by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 17, 2020
Chris Dorsey spent the day with the Sporting Classics team during the Casting Call book signing and offered up a few inside details about the project. If the past year has left you aching for travel, pining for a cool trout stream or daydreaming of life on the water,...
by Michael Altizer | Nov 30, 2020
He had worn that old hat from Alaska to Florida. But he could hardly ever bring himself to wear it back to its original home in New Mexico. Christmas morning. The high country was covered with a foot of new-fallen snow that had come as an unexpected gift during the...
by Henry David Thoreau | Nov 24, 2020
A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye, looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. “Home is the sailor, home from the sea.” Whether the voice hails from the salty ocean, a great lake, trickling...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 10, 2020
Freddie Leibhart’s mom introduced him to fishing when he was young. Now, the Columbus man is doing the same for his children. Better yet, he now can take them fishing in the new boat he won as the grand prize in the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s...
by Chris Dorsey | Nov 7, 2020
Wherever the currents of time find Pallot, you can bet the fish will be biting and he’ll make room in the boat for you—whether in person or vicariously. What could be cooler than that? For 15 seasons a lanky poet with the central casting name of Flip Pallot poled a...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 30, 2020
Wild River Press and Dorsey Pictures are releasing the first book and film production to celebrate the world of fly fishing like never before. From one of the world’s most widely traveled fly fishermen and the largest producer of outdoor television in history comes...
by Tom Davis | Oct 20, 2020
A woman of breathtaking beauty was absolutely the last thing he expected to see in such a desolate place. I’d been on a Jim Harrison binge in the wake of his death—easy to do given his prodigious output. In particular, I’d been enjoying the stuff set in Michigan’s...
by Michael Altizer | Oct 19, 2020
He hasn’t yet turned five years old, but already he loves going fishing with the big guys and his new fly rod. Note: This article originally appeared in the September/October 2014 issue of Sporting Classics. His name is Gabriel Matthew Altizer, and he has not...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 6, 2020
Esteemed Sporting Classics Editor-At-Large and author, Jim Casada, recently won the Excellence in Craft award for his Sporting Classics Daily piece, “Sweet Soul of the Smokies.” The Southeastern Outdoor Press Association (SEOPA) announced the winners of...
by Mike Gaddis | Oct 5, 2020
He confided the happy little story that closed the 50 years between us as gently as nightfall closes day, that filled my eyes and made me smile. I’ve an idea it might foster a similar reminiscence for you. Little, whimsical outdoor gladdenings come along now and then...
