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  • A Touch of Grey

    It is Sunday morning and outside it is still predawn dark. While yesterday began at a cold 17 degrees, today it is already 43 degrees. Yesterday, instead of going to another No Kings Rally, I drove over the border into Wisconsin to scout out fishing access points on the Kinnickinnic River. I used to fish… Read more

  • Spring on the Big Two-Hearted River

    Every spring for more than 45 years now, I re-read The Big Two-Hearted River. It is, to my mind, the best story about fishing ever written. It is also one of the five best short stories I have ever read. In the early 1980s my friend Bob and I camped and fished the Escanaba River in… Read more

  • Book Review: Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

    In the summer of 1984, I drove a 1964 Galaxy 500 (Deluxe Sport Coupe) 1713 miles from Dillon, Montana to Saginaw, Michigan with only one companion – a beat-up paperback edition of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America. The radio was original with the car. In eastern Montana and western North Dakota I could seldom pick… Read more