Category Archives: Books
Film Brought Fame to the Blackfoot
Made famous by Robert Redford’s film adaptation of Norman Maclean’s novella A River Runs Through It, the Blackfoot River was in the end both hurt and helped by all of the attention. Bringing tourists and a population boom to Montana, and … more
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Ernest Schwiebert: “On Ethics and Philosophy Astream”
We celebrate the release of the revised edition of Ernest Schwiebert’s classic Matching the Hatch with an excerpt of “On Ethics and Philosophy Astream.” Matching the Hatch was originally published in 1955 and was recognized as a ground-breaking look at … more
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“Seasons on the Flats”
Seasons on the Flats, a new book by Bill Horn due out on August 1, profiles an angler’s year in the Florida Keys. An interview with the author by Bonefish on the Brain reveals the author’s motivation for writing the … more
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Jim Harrison: “Older Fishing”
We are lucky to live in what may be the last decades of fly fishing literature in its purest form. There are a handful of writers still placing fingers on keyboards and turning out magic, in part because they’ve long … more
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“There’s a Cougar Out There”
Twain-like tales are a part of every fly fishing writer’s repertoire, often drawn from real-life fears and fantasies. Keith Stamm’s “There’s a Cougar Out There” captures the tension that venturing forth with bike and fly rod in mountain lion country … more
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Book Review: “Jubilee Hitchhiker,” a Biography of Richard Brautigan
John Leland reviews the new giant biography of Richard Brautigan by William Hjortsberg. “Begun in 1991, it consumed nearly as many years as Brautigan’s literary career and has yielded by rough estimate about twice as many words. Brautigan wrote stories as … more
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“Hunter Thompson With a Fly Rod Instead of Drugs”
Louis Cahill, one of the preeminent photographers in the fly fishing world, recently began showing off his prose when he and partner Kent Klewein launched their blog Gink & Gasoline. Cahill shares his gratitude—as a fisherman and writer—toward Gierach in … more
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Thomas McGuane on Small Streams
One of the remarkable things about Thomas McGuane’s fishing writing is that you can return to something of his years after you first read it, read it again, and marvel all over again at the clarity of thought it contains. … more
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Just How Are Fly Fishing and the Stock Market Similar?
Fly fishing and the stock market: not exactly a comparison that gets thrown around very often. But in his book set to be released on August 7, Dr. Stephen Morris does just that. An orthodontist by day and fly fishing … more
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Upcoming Fly Fishing Books
May the Rivers Never Sleep, by father and son team Bill and John McMillian, will be released July 15, 2012. “The essence of May the Rivers Never Sleep is the physical and biological tapestry of river time month by month, … more
