Twice-weekly Hemingway-style fishing stories.
Every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 a.m. UTC.
April 2, 2026
A Vermont dawn on Lake Champlain in Burlington. I chase smallmouth and lake trout over rocky shoals, traveling from Hanover, NH, toward Battenkill after this stop.
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March 31, 2026
On the Connecticut River in Hanover, NH, the river bends widen and the current runs deep for smallmouth and shad. The road from Lake Winnipesaukee to New Hampshire’s river bends shapes a quiet day in pursuit of bass and curiosity.
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March 26, 2026
A two-hour drive from Quabbin to Lake Winnipesaukee tests calm waters and steady hands in pursuit of landlocked salmon and lake trout.
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March 24, 2026
A hard two-hour drive from Cape Cod leads to Quabbin Reservoir, where cold, deep water hides lake trout and stubborn smallmouth. This piece follows the reach of line, the hush of shoreline, and the steady drift toward New Hampshire.
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March 19, 2026
A driving tale from Watch Hill to Cape Cod, chasing striped bass and bluefish along sandy bars.
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March 17, 2026
A drove morning along the Rhode Island coast. Watch Hill’s rocky points test a fisherman chasing striped bass and the quick schooling false albacore.
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March 12, 2026
A Rhode Island chapter: chasing striped bass and bluefish through Narragansett Bay’s channels, after a drive from New Haven and toward Watch Hill.
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March 10, 2026
A traveling angler threads a line from the Farmington River into New Haven’s salt, chasing striped bass and bluefish along the harbor edges of Long Island Sound.
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March 5, 2026
A brief crossing from Montauk to Connecticut, chasing brown and rainbow trout on the tailwater. A quiet day, water clear, the river asking for hands that understand its rhythm.
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March 3, 2026
A crossing from Oswego to Montauk Point, chasing striped bass and false albacore along rocky rips, with a nod to the road that leads toward Farmington River.
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February 26, 2026
Across Oswego’s Lake Ontario shores, the river of fish runs deep. A six-hour drive from Cape May Inlet, the tale turns toward steelhead and chinook on cold-water staging.
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February 24, 2026
A two-hour ride from the Delaware River to Cape May Inlet players a day of striped bass and bluefish, riding the tidal rip where water learns the shore.
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February 19, 2026
A two-hour trek from Indian River Inlet to Lambertville, chasing smallmouth and shad along rocky seams of the Delaware River, with Cape May Inlet to follow.
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February 17, 2026
A salt-swept day at Indian River Inlet, chasing striped bass and flounder as the inlet tests the angler’s nerve and gear.
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February 12, 2026
A quiet day prowling the Lewes inlet for striped bass and bluefish, riding saltwater tides from Assateague to Indian River Inlet.
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February 10, 2026
A first-pass from the road to Assateague Island. Striped bass and bluefish carve the surf as the coast whispers of Delaware Bay looming ahead.
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February 5, 2026
A four-hour drive from Smith Mountain Lake lands me in Annapolis, chasing striped bass and bluefish along working docks on the Chesapeake Bay.
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February 3, 2026
A winter drive from Hampton Roads to a clear-water reservoir in Virginia, chasing largemouth and striped bass with a patient hand.
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January 27, 2026
A winter quest for rainbow and brown trout along the Davidson River, tracing a drumbeat from the Outer Banks to the heart of North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest.
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January 22, 2026
A long drive from Lake Murray to Cape Hatteras leads to winter surf for red drum and striped bass, with the sea’s cold breath and distant shoals shaping the hunt.
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January 20, 2026
A corridor of water, two species, and a quiet drive from Charleston toward the next coast.
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January 15, 2026
A three-hour drive from the marshes of St. Simons Island leads to Charleston Harbor, where redfish and speckled trout test the angler’s patience along saltwater tides.
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January 13, 2026
A one-hour drive from Savannah ends among salt marsh flats, chasing redfish and speckled trout along St. Simons Island.
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January 8, 2026
A traveling angler tempers long roads with the tug of largemouth and channel on the Savannah River's tidal bends.
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January 6, 2026
From Key West to Everglades City, the mangrove lanes held snook and redfish in quiet patience. I crossed salt paths toward Savannah, learning water’s language along the way.
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January 1, 2026
A road-worn angler walks from the Hemingway Home to the flats of Key West, chasing tarpon and bonefish as the sun roughens the salt. The tale threads memory and water across a state line toward Everglades City.
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December 29, 2025
A hunt for northern pike along snow-lashed tributaries under a hard bluebird sky after a cold front, drifting indicators along seam edges with wind-chilled water and patient hands.
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December 25, 2025
A winter chase across ice-locked flats for ghostly bonefish, where dawn light bleeds over frost and the ice shelves sigh with the tides.
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December 22, 2025
In the Everglades backcountry, under mangroves, chasing pike as a cold front slips out to sea.
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December 15, 2025
A night run through Pacific volcanic lagoons where bonefish chase stacked perch, while dawn light finds water and danger in the same breath.
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December 11, 2025
A quiet, windswept morning chasing skittish bonefish along bright flats at first light, with breath fog and careful casts drifting along seams.
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December 8, 2025
A dawn vigil along snow-lined Great Lakes tributaries, chasing stacked yellow perch under breath-ghosts and drifting indicators.
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December 4, 2025
A quiet trek through volcanic lagoons where bonefish chase chrome and winter steelhead drift under snowfall, a fisherman learns to read ice, water, and breath.
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December 1, 2025
A brisk dawn on windswept prairie reservoirs where bright flats move like distant reefs, and bonefish rise to a jigged spoon beneath a light snowfall.
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November 27, 2025
A slow-troll along weed edges as tides slice spartina and a first push of winter wind sets the water to glass and shadow.
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November 24, 2025
A river rode with tannin and wind. A speckled trout chase under amber light along the spartina. A simple day, a stubborn fish, a quiet end that won’t end.
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November 20, 2025
A dawn chase through spartina wedges as tidal cuts braid through islands, chasing migrating striped bass amid bait clouds and the first bite of a nor’easter.
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November 17, 2025
A cautious paddle through fog-lifted oxbows and the burn of double-8 bucktails as prehistoric sturgeon haunt the depths.
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November 13, 2025
A quiet paddle for monstrous catfish among mossy elbows of cypress, where cedar smoke drifts and embers hover over spartina.
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November 10, 2025
A quiet dawn on marsh grass flats as fog lifts and migrating stripers edge near weed lines. Slow planers, patient lines, and the first birds answering the morning.
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November 6, 2025
Gulf coast flats turn to gold at sundown as ghostly brook trout haunt weed edges and the tide lingers.
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November 3, 2025
A dawn hunt along salt-stung piers, where ambush snook lurk under mangroves as a nor’easter breathes in from the sea.
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October 30, 2025
A salt-bronze morning on the gulf coast marsh. Tailing redfish, screaming corks, and the soft heat of cedar smoke rising from camp.
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October 28, 2025
Chasing king salmon near river mouths as a nor’easter hints. Slow-trolls, weed edges, and the first sign of weather in the marsh.
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October 27, 2025
A dawn patrol along salt-streaked piers as fog lifts, chasing walleye off drop-offs with double-8 bucktails.
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October 23, 2025
A slow-told tale of king salmon staging, tamaracks, and planers skimming weed edges as a nor’easter begins to whisper over northern bogs.
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October 20, 2025
A dawn patrol along salt-stung piers as silver coho rush upriver, ahead of a brewing storm front. Corks pop along spartina, the water listening for every ripple.
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October 16, 2025
A river sleeps dark and tea-colored. Moonlight finds the silver, and corks pop along the marsh grasses.
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