“The late English poet Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998) was an avid conservationist and enthusiastic fly fisher. Moreover, he came to love fly fishing for salmon and steelhead in British Columbia after befriending Ehor Boyanowsky, a criminal psychologist and professor…
Recently retired Carlton College president Rob Oden writes about rainbow hatcheries, the liberal arts, and tenuous connections to the wild. “When Spanish anglers happen to catch a stocked rainbow trout, they know what to call them. Mimicking the most recognizable…
In Forbes magazine, Monte Burke assembles a panel of expert and extracts seven suggestions for immediately improving your spring fishing, among them: fish dries in slower water in spring, look for seams where clear and dirty water meet during run-off,…
“Fishing, at such times, is an almost wholly symbolic activity, and to see the pluck and twitch of your line in the current is to know a very particular anticipation. That somehow, in the connection with the invisible forms below,…
Acclaimed non-fiction writer Mark Kurlansky weigh in on “Avatar,” Moby Dick, Jimi Hendrix, and fly fishing for rainbows on the Big Wood in an interview by PopMatters. His newest book, Eastern Start, on Dominican baseball, will be released on April…
Image via WikipediaIt looked like a fine stream. I put my hand in the water; it was cold and felt good. – Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America In Paste Magazine, Josh Jackson offers an appreciation for Richard Brautigan’s most…
John Corrigan reviews guide Eric Stroup’s new Common Sense Fly Fishing, 7 Simple Lessons to Catch More Trout (Headwater Books, January 2010, 140 pages) and says tips like the one Stroup offers about mending within a “corridor” take a lot…
Described by the publisher as a “celebration of fly fishing, alternately lyrical and meditative, mystical and sensuous, … an exploration of the intersection between past and present, spirit and body, water and land, trout and people, ghosts and dreams,” Maximilian…
Samuel Snyder, who is currently the John Daniels Fellow at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia, reviews Anders Halverson’s new book An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Over Ran the World. It’s “hardly a criticism…
Cover of The River WhyIt’s been a couple of years now since a film version of David James Duncan’s novel The River Why was announced to the press, and still no movie (see “William Hurt to Star in “The River…
