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2019 Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award
The Traver Award was created in 1994 by Nick Lyons and the Voelker Foundation to encourage and recognize “distinguished original stories or essays that embody the implicit …
Thomas McGuane: The Misadventures of an Angler
An excerpt from The Longest Silence. Part of the allure of angling is the unexpected. That’s why we follow sports when so much else is curated …
A quintessential collection of fishing essays still hooks the heart
Thomas McGuane’s The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing, which is being reissued this month, is not a new book; most of it, aside from seven …
The Philosophy of Fly Fishing
When I was seventeen, I drove to Missoula, Montana, to learn how to fly-fish. The town is one of the best places to fish in …
The tough old trout of the Fryingpan River
The gauntlet of fisherpersons on the Fryingpan River is a sight to see. Lined up like soldiers, they are ready to do battle with anything …
Letter of Recommendation: Urban Fly-Fishing
James Pogue on how he learned to feed his fly fishing obsession in the urban wild. I may not be seeing otters or elk, but …
TBT: The girl, the trout and the bikini (or, how my career as a professional fly fisherman swam away)
A classic that we originally posted in 2009. A girl popped out of the driver’s side and she began untying the little craft. She was …
Fly-Fishing in an Age of Unraveling
The election of a reality-show president drives a writer to crank up his fly-tying vise. I had never been interested in tying my own flies. …