by John Ross | Sep 15, 2024
Trout the hard–and fun–way in fishing’s late season.
by Duncan Grant | Sep 6, 2024
Sit in it and my knees begin to hurt, my back starts aching, my shoes get soaked. Then, this green time machine pulls me into the past, and slowly the pains fade.
by Phillip D. Yearout | Aug 28, 2024
How the mink had come to be there the boy did not know. Those whom he asked about it—casually, trying not to appear too inquisitive—laughed and told him condescendingly, There’s no mink in this country! Prob’ly just an old muskrat. They all had their reasons—Too far...
by G.E.M. Skues | Aug 22, 2024
An enchantingly beautiful chalk stream, perfect cast after perfect cast, big trout rising to the fly each time it alights on the water… For Theodore Castwell, it seemed that St. Peter had indeed given him very special consideration. Mr. Theodore Castwell, having...
by Mike Gaddis | Aug 19, 2024
Had a man once who said, “The older the boy, the younger the man.” Strikes me he was right. No matter how old you are, you got to hang on to him—the boy—never let him go. Hardly back from Chile and Patagonia, languishing in a chair before the fire—even as the...
by Paul Smith | Jul 31, 2024
Newfoundland and Labrador’s crystal-clear waters teem with brook trout, a telling testament to this unspoiled land.
by Michael M. DeWitt, Jr. | Jul 18, 2024
It was an act of violence rougher than anything Hemingway ever wrote about – the blood-curdling screams made me sick to my stomach. But about that time I hooked a monster bluegill… A Southern Tall Tale Excuse me, gents. Jimmy Shakes here, nice to meet ya. I couldn’t...
by Beau Beasley | Jul 3, 2024
The old war wound nagged at him as he waded the stream.
by Art Isberg | Jun 26, 2024
The secluded waterway became the perfect setting for a lifetime of treasured memories.
by Mike Gaddis | Jun 22, 2024
It was the day of his birth, the genesis of his sixty-third year, and it had been a good one. It could have been celebrated anywhere in the world, as so many times before it had. But not today. Not this time. Today, it had been spent on the small streams near home,...