David A. Van Wie
Walking To Charlottesville
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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David A. Van Wie
Aug 11, 20171 min read
The Storied Waters Odyssey In 25 Fabulous Images
Run your cursor over each image for a description. Enjoy!!
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David A. Van Wie
Jul 19, 20177 min read
Epilogue - The Storied Waters Chronicle
“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...
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David A. Van Wie
Jul 1, 20179 min read
Dud Dean and a Dream Come True
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...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 30, 20179 min read
Kennebago to Katahdin: Back in Thoreau Country
Henry David Thoreau was badass. Many people think of philosophers, naturalists and social activists as what, shall we say, soft? But...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 30, 201710 min read
I Took To The Woods
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,...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 27, 20177 min read
they shake the mountains when they dance
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...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 24, 20176 min read
Tie Flies When You're Having Fun
Lancaster, New Hampshire is a delightful little town. The reason the per capita level of delight is so high in this northern village of...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 14, 20176 min read
The Kingdom River
In his critically-acclaimed book, Vermont River, author and fly-fisherman W.D. Wetherell never tells us exactly which river he is writing...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 13, 20178 min read
My Homerian Odyssey
My Storied Waters journey has only been four weeks so far, not ten years. Still, like Homer's Odysseus, I have seen some fantastic...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 9, 20176 min read
Grackles Unlimited
When mayflies are hatching, it’s not just the trout that take notice. Swallows (during the day) and bats (at dusk) divebomb from above...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 6, 20174 min read
The Trout Also Rises
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...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 2, 20176 min read
Bourbon Out Of An Old Tin Cup
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...
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David A. Van Wie
May 31, 20174 min read
Amazing Grace
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...
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David A. Van Wie
May 29, 20176 min read
Exploring The Flambeau & Namakagon Rivers in Northern Wisconsin
Aldo Leopold was worried about the future of the Flambeau River. In A Sand County Almanac, he explains how his father “used to describe...
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David A. Van Wie
May 29, 20175 min read
Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin
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...
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David A. Van Wie
May 26, 20176 min read
The Fishing Were Rising, But I Needed More Bytes
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...
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David A. Van Wie
May 25, 20175 min read
Yellow Breeches
Yellow Breeches, Full of stitches, Mammy sewed the buttons on. Daddy kicked me out of bed For sleeping with the breeches on. The source...
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David A. Van Wie
May 24, 20176 min read
Mr. Van Wie, Mr. Brown is on Line Two
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...
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David A. Van Wie
May 22, 20176 min read
A Touch of Graystones
If Pennsylvania is the bedrock of American fly fishing, that bedrock is folded and wrinkled like the fishing clothes stuffed into my...
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