In honor of the first day of school, a repost from a while back. For all teachers, nervous parents and, of course, kindergarteners of all...

I haven’t read all of Howard Frank Mosher’s novels yet, but so far the books I have read all include trout fishing. There isn’t much...

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“Fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion… trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed...

During the night in Jim Lepage's camp on Caribou Lake, I dreamed of trout fishing, just as Thoreau had at Abol Stream. This was no...

Henry David Thoreau was badass. Many people think of philosophers, naturalists and social activists as what, shall we say, soft? But...

I am not sure what I expected, but certainly not this. When I was planning my #StoriedWaters trip, I included the Rapid River in Maine,...

I’ve never actually seen one of the Boys dance at the Dartmouth College Grant, except maybe a little victory jig when someone lands a big...

Lancaster, New Hampshire is a delightful little town. The reason the per capita level of delight is so high in this northern village of...

In his critically-acclaimed book, Vermont River, author and fly-fisherman W.D. Wetherell never tells us exactly which river he is writing...

My Storied Waters journey has only been four weeks so far, not ten years. Still, like Homer's Odysseus, I have seen some fantastic...

When mayflies are hatching, it’s not just the trout that take notice. Swallows (during the day) and bats (at dusk) divebomb from above...

It has been a cool, wet spring in northern Michigan. The rivers have been running high, and the bug hatches are off by about a week or...

I felt like I had walked onto the pages of Trout Magic. There I was- casting into the fabled Frenchman’s Pond under the friendly guidance...

This whole trip is Gracie's doing. Last year, when we were preparing to publish The Confluence, I had to get permission to reprint the...

Aldo Leopold was worried about the future of the Flambeau River. In A Sand County Almanac, he explains how his father “used to describe...

Everyone has a hero, or so we say. My heroes are not your typical war or sports heroes, nor people who performed some superhuman or super...

After getting off the Yellow Breeches at 6:30 on Saturday, I drove only a couple hours before I was ready for dinner and a good night’s...

Yellow Breeches, Full of stitches, Mammy sewed the buttons on. Daddy kicked me out of bed For sleeping with the breeches on. The source...

Lou Zambello and I had been waiting for the sulfur hatch to start, but it was now after 8:00, so we were wondering if the hatch would...