by Robert F. Jones | Feb 10, 2026
What trout fisherman, plunged into despair by hyper-selective fish that refuse all his imitations, hasn’t wished for a “magic” fly? In this cautionary tale from the anthology Seasons of the Angler (1988), the author reminds us to be careful what we wish for . . .
by Duncan Dobie | Jan 28, 2026
Duncan Dobie tells of Arthur Woody, a visionary character for forest and wildlife restoration extraordinaire in the early 20th century mountain ranges of Northern GA. The sudden spring thunderstorm stopped almost as quickly as it had started. It blew...
by Jerry Dennis | Jan 25, 2026
Even on the best damned walleye lake in America, sometimes you have to lower your standards a bit and catch what you can. The guy I’ll call X-Factor kept calling and leaving messages on my phone. Somebody told him that I planned to fish Lake Erie in September, and he...
by Jack Gagnon | Jan 19, 2026
There was urgency in his voice. My grandfather and Ed Brower went below deck. The Dolphin’s bilge pump had stopped working. Water was coming in. It’s a bright Saturday afternoon in Fairfield, Connecticut, just after 5:00; mid-April 1960. Daffodils bloom along the...
by Art Isberg | Jan 15, 2026
The secluded waterway became the perfect setting for a lifetime of treasured memories.
by Ehor Boyanowsky | Dec 23, 2025
I parked in the cul-de-sac where the suburban world ended. Unhitching my rod from the roof of my pickup, I crossed the bridge over the thundering creek and walked past the pump housing that the cougar liked to lie upon in the midwinter sun. Once again, I had passed...
by Michael Altizer | Dec 22, 2025
SNOW AND RAIN tracked nearly horizontal, and tiny shards of ice bit into our faces when we turned into the wind as we stood overlooking the falls, a hundred feet below us on this cold Christmas Eve. “This is a good thing,” my brother declared. And so it was. Christmas...
by Denver Bryan | Dec 8, 2025
There are many places to chase tarpon—Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and Ascension Bay, the Caribbean, Belize and various jungle rivers up and down Central America, the lower Gulf and Atlantic coasts, even some rivers in Africa. All encounters with these silver-plated...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 24, 2025
It is a pursuit for a beast from another era as Chris Dorsey and Steve Lamboy look to hook giant white sturgeon on Idaho’s Snake River in this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey. The series airs on prime-time on Thursday at 10pm ET, with...
by Ben Moise | Oct 16, 2025
In part two of “In Pursuit of Papa,” the author heads outside the U.S. for clues about the famed sporting scribe.
