
Read by the River
Fix your yard, help a fish?
Join us for a discussion of backyard ecology in our Summer edition of the Read By the River book club.
Fly-fishing literature, reading recommendations, and books that capture the spirit of angling. Stories and wisdom from writers who understand the water.
Read by the River
Join us for a discussion of backyard ecology in our Summer edition of the Read By the River book club.
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Gleaning advice for taking your first guided fly-fishing trip from legendary fly-fishing guides and a tome that's stood the test of time
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The season kicks off with a rush of fun, with the TroutFest agenda dropping, a little soliloquy, a report from our book club, and my first significant fish of the new season.
Read by the River
Saving dolphins, propitiating river spirits, and the future of history
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Roll cameras, because the Fly Fishing Film Tour came to town.
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If you wish to make a fly rod from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Grand Canyon dreaming, communing with the fishes, Jackson County's finest, Tokyo shopping, and a great smallmouth bass learning opportunity
Books
When we can't fish and make stories, we read stories. Sometimes those are fly-fishing stories, and sometimes they're not. Here are three that rolled across the bedside table, from the Grand Canyon to the Mariana Trench to the Carhartteratti of Jackson Hole's Persephone Bakery.
Writing
Many presidents have fished, but few had the soul of an angler.
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Sometimes, literally. The five favorite (mostly) fly-fishing books I read this year
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Recalling the shaper of a Platonic fly-fishing reality, in his own words
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Digging in on the progression from Aspen Extreme to Trout Bum (RIP John Gierach), Grant Petersen CFS GOAT, SalmonSuperHwy lauded by the White House, and more
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On Adam Phillips, and finding, and re-finding our identities as anglers
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Moving beyond the engineering mindset, and trying to embrace frustration as a key function of learning
Writing
Books that will improve your fly-fishing. A definitive list of all the best fly-fishing books, from beginner to technical methods, from entomology to romantic lore and conservation. And, of course, great writing.
Writing
If you get a chance to visit the Angler's Club in New York City, take it. It's the nucleus of the sport's North American origins.
Nymphing
We were lucky enough to get some time with George (in between the Green Drake blitz, even!) and had the chance to ask him a few questions about his approach to the book.