The Underground Christmas: What Did The Undergrounders Get?
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Fly fishing related gifts are fun to receive, but they come with a certain degree of danger.
After all, you could end up hitting the cold, wintry river with the fly rod you dropped seventy-odd hints about, but you might also end up looking for a place to store that gold-leafed “fly fisherman in a storm” snow globe.
Life, we can see, is not without significant risk.
So here’s your chance to weigh in about your fly fishing holidays. What was the haul, Undergrounders (good or bad)?
Who, Me?
I’ll just say it out loud — it was score time at the Underground. I received some absolutely vital, high-necked, long-sleeved wicking shirts — the base layer stuff that’s essential on cold, wintry rivers.
My existing supply was growing more threadbare by the trip — the seams threatening to go the way of all flesh — so the shiny new specimens are much appreciated
Also in the Holiday Haul were a trio of wire map racks, which the savvy fly fisher knows can become ideal upright rod tube storage. They’re the perfect addition to the roomy new Man Cave, which isn’t yet pretty, but it is big.
Soon to be assembled — upright rod tube racks.
Then, Alert Underground Reader and Fly Fishing Blogger Murdock threw us a big bone in the form of a flyfishmagazine.com streamer box — something I don’t have and clearly could use, what with streamers occupying a top spot on the 2008 “Learn how to fish these, stupid” list.
Murdock blessed us with a streamer box. (See below)
In addition, Alert Underground Reader and Rod Building Consultant Rich Margiotta — knowing of my love of all things chile verde — sent along a case of green chiles from the New Mexican Connection.
You’ll see more of these when the Underground publishes its Manly Chile Verde recipe. It’s not one of those whoossie tomatillo sauce versions — it’s the thick, hearty kind made with beer, and it fairly reeks of manly testosterone.
Don’t miss it. (And thanks, Rich.)
Despite the fact this is one of the few days of the year when you can legitimately expect to fish the Upper Sacramento and find your guides icing up, I’m stuck in the office writing an ad project.
This weekend I plan to put those new base layer shirts to the test on the river, hunting the by-now-elusive BWO hatch. Naturally, you’ll be the second to know how it goes.
Until then, let us know how it went. See you around the Xmas tree, Tom Chandler.
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