A Visit to Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]