The Governor’s Trout
Sean and Patrick had chanced upon the secret to catching the Governor’s huge Loch Levens trout. And this very night would be the perfect time to pull off their daring exploit. Right under the Governor’s very nose.
Dry-Cow Fishing As A Fine Art
The 1907 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) achieved fame as a poet and novelist. He is best remembered for poems such as “Gunga Din” and “Fuzzy Wuzzy,” books such as Kim, Captain Courageous and The Jungle Book, and for coining the...
Karawalla Dreaming
Who needs sleep when 200-pound tarpon are rocking and rolling in your jungle river.
Of Men, Mentors and Muskellunge
Two men wandered into the Ontario Central Airways (OCA) office one afternoon while I was manning the front desk. How strange it was that I could instantly tell that they were used to being in charge. They wore short brown leather jackets and the standard issue khaki...
Meeting on the Big Hole
Good friends come together for a freshwater slam in Montana.
The Haunting
The haunting of late fall didn’t come from ghoulish goblins, horror houses or a second-rate slasher flick. This haunting wasn’t even a part of Halloween, but was instead a few weeks after, in mid-November. The day’s awakening brought the ghastly remains of Lake...
Sporting Classics TV Season 6 Episode 16 Trailer
This week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey is an adventure in the Gulf Stream as Chris Dorsey and friends are after tight lines on saltwater. The fly fishing adventure starts in Cape Cod in pursuit of striped bass, then heads south to Puerto Rico...
Fish of a Thousand Casts
They’re not typically given the title, but Atlantic salmon in low water certainly qualify as “the fish of a thousand casts.”
Fall Float on the Wild Watauga
Trout the hard–and fun–way in fishing’s late season.
The Boat
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.