S'mores Adult Hot Chocolate
A graham-cracker rimmed mug of spiked hot chocolate, piled with marshmallows, for the end of a cold day outside.
Tag: fall 2017
The Forged Fly
A welder who grew up fly fishing now forges steel dry flies and streamers, sparks flying, one hammered scale at a time.
Paula Shearer
A Bow River guide on breakaway fish, a lost anchor, and the client who finally landed one after years of trying.
The Do's and Don'ts of Layering
Cold water, warmer fishing: a layer-by-layer breakdown of what actually keeps you comfortable on the river this winter, and what to skip.
Perspective
A woman recalls four years of fly fishing obsession, and the quiet sting of being assumed a beginner because of her gender.
Twenty Eight Years
Twenty-eight years ago a stubborn colleague wouldn't hand over artwork until she went to a fly fishing slide show. She never really stopped going.
Firsts
Float planes, fly-caught pike, and shore lunch cooked over a fire pit a Cree guide built with his boots: a week of firsts in Northern Manitoba.
The Stages of Grief
A daughter sorts her late father's fly gear and learns to read grief the way he once read water.
Due North
A float plane, a canoe on the pontoon, and a river nobody else fishes: chasing the brook trout of a lifetime in northern Ontario.
Dear Everett
A letter to an unborn son about the summer his mother waded a river for trout, six months pregnant and unbothered.