“In another life”… “I was a fly fisherman.” Alan Feia-- Local Chama, New Mexico, Artist & Angler Our little community of Chama, New...

“If you’re stumped and wonder aloud what do to do next, at least half of the fly fishers in North America will say, ‘I don’t know, I’ll...

“Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and...

el vado: (noun) (from Spanish): a ford, a shallow place in river or stream allowing one to walk or drive across El Vado, Part One: The...

"Nick's heart tightened as the trout moved. He felt all the old feeling." Ernest Hemingway- Big Two Hearted River (photo above: Sherry...

I was gone for an hour. Less than an hour really. As I pulled onto the highway, an unkindness of ravens scattered from the side of the...

"The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we...

"Only those with patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily." Johann Schiller A quiet...

"Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest." Charles Moore To say that there are a few things that I don't understand in...

"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY." Herbert Hoover Last fall, a Lake City, Colorado man caught a new...

..."are you alive, or are you not?" Sargent Wes Dyer, USMC Founder AWOL Angler describes "the Fray" This story begins, as many stories...

"Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific...

"This used to be a dry fly town and unfortunately it's gone the other way...." Streamers Inc. September 22, 2023. First day of autumn,...

In a world that insists on "means" and "ends," that dooms every path to a destination, fishing elides the categories and so slips the...

“This fish evolved alongside the Rio Grande cutthroat trout and the Rio Grande sucker. It fills a unique tropic position within the...

"Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic...

"A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants, from insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans." ~Aldo Leopold...

"All other divisions aside, I think in the end there are but two kinds of anglers--those born to fishing and those not. It has nothing to...

Remote winters drain into the valley in icy, turbid water, running between grassy banks. Ted Leeson The Habit of Rivers As spring begins...

"The grossest and most substantial of our equipment exists solely to serve the slightest; a thousand dollars' worth of gear is given...