The Fishing Way

Twice-weekly Hemingway-style fishing stories.

Every Monday and Thursday at 10 a.m. UTC.

Archive

Every outing, logged and ready for another cup of coffee. Find the story that fits your next tide, hatch, or stretch of river.

  1. December 25, 2025

    Frozen Seas, Skittish Bones

    A winter chase across ice-locked flats for ghostly bonefish, where dawn light bleeds over frost and the ice shelves sigh with the tides.

  2. December 22, 2025

    Bluebird Sky, Sloughs, and Long Northerns

    In the Everglades backcountry, under mangroves, chasing pike as a cold front slips out to sea.

  3. December 15, 2025

    Bonefish on the Volcano’s Edge

    A night run through Pacific volcanic lagoons where bonefish chase stacked perch, while dawn light finds water and danger in the same breath.

  4. December 11, 2025

    Dawn on the Windward Flats

    A quiet, windswept morning chasing skittish bonefish along bright flats at first light, with breath fog and careful casts drifting along seams.

  5. December 8, 2025

    Snow-Lined Tributaries, Dawn, and Yellow Perch

    A dawn vigil along snow-lined Great Lakes tributaries, chasing stacked yellow perch under breath-ghosts and drifting indicators.

  6. December 4, 2025

    Dawn in a Pacific Lagoon: Bonefish, Snow, and the Quiet Weight of Winter Steel

    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.

  7. December 1, 2025

    Windswept Flats, Snowfall, and the Chase of Skittish Bonefish

    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.

  8. November 27, 2025

    Dawn Cuts: Tidal Lines, Ambush Snook, and the First Nor’easter

    A slow-troll along weed edges as tides slice spartina and a first push of winter wind sets the water to glass and shadow.

  9. November 24, 2025

    Tannin Rivers, Amber Evenings, and Gulf Speckled Trout

    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.

  10. November 20, 2025

    Tidal Cuts and First Nor'easter Push

    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.

  11. November 17, 2025

    Dawn on Blackwater Oxbows

    A cautious paddle through fog-lifted oxbows and the burn of double-8 bucktails as prehistoric sturgeon haunt the depths.

  12. November 13, 2025

    Dawn in the Bayou Bends

    A quiet paddle for monstrous catfish among mossy elbows of cypress, where cedar smoke drifts and embers hover over spartina.

  13. November 10, 2025

    Fog Lifts, Flats Heave: Chasing Striped Dreams on a Gulf Coast Marsh

    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.

  14. November 6, 2025

    Amber Light, Marsh Grass, and the Chase for Brook Trout

    Gulf coast flats turn to gold at sundown as ghostly brook trout haunt weed edges and the tide lingers.

  15. November 3, 2025

    Salt-Stained Piers at Dawn: Chasing Ambush Snook Under Mangroves

    A dawn hunt along salt-stung piers, where ambush snook lurk under mangroves as a nor’easter breathes in from the sea.

  16. October 30, 2025

    Tail on the Flats, Cedar Smoke, and the Quiet Beckoning of Dawn

    A salt-bronze morning on the gulf coast marsh. Tailing redfish, screaming corks, and the soft heat of cedar smoke rising from camp.

  17. October 28, 2025

    Dawn on the Gulf: King Salmon, Marsh Grass Flats, and a Quiet North Wind

    Chasing king salmon near river mouths as a nor’easter hints. Slow-trolls, weed edges, and the first sign of weather in the marsh.

  18. October 27, 2025

    Dawn on the Salt-Stained Pier: Chasing Night-Walleye

    A dawn patrol along salt-streaked piers as fog lifts, chasing walleye off drop-offs with double-8 bucktails.

  19. October 23, 2025

    First Push of the Nor’easter on Northwoods Bog Lakes

    A slow-told tale of king salmon staging, tamaracks, and planers skimming weed edges as a nor’easter begins to whisper over northern bogs.

  20. October 20, 2025

    Dawn on Salt-Stained Piers, Coho in Tow

    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.

  21. October 16, 2025

    Tannin and Moonlight: Coho Currents on Spartina Nights

    A river sleeps dark and tea-colored. Moonlight finds the silver, and corks pop along the marsh grasses.