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. […]
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 […]
