Mr Tutt is No Gentleman
“A gentleman!” repeated Quelch sarcastically. “Will you kindly inform me in what respect a person calling himself a gentleman differs from anyone else?” Mr. Ephraim Tutt had just come out of the clubhouse and was standing, rod in hand, on the...
The Pond in Winter
A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye, looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. “Home is the sailor, home from the sea.” Whether the voice hails from the salty ocean, a great lake, trickling...
Move Over Jimmy Buffett, Meet the Coolest Salt of the Sea
Wherever the currents of time find Pallot, you can bet the fish will be biting and he’ll make room in the boat for you—whether in person or vicariously. What could be cooler than that? For 15 seasons a lanky poet with the central casting name of Flip Pallot poled a...
Celebrity Fishermen and Women
The chances of running into Jimmy Buffett at the dock or President George W. Bush at the fly shop are pretty slim, but there are a lot of celebs who enjoy wetting a line like the rest of us. Here are a few notables who could be working the same waters as you one of...
Wahoo, Indeed
The famed angler hooks into a species he later said made him “seem like an amateur.”