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The True Cast – Joy
They say that if you find a profession where you do something that you genuinely love, you never really work a day in your life. I write and edit magazines about fly fishing for my job. That’s led me to visit and fish 29 other countries around the world, five continents, four oceans, and all…
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The True Cast – Small Water
There’s this corny (but true!) saying that describes the “stages” of an angler. First, you want to catch a fish. Then you want to catch a lot of fish. Then you want to catch a really big fish. Then you want to catch many big fish. And then… when you’ve done all those things… all…
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The True Cast – Hope
The beauty of trout fishing is that it inspires hope. Plain and simple. That’s where it all starts and ends. Think about it. Every cast you make ignites a tiny little episode of hope. Hope is what keeps bringing anglers back time after time You drop that cast right near the spot where you saw…
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The True Cast – Camo for casting? Does it matter?
One of the topics many of my friends just “agree to disagree” on is whether wearing drab colors, or even camouflaging yourself really matters at all in the context of trout fishing. If you go to New Zealand and show up in a loud Hawaiian shirt, the locals will laugh you off the river. Then…
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The True Cast – Can you judge a magazine by its cover? We sure hope so!
They say you cannot judge a book by its cover, and I believe that. But I think it’s a whole different ballgame when it comes to magazines. Granted, that game is changing in this era, but when it comes to printed periodicals, covers still matter. As an editor, I can tell you that the cover…
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The True Cast – Is Eight Enough?
Capping the number of caught-and-released fish could solve a lot of problems… and bum a lot of people out. I’m just back from a couple of weeks in England, where I got to fish some fabled chalk streams, like the River Itchen and River Test. It was an interesting trip that got my mind spinning…
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A tribute to Chris Santella…
I’m sure he’s already on the ultimate sequel. The fly-fishing world is a little bit less “adventurous,” and quite a bit less “literary” now, because we recently lost one of the purest, most inspiring writing voices the sport has ever known. Chris Santella gracefully succumbed to cancer at the age of 61 on May 23.…
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