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#1
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Nuclear Disaster...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - February 10, 2026, 10:18:36 AMMarking the 40th anniversary of the unprecedented tragedy, Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown tells the powerful story of the world's worst nuclear disaster in four gripping episodes. Co-produced by CNN Original Series, National Geographic EMEA and Windfall Films, the series will premiere with two episodes on Sunday, March 1 at 9pm ET/PT on CNN. The final two episodes will air the following Sunday, March 8 at 9pm ET/PT. Episodes will be available to stream on demand the next day for subscribers of CNN's streaming offering.
Spanning the scope of the catastrophic collapse of the reactor, the Soviets' calculated cover-up, and the present-day fallout now intersecting with the war in Ukraine, Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown reveals a tragedy still reverberating across history. Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, the series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
"This series brings new depth to a story many believe they know, driven by firsthand accounts from those who lived through it and remarkable material drawn from newly uncovered archives," said Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent, CNN Originals, and creative development for CNN Worldwide. "It exemplifies CNN Original Series' ability to revisit defining global events with a fresh perspective for today's audiences."
https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2026/02/06/disaster-the-chernobyl-meltdown-coming-soon-from-cnn-original-series-national-geographic-international-and-windfall-films/
#2
The Gravel Bar / Re: Superbowl Halftime / Bad B...
Last post by troutboy_II - February 10, 2026, 09:32:29 AMBravo Michael Garrett! Well said! 
TB
TB
#3
Local Trip Reports / Re: Patagonia Jan 24 - Feb 3
Last post by trout-r-us - February 09, 2026, 21:27:29 PMFrom what I've been told, that bonefishing in Oahu is quite the challenge. But nice size fish when you do hook up.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
#4
The Gravel Bar / Re: Superbowl Halftime / Bad B...
Last post by trout-r-us - February 09, 2026, 21:04:29 PMI don't usually pay much attention to half time shows, but watched this one just for the D.E.I. of it. 😁
#5
The Gravel Bar / Re: Superbowl Halftime / Bad B...
Last post by Onslow - February 09, 2026, 18:16:01 PMBad Bunny isn't the style of many, but I really admire his overarching message, and the effort and details put forth for the show.
It is not cool to treat the indigenous populations on the Western Hemisphere like shit. Espanol is a white European language. WTF.
It is not cool to treat the indigenous populations on the Western Hemisphere like shit. Espanol is a white European language. WTF.
#6
Local Trip Reports / Re: Patagonia Jan 24 - Feb 3
Last post by Big J - February 09, 2026, 15:11:13 PMI'd love to fish some of the alpine lakes and streams for brook trout in Patagonia.
Awesome trip Bossman
Awesome trip Bossman
#7
The Gravel Bar / Superbowl Halftime / Bad Bunny...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - February 09, 2026, 11:30:13 AMWhile I had heard of Bad Bunny, I had never heard any of his music. Younger people are his fans, I enjoyed the energy of the show and the representation of Puerto Rico's history.
Here is Michael Garrett - NC Senate's post about the show!
I watched Bad Bunny deliver the most American halftime show I have ever seen. Then I came home and watched it again. And I am not okay. In the best possible way.
He sang every single word in Spanish. Every. Single. Word. He danced through sugarcane fields built on a football field in California while the President of the United States sat somewhere calling it "disgusting." Lady Gaga came out and did the salsa. Ricky Martin lit up the night. A couple got married on the field. He handed his Grammy, the one he won eight days ago for Album of the Year, to a little boy who looked up at him the way every child looks up when they dare to believe the world has a place for them.
And then this man, this son of a truck driver and a schoolteacher from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, stood on the biggest stage on the planet and said "God bless America."
And then he started naming them.
Chile. Argentina. Uruguay. Paraguay. Bolivia. Peru. Ecuador. Brazil. Colombia. Venezuela. Panama. Costa Rica. Nicaragua. Honduras. El Salvador. Guatemala. Mexico. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Jamaica. The United States. Canada. And then, his voice breaking with everything he carries, "Mi patria, Puerto Rico. Seguimos aquí." My homeland, Puerto Rico. We are still here.
The flags came. Every single one of them. Carried across that field by dancers and musicians while the jumbotron lit up with the only words that mattered: "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE."
I teared up. I'm not ashamed to say it. I sat on my couch and I wept because THAT is the America I believe in. That is the American story, not the sanitized, gated, English-only version that small and frightened people try to sell us. The REAL one. The messy, beautiful, multilingual, multicolored, courageous one. The one that has always been built by hands that speak every language and pray in every tongue and come from every corner of this hemisphere.
That is the America I want Jack and Charlotte to know. That when the moment came, when the whole world was watching, a Puerto Rican kid who grew up to become the most-streamed artist on Earth stood in front of 100 million people, sang in his mother's language, blessed every nation in the Americas, and spiked a football that read "Together, we are America" into the ground. Not with anger. With joy. With love so big it made hate look exactly as small as it is.
And what did the President do? He called it "absolutely terrible." He said "nobody understands a word this guy is saying." He called it "a slap in the face to our Country." The leader of the free world watched a celebration of love, culture, and everything this hemisphere has given to the world, and all he could see was something foreign. Something threatening. Something disgusting.
Let that sink into your bones.
The man who is supposed to represent all of us looked at the flags of our neighbors, heard the language of 500 million Americans across this hemisphere, and felt attacked. That's not strength. That's not patriotism. That is poverty of the soul.
And then there was the Turning Point show. Kid Rock in a college arena in North Dakota. Three million viewers watching a man who once wrote a song about liking underage girls perform as the "family-friendly" alternative to a Puerto Rican artist celebrating love. They called it the "All-American Halftime Show", as if America has a velvet rope. As if this country belongs to some of us and not all of us. As if you need to sing in English to count.
Here's what I want to say to everyone who posted about that show tonight, who shared it proudly, who turned away from Bad Bunny's celebration because it was in Spanish and the flags weren't only red, white, and blue:
Your children will see those posts. Your grandchildren will find them. The internet doesn't forget. And one day, when the history of this moment is written, when our kids and their kids look back at 2026 the way we look back at the people who stood on the wrong side of every bridge and every march and every moment that mattered, they will know exactly where you stood. They will see who chose Kid Rock over a hemisphere of flags. They will see who called love "disgusting." And they will carry that knowledge the way all of us carry the knowledge of what our ancestors did when they were tested.
I don't say that with anger. I say it with sadness. Because hate is an inheritance nobody asks for, and yet it gets passed down just the same.
Bad Bunny didn't say "ICE out" tonight. He didn't need to. He just showed the whole world what America looks like when we are not afraid of each other. When culture is shared, not policed. When language is music, not a threat. When a flag from every nation in this hemisphere can walk across a football field together and the only words you need are the ones he gave us:
The only thing more powerful than hate is love.
Over 100 million people saw that tonight.
And no Truth Social post can take it away.
Here is Michael Garrett - NC Senate's post about the show!
I watched Bad Bunny deliver the most American halftime show I have ever seen. Then I came home and watched it again. And I am not okay. In the best possible way.
He sang every single word in Spanish. Every. Single. Word. He danced through sugarcane fields built on a football field in California while the President of the United States sat somewhere calling it "disgusting." Lady Gaga came out and did the salsa. Ricky Martin lit up the night. A couple got married on the field. He handed his Grammy, the one he won eight days ago for Album of the Year, to a little boy who looked up at him the way every child looks up when they dare to believe the world has a place for them.
And then this man, this son of a truck driver and a schoolteacher from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, stood on the biggest stage on the planet and said "God bless America."
And then he started naming them.
Chile. Argentina. Uruguay. Paraguay. Bolivia. Peru. Ecuador. Brazil. Colombia. Venezuela. Panama. Costa Rica. Nicaragua. Honduras. El Salvador. Guatemala. Mexico. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Jamaica. The United States. Canada. And then, his voice breaking with everything he carries, "Mi patria, Puerto Rico. Seguimos aquí." My homeland, Puerto Rico. We are still here.
The flags came. Every single one of them. Carried across that field by dancers and musicians while the jumbotron lit up with the only words that mattered: "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE."
I teared up. I'm not ashamed to say it. I sat on my couch and I wept because THAT is the America I believe in. That is the American story, not the sanitized, gated, English-only version that small and frightened people try to sell us. The REAL one. The messy, beautiful, multilingual, multicolored, courageous one. The one that has always been built by hands that speak every language and pray in every tongue and come from every corner of this hemisphere.
That is the America I want Jack and Charlotte to know. That when the moment came, when the whole world was watching, a Puerto Rican kid who grew up to become the most-streamed artist on Earth stood in front of 100 million people, sang in his mother's language, blessed every nation in the Americas, and spiked a football that read "Together, we are America" into the ground. Not with anger. With joy. With love so big it made hate look exactly as small as it is.
And what did the President do? He called it "absolutely terrible." He said "nobody understands a word this guy is saying." He called it "a slap in the face to our Country." The leader of the free world watched a celebration of love, culture, and everything this hemisphere has given to the world, and all he could see was something foreign. Something threatening. Something disgusting.
Let that sink into your bones.
The man who is supposed to represent all of us looked at the flags of our neighbors, heard the language of 500 million Americans across this hemisphere, and felt attacked. That's not strength. That's not patriotism. That is poverty of the soul.
And then there was the Turning Point show. Kid Rock in a college arena in North Dakota. Three million viewers watching a man who once wrote a song about liking underage girls perform as the "family-friendly" alternative to a Puerto Rican artist celebrating love. They called it the "All-American Halftime Show", as if America has a velvet rope. As if this country belongs to some of us and not all of us. As if you need to sing in English to count.
Here's what I want to say to everyone who posted about that show tonight, who shared it proudly, who turned away from Bad Bunny's celebration because it was in Spanish and the flags weren't only red, white, and blue:
Your children will see those posts. Your grandchildren will find them. The internet doesn't forget. And one day, when the history of this moment is written, when our kids and their kids look back at 2026 the way we look back at the people who stood on the wrong side of every bridge and every march and every moment that mattered, they will know exactly where you stood. They will see who chose Kid Rock over a hemisphere of flags. They will see who called love "disgusting." And they will carry that knowledge the way all of us carry the knowledge of what our ancestors did when they were tested.
I don't say that with anger. I say it with sadness. Because hate is an inheritance nobody asks for, and yet it gets passed down just the same.
Bad Bunny didn't say "ICE out" tonight. He didn't need to. He just showed the whole world what America looks like when we are not afraid of each other. When culture is shared, not policed. When language is music, not a threat. When a flag from every nation in this hemisphere can walk across a football field together and the only words you need are the ones he gave us:
The only thing more powerful than hate is love.
Over 100 million people saw that tonight.
And no Truth Social post can take it away.
#8
Local Trip Reports / Re: Patagonia Jan 24 - Feb 3
Last post by Woolly Bugger - February 09, 2026, 10:19:55 AMQuote from: trout-r-us on February 09, 2026, 07:59:54 AMI am anxiously looking forward to the next of your great adventures.
Honduras in May is on deck, looking at Ohau for bonefish too....
#9
Local Trip Reports / Re: Patagonia Jan 24 - Feb 3
Last post by trout-r-us - February 09, 2026, 07:59:54 AMThanks for sharing.
I am anxiously looking forward to the next of your great adventures.
I am anxiously looking forward to the next of your great adventures.
#10
Local Trip Reports / Re: Patagonia Jan 24 - Feb 3
Last post by Woolly Bugger - February 08, 2026, 17:15:19 PMQuote from: driver on February 08, 2026, 15:59:49 PMThe food looks amazing.
Food and hospitality 10
Quote from: driver on February 08, 2026, 15:59:49 PMOn a scale of one to ten how would you rate the fishing?
I'm having a hard time with this; there was a lot of potential but condiditions weren't the best (Heat Wave, Low Water, Lots of algea and an unheard of rain day), I was 1:1 with the guide and it was relentless. Wind was bitchy, but there were times and big fish opportunities. 7
Quote from: driver on February 08, 2026, 15:59:49 PMWould you do it again?
Yes 8! Maybe the spring time trip would be better. We had little to no hatches.
Guide 10