of check-in and security), and because my flight's been delayed more than an hour (and aren't I glad I got up at 4:45), I'm enjoying the Disney-esque ambiance of yet another ...

By Tom Chandler 5/1/2006
Fishing Report,Travel

Tennessee's on

I wouldn't say I was 100% (in fact, I wouldn't say I was even 75%), but it's close enough. Hell, I can always get better on the river. Plus there's all that time spent relaxing in airports and airplanes to recover even more......

By Tom Chandler 4/30/2006
Travel

Diseases of mass destruction

I was chugging towards the start of my Tennessee trip but this morning the train sorta came off the rails. The annoying head cold turned into a fever, headache and other symptoms too graphic to describe in a family fly fishing site....

By Tom Chandler 4/29/2006
bamboo fly rods,Fishing Report,Upper Sacramento

The whompin, stompin, opening day blues

"Opening" day is fast becoming something of misnomer around much of CA; flows on the Upper Sac just topped the oh-so-unpleasant 5000 cfs mark, and yesterday, local guide Steve Bertrand sacrificed a few gallons of $3.21 gas to reconnoiter the McCloud. He reports water flowing over the McCloud reservoir ...

By Tom Chandler 4/28/2006
Fishing Report,Upper Sacramento

Upper Sac busting out

It's great to feel the sun again, but the warm temperatures are melting snow and pushing Upper Sac flows to pretty dizzying levels. We're approaching 5,000 cfs, and the trends don't look good. Fortunately - at least for those of us fishing Tennessee next week - the flows back there are coming down nicely. ...

By Tom Chandler 4/27/2006
Fishing Report

It's "Best of Sully" day

The Trout Underground is happy to announce a new (and subversive) Montana correspondent, who we'll refer to only by his code name of "Sully." Today I'm reprinting a report he sent a week ago, because I was basically too lazy to post it earlier. "Sully" has fished all over the West, and was doing it ...

By Tom Chandler 4/26/2006
bamboo fly rods

"Top Boo" Reality TV grips Northern California town

In a gripping race against the clock, bamboo rod builder Chris Raine - risking life-threatening bamboo slivers and potentially career-ending varnish burns - is rushing to complete a brook trout rod prior to Tom Chandler's upcoming trip to Tennessee....

By Tom Chandler 4/25/2006
Fishing Report,Uncategorized

Monday morning fishing furball

It's Monday - time for the weekend roundup of fishing rumor, innuendo and outright fabrication. What do I know? Not a hell of a lot, but what I don't know I'm willing to make up. It's the Internet...

Dave Edmondson ...

By Tom Chandler 4/24/2006
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