July 2026

“To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.” – Barry Lopez When you wade a river for a season, it begins to shape your imagination. You become connected to its vicissitudes and your heart ripples to its iron strings. The water's rhythm gets into your core, so that even off the…

Photo by: Bob Knoebel “Our senses exist mainly to refine, or error-correct, our minds’ best guesses as to what we’re experiencing.” – Michael Pollan Every cast is a prediction, a question seeking resolution. The standard operating mode of a persistent angler is guess-adjust-guess-adjust. A refusal means you got it slightly wrong. Adjust again: the fly, tippet, drift, until…the loop never…

Photo by: Randy Ashton “Meaning, as well as water, can be impounded: can still and settle behind dam walls of thought.” – Robert Macfarlane There is no need to discard a lifetime of accumulated skill; however, breaking the dam of habit allows the river, and the angler, a chance to be new again. Silver Creek A few Tricos can be…