Alice Owsley fools a hopper-hungry cutthroat on a small stream deep in northwest Yellowstone National Park, WY. Photo: Arian Stevens The Mackay Reservoir dam in Idaho had a head gate malfunction during the summer of 2023 and as a result the reservoir was emptied. These small springs seeped down, creating an intricate system of […]
When it comes to reading, I suffer from a deficit of attention. I say “suffer,” though I’m not sure I experience it as such. Scattered around my home—on my nightstand, on the coffee table, on my desk, on other flat surfaces here and there—are the various books I’ve begun reading over the past several months […]
Chris huntChris Hunt is an award-winning journalist, author and conservationist who worked passionately for almost two decades on behalf of America’s trout and salmon. In December 2021, he and two business partners launched Hatch Adventure Travel, a small booking agency that sends anglers around the globe to chase everything from taimen in Mongolia to sea […]
“Good god,” Max says from the bow, “please, please, please get a new reel. Hell, I’ll even pay for it.” This is not the first time he has pleaded with me to replace this gimpy old Orvis beater. All around us white bass are blowing up in violent, silvery slashes and boils as they push […]
It was a weird summer, hot and dry. It felt like the end of an angry August in early July. Spring runoff had come and run its course before the end of May. The water was on the cusp of being too warm and the rivers were busy, the boat launches buzzing with the breathy […]
I’m not supposed to be here. People with “-aire” at the end of their net worth belong here. People with fancy titles and big responsibilities belong here. Me? Last year’s taxes had me in the mid-five figures. Certainly not an “-aire” of any kind. I’m here in the icy cold waters of the Huseyjarkvisl River […]
Sooner or later, if you are fishing or thinking about fishing, you are mixed up with time—the “real” time of daily life within the bounds of opening and closing days, past time filtered through memory or constructed in imagination, archetypal time, or the time we loosely call eternity. On a random lazy afternoon in late […]
Near the hiss of pressurized coffee alchemy in a café in South Fork, CO, a small sign on the door reads: “An Angler’s Bookcase.” Beyond it you will find row after row of books, from old leather-bound volumes to shiny new copies signed by their authors. Antique fly rods occupy locked display cases with rare […]
For James and Ryan Wicks The widow sold the bag of them for 20 bucks. They were laid next to her dead husband’s creel and automatic reel on the table in the yard. One gallon of black buggers for a night of tips seemed like a steal but what more
Daybreak has broken, and spackled light floods through the red cups that lean in their stacks against the wall. Each dimple in their foundation kaleidoscopes light across the yellowing plaster. Legend has it those cups were the only remnants left floating in the wreckage after one of the strongest hurricanes to hit Marathon and the […]
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