He just wasn’t going to take it anymore: the snow and cold and bass that seldom grow much bigger than your bait. No. The time had come to pull out all the stops in one last-ditch, hell-bent-for-whatever quest for a trophy bass… a gut-wrenching, arm-busting, heart-pounding wallhanger of a fish.
This fisherman’s fairytale is far from folklore… A true story of giants, fairies, heroism and romance stay alive in an old man’s memories. Once upon a time long ago and far, far away, there was a boy. “Wait,” someone will shout. “That sounds like an...
From the time I was first able to tag along without completely impeding his fly fishing, Daddy let me accompany him on short after-work outings to nearby trout streams in my native Great Smokies. My father was a dedicated fly fisherman and one of those wise mentors...
Despite the hazardous heat, staff and partners worked together to safely transfer 348,000 spring Chinook and release another 7.15 million juvenile upriver bright fall Chinook salmon so they could make their way out to the Pacific Ocean before river temperature hit the...
This weekend on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, Dorsey and family wrestle with river monsters from the southern hemisphere. Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that this Saturday’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – the most watched outdoor TV...
The white bass (sand bass) gets my nod as one of the most popular species to be targeted by the largest number of anglers. Here’s why. If a survey was given to fishermen across the south and southeastern states and the question posed, “What do you consider to be...
You never get over the sight of your first bluegill or redbreast. Maybe that’s why we always return to the ponds and waters of our youth. It was shaping up to be a day for the Daddy Diary. I was sitting, legs swinging carefree, on the well-worn dock of the...
In Alaskan backcountry on the Alagnak River, the myth of wilderness in the form of a fierce, wild, strong King Salmon is just a cast away. Alaska. The Alagnak River. July. As from my boat I watched eagles, ospreys and bears hunt along the river, I realized that man...
For the angler with perpetual wanderlust, nothing says you love them more than these gift selections designed with the traveling fisherman in mind. The opening line in Norman Maclean’s classic, A River Runs Through It, is perhaps the most memorable distillation of the...
