Category Archives: Books

Small Streams in Michigan THE FIRST FLY ROD I ever owned was eight feet of carpet beater made by a company whose cork grips were supplied by my father. My father worked for a  Portuguese cork company whose owners swam at Estoril and … more →

I CLIMBED THE DEODAR WHENEVER I COULD THAT YEAR, but in my final summer I spent more evenings on the lawn beneath it, learning to cast a fly under Robert’s exacting tutelage. That term, he had arrived with a goshawk – a proud … more →

IF I REALLY WANT to get rid of someone, I bring up fly fishing in conversation. Excepting golf, a conversation about fly fishing can, to the uninitiated, work way better at encouraging profound rapid eye movement than Lunesta with a beer back. I … more →

TROUT ANGLERS owe Al Caucci a debt of gratitude. Just two examples of what he’s done for us: the Comparadun dry fly and the Hatches books (all created with the late Bob Nastasi). These contributions alone assure that Caucci’s and Nastasi’s … more →

I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it “ham and eggs tying”—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit … more →