DEE FINKELDee Finkel has called various places in the Northeastern U.S. 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 from hardcore band Converge.

ANNE LANDFIELDAnne Landfield grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, fishing spring creeks with night crawlers she and her father plucked off their gravel driveway late at night. It wasn’t until later—after years of alpine ski racing, showing horses and earning a third-degree black belt in kung fu—that she took up flyfishing. Next, she left her high-tech marketing career as a copy director and now guides Washington state’s Puget Sound and surrounding watersheds. Landfield has a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Washington and has published her work in Zyzzyva, Fourteen Hills, Spectrum and The Santa Barbara Review.

ERIK REECEErik Reece is the author of six books of nonfiction, including Utopia Drive and Lost Mountain, which won Columbia University’s John B. Oakes Award for Outstanding Environmental Writing. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The Oxford American, The Atlantic, Orion and elsewhere. His collection of poems, Kingfisher Blues, will be published in November 2024 by the University Press of Kentucky. He teaches writing at the University of Kentucky and is the founder of Kentucky Writers and Artists for Reforestation.

TIM SCHULZTim Schulz is a freelance writer from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He is a frequent contributor to Hatch Magazine, and the author of two books: The Habits of Trout and A Cast Away in Montana. When not writing fishing stories, Schulz teaches electrical engineering at Michigan Tech, performs in a local band, plays hockey with octogenarians, and spends uncountable hours sitting beside a river waiting for trout to rise.

CHASE WHITEChase White is a British Columbia-based photographer and filmmaker. White aims to foster and protect populations of native fish, wild ecosystems and their unique cultures and communities through galvanizing storytelling. He is an ardent conservationist, donating his expertise and voice to the Native Fish Society, SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, Indigenous Watersheds Initiative and other groups. He lives in Squamish, BC, with his wife, Lindsay, and son, Waylon Jude. For more on White and his work, visit chasewhite.com and @anadromous on Instagram.