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The Bamboo Underground, The Smartphone Edition In the past I’ve populated this site with bamboo fly rods, bamboo cars, bamboo clock radios — even pants made from bamboo. Basically, all the bamboo gear you’d need if you wanted to prove to your fly fishing buddies that you’re better than they are. Now we bring you the latest in high-tech gadgetry for the [...] Mammoth Learns What LA?s Water Thirst Feels Like The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is not on the Christmas Card list of a lot of Sierra towns, who struggle with the agency’s predatory approach to water. Mammoth wants to reposition the water gage it uses to measure flows in Mammoth Creek, and LADWP has filed suit challenging their right to do [...] Hot Recipe For Those Hatchery Steelhead: Pan Seared, Pecan-Encrusted Trout From that clearly questionable mind at the Chile Underground comes a Fish on Fridays recipe that might be just the ticket for that hatchery steelhead — Pan Seared, Pecan-Encrusted Trout. Sounds almost good enough to get me out to Lake Siskiyou, where the trout are stocked… We Do Carp Like Nobody Else Does Carp (from the always-entertaining Neversealand blog) Weekly Short Casts for 2012-02-02 Chi Wulff gives up a little love for the Superfine Touch fly rod too (near the bottom of the post): http://t.co/ugcECaAv # RT @michaeldoyle10: Removing 4 Klamath River dams could add jobs and aid fish, says Interior Dept. report. http://t.co/Y8QSY7XD # RT @randrflyfishing: Time lapse sunrise over the Smoky Mountains ahead of a massive front: [...] How To Turn Hackle And Dubbing Into Happiness? At the end of fly fishing trip, this is a good thing to see: In one sense, successful fly fishing is about turning hackle and dubbing into tiny little pieces of garbage, and while the numbers are hardly astonishing, Chris Raine and I did turn formerly useful #20 flies into what I’d suggest were a [...] The Underground?s ?2011 Fly Fishing Year In Pictures? Post Somewhere around the middle of December I lost steam on a “2011: The Year In Pictures” post, the problems being I didn’t have any time, and once I did, I realized I had damn few good pictures from 2011 (in the image department, it was nowhere near as good as 2009). Still, perspective adds a [...] What Russell Chatham?s ?The Angler?s Coast? Really Teaches Us An Undergrounder sent me an old hardback copy of Russell Chatham’s The Angler’s Coast, and while the writing is evocative and the stories interesting, the most intriguing aspect of the book was its look at fisheries that — in many cases — no longer exist. Chatham was something of a fly fishing bum and the [...] The Fly Rod Edition: Chasing The Upper Sacramento BWO Hatch Even the piteously overworked among us occasionally get to turn a couple spare hours into recreation, and with the Upper Sacramento peaking out at just over 1100 cfs and then falling to what I’ll suggest are wholly fishable levels, Older Bro and I made tracks for the nearest Potential BWO Hatch. Fortunately, we found one: [...] You?re Not Crazy Until The LA Times Says You Are? A half-dozen Alert Underground Readers forwarded this LA Times article about all the odd people living up here, and while I’m forced to point out we’re pretty accepting of crazy up here (witness the County Board of Supervisors), I have to admit the surge in Bigfoot sightings mentioned in the article is probably my fault. [...]