You see that? That’s what we call the bubble line, those little specks of white that float on the surface downstream of a riffle. It’s where we look for feeding trout in Father’s Day Creek, and just about everywhere else. Sometimes you’re casting to flat water, a place in the river that looks almost still, … Continue reading Casting into the bubble line
How the Founding Fathers Fished
I went to the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing and Film Show in Carlisle Saturday morning for the purpose of giving some exposure to Father's Day Creek in the commonwealth of the book’s setting. I was fortunate to be assigned a vendor table near Ye Olde Colonial Angler. While I’m sure I would have spotted him no … Continue reading How the Founding Fathers Fished
Adrift in a river of reveries
“If men ceased to exist, sound would continue to travel and heavy bodies to fall to the earth in exactly the same way, though there would be no one to know it.” That’s a quote from one of the many philosophers who have pondered the time-worn question about a tree falling in the woods. When … Continue reading Adrift in a river of reveries
Fatherhood and fishing
Having sat patiently with the rest of the audience through my discussion of fly fishing, a man raised his hand at a recent talk about my book in Baltimore and asked, “What about the fatherhood part?” And he put me on the spot. He caught me avoiding a key subject of the book. An influential … Continue reading Fatherhood and fishing
Hemingway 100: Fishing the Big Two-Hearted River
We have arrived at the centennial year of the Michigan fishing trip that inspired one of Ernest Hemingway’s most memorable short stories, the two-part “Big Two-Hearted River,” a Nick Adams story about getting back from war and back to nature -- back to feeling life at the end of a fly line. Hemingway, while still … Continue reading Hemingway 100: Fishing the Big Two-Hearted River
