Winter Fishing – Candid Cameron
Winter fishing — is a terrible idea. Stay home by the fire. While ice and freezing temperatures have a firm grip on much of America, Mike has decided it’s time to go fishing. He’s not ice fishing and drilling a hole into the ice to then sit and stare into that dark...
Lessons From The Wilderness
And now, he realized, he also knew something about these woods and waters his father had hunted and fished — something deeply personal. The boy was the youngest and smallest of the cousins, so at the family's gatherings, his cousins would reluctantly let him join the...
Wayne McLoughlin – Eternally Fleeting Dreams
My life outdoors began as an escape, a way to get away from people, yet now I'm involved in the outdoors because of people — the people I've met there. Over the years, the most common question I've been asked about my painting is "How did your art evolve into such...
The Cremation of Sam McGee
An unlikely life. He was an English banker who ran off to America at an early age. He nearly starved in Mexico, bunked in a California bordello. He passed himself as a cowboy, farmer, lumberjack, Yukondog-musher and gold miner. He drove an ambulance in the First War...
New Zealand – A Sporting Country is Born
There was once a land with no people, no mammals, just forested mountains and clear rushing rivers since the rocks were laid down. No deer or antelope, no wolf or bear had ever left a footprint there. That place lay brooding for millions of years, a thing unto itself....
Al Agnew – A Love Indefatigable
"Many people have the basic ability to draw what they see. All children love to draw. It's just that most lose interest in it for whatever reason. But I never did. I fell in love with art and the outdoors when I started fishing the stream by my house as a kid, and...
Iceland Brown Trout – A Place Out Of Time
The situation in Iceleand reminded me of an existentialist stage play, like Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Being lost in the fog, with its sensory and sound-deadening effects...was akin to having wandered into the off-stage of life. Iceland it...
A Killing in Saskatchewan
It was a scene of primal, primitive savagery; it seemed like something out of a corrupted Moby Dick, with the inept, half-crazed Wolf in the role of Queequeg, the aboriginal harpooner who prided himself on his lethal professionalism. Below Elizabeth Falls, where it...
Salmon Fishing in the Aleutians
If Hell was cold, wet and windy, it would probably look a great deal like Volcano Bay in Alaska's Aleutians. But in one of those lovely little touches of irony at which God is so devilishly good, if Heaven was made just for fishermen with a sense of adventure, the...
Thoughts on Fly Fishing – Subimago Blues
57 years ago, on January 14th, 1965, Bob Dylan recorded his hit single "Subterranean Homesick Blues" Here are some thoughts on fly fishing set to this classic tune. Down in the basement, Thinnin' out the head cement, Thumbin' through a catalog, Last...