Category Archives: Books
Maclean’s Fishing Holes
The Big Blackfoot River has captured many imaginations, in part because of the work of Norman Maclean and his novella A River Runs Through It. A recent piece by Kim Briggeman of The Missoulian features a conversation with founder and … more
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Why They Fly Fish
With responses from folks like Carl Hiaasen and Henry Winkler, and April Vokey and John Gierach, Chris Santella’s new book Why I Fly Fish highlights passionate anglers from all walks of life and professions. In a recent article on Forbes, Santella shares … more
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Stonefly Press to Collaborate with The Orvis Company
With their debut book set to launch in April, publisher Stonefly Press has announced collaboration with The Orvis Company on Fly Fishing for Carp, by author Kirk Deeter. Read more in the press release below.
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Famous Pen Names of Angling Authors
From Piscator to Sparse Grey Hackle, angling literature has a history of pen names. Recently Smithsonian magazine featured an article highlighting a list of pseudonyms fishing writers have used, including those of female anglers Mrs. W.D. Tomlin, Miss Cornelia Crosby, and … more
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Making Do with Perfection
Here we are in the peak of sight-casting season in New Zealand–an appropriate time to reveal another excellent piece of writing by Derek Grzelewski, a writer, photographer and adventurer whose The Trout Dairies one of the better pure fishing books … more
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Harrison: The Art of Fiction
For five days in the middle of October 1986, Jim Fergus spoke with noted author and fly fisher Jim Harrison. Despite the threatening sign in the driveway of his Michigan farm, Fergus found Harrison to be “intensely voluble and cheerful”—and … more
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Video Hatch: “Fly Sketch”
A look behind the art of Joe Van Faasen in the book Classic Michigan Flies, written by Jon Osborn.
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Poetry by Robert DeMott: “The Fires Last Summer”
Robert DeMott is kind enough to let us share his most recent poem, which arrived in the form of a Christmas card yesterday. It draws from the imagery of the western U.S. tinderbox of this last summer and helps bring … more
“A Steelheader’s Way” Free on Amazon
Steelhead legend Lani Waller’s book A Steelheaders Way is described as a blend of how-to and why-to, as a marriage of prose and advice from a life among great waters, fish, and anglers. And December 18th-19th it is free for … more
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Dunkings and Deservings
Before Robert DeMott fell ass over teakettle into the Madison river some time ago, he might have had pretensions of belonging to that fraternity of cover-shot-qualified anglers who fill the pages of fly fishing media. But instead, as he describes … more
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