Nick Lyons: Giant of Modern Sporting Letters 

Nick Lyons: Giant of Modern Sporting Letters 

Anyone who reads Nick Lyons’ Fire in the Straw will come away enriched, enchanted by a style that is at once pithy and persuasive, and enlightened. I would contend, with plenty of evidence to support my views, that over the course of the last half century there...
A Lifetime of Fly-Fishing Tales

A Lifetime of Fly-Fishing Tales

In The Last Best Day, Michael Altizer shares moments and meditations from a lifetime of fly fishing on streams from the Appalachians to Alaska. For the first several decades of my life, the greening up time of spring meant single-minded obsession with sparkling waters...
The Ultimate Gift for Those Pining for Africa

The Ultimate Gift for Those Pining for Africa

Robert Ruark books from the personal library of his professional hunter, Harry Selby, are the ultimate gift for those pining for Africa. For many who love and live for Africa, the writings of Robert Ruark are the next-best thing to being on safari. In point of fact,...
A Creel Full of Fine Angling Reads

A Creel Full of Fine Angling Reads

The richest of the various veins of sporting literature almost certainly is that devoted to angling in general and particularly fly fishing. It has a long, venerable history, dating all the way back to Dame Juliana Berners late 15th century work,...
Must-Read Mysteries for the Sportsman Reader

Must-Read Mysteries for the Sportsman Reader

Keith McCafferty headlines a list of talented mystery writers whose protagonists are gun- or rod-toting sleuths caught up in murder and mayhem. Reading has always been an integral and important part of my life. Mine was a blessed boyhood, one where I grew up in a home...
A Wolf Creek Chronicle

A Wolf Creek Chronicle

Carl Lear loved his father’s fly rod. At eight years old, he couldn’t remember a time when that rod had not been a part of his life, as it would continue to be for the rest of his days. The rod was a deep golden color with matching fly line that was much easier for...