Hoosier Trout
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, 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 […]
Matthew Dickerson, September 2017 I recently had a chance to fish for a day and a half in one of those small New England streams that holds surprisingly big trout. […]
Matthew Dickerson, May 2018 Note: Although this piece is not about trout or fly fishing, and doesn’t even technically take place take place inside Acadia National Park, it is about […]
Matthew Dickerson, May 2018 (For more on Acadia–especially from my May, 2018 residency–see my book The Voices of Rivers from Homebound Publications, 2019) ••• We parked the Outback off at […]
by Matthew Dickerson, Summer 2018 2:00pm rolled around and we still hadn’t spotted one of the famous Alaskan brown bears we had come to Katmai National Park and Preserve to […]
Matthew Dickerson‘s new book A Tale of Three Rivers: Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout is now available. Continuing in his HeartStreams […]
Mist clung to the steep hillsides closing us in on all sides. From time to time, it cleared enough to offer glimpses of higher slopes dominated by tall pines. For […]
Matthew Dickerson (March 2018) Note: The following two stories (though without all the photos) appeared in my biweekly newspaper column in the Addison Independent. ••• A brisk wind blew off […]
Editors Note: This series of newspaper stories from the Addison Independent was awarded First Place in the NENPA (New England Newspaper and Press Awards) for best sports column of 2017 […]