Book Excerpt: "Calling After Water: Dispatches from a Fishing Life"

READING THE FLATS Ian Davis: What do you do when you climb up on the poling platform? Bruce Chard: Know that 95 percent...

Rivers Always Reach the Sea is a wide-ranging collection of thirty-one essays and profiles that chart Monte Burke’s...

“The first rule of this river is that you don’t talk about this river. At least by name.” That’s how the text...

Introduction  Some striper anglers and captains told me writing this book would be folly because you can’t...

Skunked Late one summer night in Michigan—immediately after I let Sunny out for his evening constitutional—the...

Be brave and walk through the country of your own wild heart. Be gentle and know you know nothing. Be still. Listen...

Do you believe in unicorns? I know my young daughters used to. I’m still on the fence with the idea, but there is a...

The Dog, the Boy and the Trout The first fly I ever tied consisted of a carp hook, my mom’s sewing thread, hair from...