Tippets: Good News on River Recovery, Untangling Leader Knots, Writing of Nick Lyons

October 21, 2014 By: Erin Block

  • Recent research released from Oregon State University shows that rivers are able to recover after the removal of a dam at a faster rate than previously thought. Read more via KTVZ.
  • There’s always the question of whether to untangle knots in your line and leader or to just re-rig. Phil Monahan tackles both in a recent post on untangling leader knots via Orvis.
  • In a recent post on Sporting Classics, Jim Casada examines the genius of Nick Lyons’s writing, and features quotes from the author’s work. “What we call recreation gives us a fuller not different life, bringing us parts of ourselves too often neglected or forgotten.”