by Johnny Carrol Sain - Monday, Aug 29th, 2016
August in Arkansas. Lawns dried to a crispy, dusty brown. Bathwater lake temperatures, creeks cinched down to trickling riffles with pools full of hungry smallmouth bass. Day after day of 95-105 degree sunshine, which seems a damn near impossible combination with the ungodly and stifling humidity billowing up from the Gulf of Mexico. I like to spend this time waist deep in the creek.
But that’s not what’s happening this year.
by Kris Millgate - Friday, Aug 26th, 2016
Whitefish belly up on my right. Few minutes later, another one off the nose of the boat. It’s early fall on the South Fork of the Snake River in Idaho. The cool release following summer heat is a relief, but it didn’t come soon enough in this cottonwood-lined corridor. Dead whitefish are the fatal sign and the sight is alarming. Whitefish are a river’s canary in a coalmine. If something is wrong with whitefish, something is wrong with the river.
by Kris Millgate - Wednesday, Aug 24th, 2016
The message comes in via text: “Millgate, get up here. We gotta fish. The Yellowstone is like it used to be.”
by Tom Davis - Monday, Aug 22nd, 2016
Last September, having concluded that hunting grouse in the jungles typical of opening weekend isn’t sport so much as self-abuse, I decided to open the Wisconsin grouse season by going trout fishing.
by Matthew Reilly - Wednesday, Aug 17th, 2016
There’s not much more peaceful than a simple breakfast amid the chirpings of an awakening northern forest. Humans, with their God-like reign over fuel, need do little more than boil water and add it to oats and coffee grounds to enjoy a meal as comfortable as one prepared in the modern home. After doing just that, on a brisk morning on a remote pond in the Maine woods, I recorded those thoughts, and reveled in the opportunity to be where I was.
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