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Reading Between the Lines

About 15 years ago, my friend Eric Rickstad and I made...

Leave No Fly Behind

Anyone familiar with The Hunger Games trilogy will recall a...

Learning from Tragedy: On-the-Water Safety in Early Spring

Editor’s Note: This is the nineteenth article in our...

Fly-Fishing Through Disasters

The cicada hatch of 2024 should have been a sign. Both the...

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A Special Kind Of Crazy

“Dammit!” My brother bellowed, throwing his wading boots into the brush and plunking down in a chair by the...

“Gone Fishin’,” by William G. Tapply

A secret, shared stream represents four decades of memories. We usually rumble across the iron bridge, turn off the...

What Are You Really Casting For?

I blinked and suddenly found myself staring 60 in the face. Honestly, I’m not sure how it happened. Nevertheless...

Knocking the Rust Off

Winters in the South Carolina mountains tend to give us just a taste of the weather our northern neighbors get...

How I Found Religion

In the spring of 1951, I was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith. During the ceremony, the priest asked if I would...

The Trout Stream That No One Else Wanted

With a sparsely attended Catholic church at one end and a Taco Bell at the other, Benmont Avenue is representative of...

Are Beavers Good or Bad for Trout Streams?

In his essay “Thinking like a Mountain” Aldo Leopold, hailed as the “father of wildlife management,” describes...

My Anadromous Addiction

Since the dawn of humankind, the sea has been a source of fascination and inspiration. The shadowy blue depths call to...