Winter’s night presses down on the Teton Valley of eastern Idaho. Headlights twist and beam through a storm of thick flakes, slick roads and rising snowbanks. I pull off Highway 33 and down a stranger’s driveway for a Craigslist deal—I need to unload some winter gear on my way home from work in Jackson, WY. […]

“They have a sense of reality that is a total illusion,” Jorge Trucco says from the driver’s seat of his SUV. We are on a dirt road near Junín de los Andes in Argentine Patagonia. The tall, windswept poplars we pass have turned amber and Trucco is nearing the end of a long season. We […]

“It happened right there—just off that mangrove island,” Ansil Saunders says.  He points to the spot where in 1971 his client, Jerry Lavenstein, a now-deceased sportsman from Virginia Beach, VA, caught a 16-pound bonefish on eight-pound test on a live shrimp. That fish was an all-tackle world record, one that still stands. Saunders is a […]

My first copy of The Curtis Creek Manifesto was given to me by an old professor. He wasn’t much of a fisherman, but he knew about such things. I told him I’d taken up flyfishing, and he went looking for something in his shop. He stopped rummaging long enough to give a lecture on the […]

“It’s like the same chance of flipping a poker chip in the air and having it land perfectly on its edge and upright,” he says from a prone position on his couch. His tone is matter of fact, nonrevealing, much like a poker face would be to a voice. He has a full gray beard […]

The band let gravity dictate where they’d fish. “In the spring and summer months, when the fishing was good anywhere, we used to flip a coin to decide whether we were going saltwater or freshwater,” says Chuck Ragan, singer, guitarist and former front man for the pioneering punk rock act Hot Water Music.  Maybe they […]