Living Off The Grid

I read an article in the Wall Street Journal last week about these guys. They’re called Primal Fly and they’re all about “brownlining” or, in laymens terms, urban fly fishing.

While PrimalFly is catching and releasing for sport, I have to wonder about the edibility of these fish. If they’re just passing through an urban portion of a river or stream, they might actually be about as pure as their mountain brothers.

Nevermind the graffiti, half-sunken shopping carts, floating plastic bottles and the occasional crazy bum jumping out at you – catching large, dinner-table-sized fish in the middle of the city is apparently something worth trying.

For those of you brave enough to eat carp, there’s plenty of monsters lurking around in urban areas. Take a look at this ugyly thing out of the Platte River in downtown Denver.

For the Primal Fly crew, self-proclaimed “Hooligans of Brownlining”, it’s just another day of reeling in big slobs like this.