I won’t lie to the Undergrounders (well, not right now); it’s Crazy Time here at Trout Underground/Man Cave World Headquarters.

Still, as everyone knows, when the going gets tough, the tough get going, eventually killing themselves because they didn’t have the common sense to stop and have a beer like everybody else on the planet.

At least that’s how I think the saying goes.

Brought to us courtesy Pop Artist Nikolas Allen (click pic to see more)

I mean, look at the Germans. They’re an industrious, hard-working people, but every September (and early October), they don traditional garb and dive headfirst into the giant, frosty brewski that is Oktoberfest.

With the rise of extreme fly fishing – and the unfortunate lionization of cheap, swillish beer that so many seem to think adds character to a trip (the Underground’s Department of Alcohol vehemently disagrees) – we thought it appropriate to take a moment and applaud our Germanic cousins, who most certainly do not lionize watery beer:

The Big Picture photoblog pays homage to Germany’s Oktoberfest, and while the photographs of beer halls, lederhosen (I *need* lederhosen), and drunken beer hounds certainly added immensely to our understanding of the world, we’d also suggest our y-chromosone readers pay a visit to a site honoring those who keep the beer flowing to the drunken crowds at the following site:

The Sexy Girls of Oktoberfest Site (ten pages, that’s all we’re saying here).

Still, it’s not yet beer time at TU – there’s still hope of a quick afternoon fly fishing trip to a nearby, probably largely unfishable stream.

When it’s Crazy Time, you do what you can, especially if you’re going to be out of the country for a significant chunk of your area’s own little Oktoberfest (and we mean caddis here, not beer).

More soon for the Undergrounders.