Lessons From a River

This is a story of stories. It is about one night on a river. It is a story about listening, about healing and about nature. This story is the reason I am here, now, talking to you. A few weeks ago, I drove with my father up to the Catskill Mountains in northwest New...

After All the Fish Have Gone

I grew up chasing trout and salmon across the American northeast. From New York to Maine to Canada, the water has always run cold, the pressure ever steady against my legs. Over the past twenty years, the conditions of my fishing have fluctuated with the weather. Some...

Save the Salmon

The way I tell the story, the day my father removed my last diaper he placed a fly rod in my hands. Since then, I’ve cast a line over nearly any open body of water I can find. He nurtured an avid fly fisherman, sure, but also an avid environmentalist. And so I...