The question that haunts Maclean’s readers is basically the one this new book tries to answer: Why did such a fine writer write so little and so late—as his son, John, a bestselling author, once put the matter.

WHITEFISH BEWARE 

OF PEOPLE AND OSPREYS.

Otherwise known as the beginning of the end...

Last August I wrote about Judge Redden’s rejection of the Obama administration’s plan to restore Columbia River steelhead and salmon. Well, it’s déjà vu all over again.

In my dreams I see their rise forms and as it has been ever since I was a boy, and I fall in love trout fishing and become consumed.