An Angler's Lament

I have friends planning a two-week fly fishing trip to Alaska. This is a dream destination, of course. A sort of...

It’s still dark as I dress, the sun reticent to rise on such a cold, gray morning. Trudging down the stairs and into...

John Gierach once wrote that you forget your troubles while on a trout stream because you “begin to see where your...

On the first of January winter fly fishing opens in Minnesota. I broke out the waders and retrieved fly rods, carefully...

The other day I sat on my porch cleaning fly line. There is not enough time to do these things. If the day is sunny...

As a young man, I read Hemingway and Steinbeck, Harrison, and McGuane. Along the way, the fly-fishing raconteur...

One of the pleasures of fishing with a fly is the knowledge that those of us who spend our time wading through streams...

For some reason people think I catch fish. A fly rod is always in my pickup. I wear fisherman’s polarized glasses...