Four Days on the Snake River, Hell’s Canyon
Matthew Dickerson. The trip was taken in June of 2021 with ROW adventures. An earlier version of the following story first appeared as three separate stories (in three different issues) […]
Matthew Dickerson. The trip was taken in June of 2021 with ROW adventures. An earlier version of the following story first appeared as three separate stories (in three different issues) […]
Gulf Shores, Alabama Matthew Dickerson. (This feature first appeared in the Addison Independent, 11/26/2019.) My wife Deborah and I stood in shorts and t-shirts on a wildlife viewing platform in […]
Matthew Dickerson. Excerpted from “From Trout to Redfish: Fishing Alabama, North to South”, first published in the Addison Independent, October, 2019. Two mornings after my first time fly fishing for […]
Matthew Dickerson. Excerpted from “From Trout to Redfish: Fishing Alabama, North to South”, first published in the Addison Independent, October, 2019. Standing on a rocky shore beneath the shadow of […]
Matthew Dickerson With the quickly waning daylight, my chances of bagging any wild quarry that day were rapidly declining. Creeping along the dirt road, I glanced at the pale November […]
Matthew Dickerson The dry fly fishing had been slow. By late morning the air temperature had risen above 80, and trout were rising steadily all up and down the river. […]
Matthew Dickerson I am excited by the 2019 release of my book The Voices of Rivers: Reflections on Places Wild and Almost Wild, a collection of narrative non-fiction essays about […]
Matthew Dickerson I had a suspicion I would be in for a good day of fishing when, casting a dry fly from the drift boat launch, I landed two rainbow […]
Matthew Dickerson, February 2016 By late morning the air temperature had climbed to about 42°F. It was downright balmy by the standards of early February steelhead fishing. Cocooned beneath my […]
Matthew Dickerson, Thanksgiving 2018. As you might guess from the title, this essay is not about trout or rivers. Indeed, though J.R.R.Tolkien’s Middle-earth stories occasionally mention fish or fishing–mostly in […]