Steve DudaSteve Duda is an author, editor and cultural journalist. His most recent book, River Songs (Mountaineers Books, 2024), was described as “the London Calling of flyfishing books,” with stories marked by “ferocious honesty and breathtaking intensity.” He is the former editor of this journal, a founding editor of Boise Weekly and editor of The Rocket. His cultural reporting has appeared in Rolling Stone, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Seattle Weekly, Democracy Now! and other outlets. He currently serves as Head of Fish Tales at Patagonia, leading multimedia storytelling focused on flyfishing and conservation. Steve lives in Seattle with his partner and a semi-feral feline/raccoon hybrid he’s attempting to train to play the banjo.

Dee FinkelDee Finkel has called various places in the Northeast United States home, from Philadelphia to Boston and a few places in between. She currently resides in western Massachusetts where she dreams about flyfishing and fly-tying all day at the car dealership where she works, much to her manager’s chagrin. Her work has appeared in The Drake Magazine, Metro Paper and other outlets, and was featured in The Long Road Home, a DVD by hardcore band Converge.

Liam GallagherLiam Gallagher was born at Children’s Hospital in San Francisco, raised in the suburbs of Portland, OR, and currently lives on the north end of Bellingham, WA. He first went flyfishing as a freshman at the University of Montana in Missoula, where he studied journalism. While there, he was struck by a phrase on a plaque above Dean Jerry Brown’s desk that read: “Fancy writing won’t feed the bulldog.” He’s spent the last 20 years working to figure out what the hell that means. If you have any idea, he kindly requests you DM him @liamogallagher.

Jostein HenriksenJostein Henriksen is a freelance journalist and editor at Scandinavian flyfishing magazine Oppstrøms. He has a penchant for salmonids, music with major seventh chords, Sheffield Wednesday F.C. and dreamy nature writing. His first book—about the Atlantic wild salmon—is set to be published shortly, though probably not translated into English anytime soon (unless you know a guy).

Jono WinnelJono Winnel is studying for a doctorate in ecology and evolution at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Previously, he worked as an ecological consultant across Queensland, Australia. His photography has appeared in The Drake, Nature, Oppstrøms and Gestalten. Home is a dusty sleeping bag somewhere beside a clear stream.