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 […]
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Alabama Redfish out of Gulf Shores and Fort Morgan
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 […]
A Morning on Sipsey Fork: Alabama’s Year-Round Trout Stream
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 […]
Chasing Big Game in the Colorado Rockies (with Small Midges): Fat Trout on the South Platte
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 […]
Mountain Fork Trout, Broken Bow Oklahoma
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. […]
The Voices of Rivers
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 […]
Six Score Rainbows on the Mackenzie River (Oregon)
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 […]
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 […]
J.R.R.Tolkien, Hobbits, Food, and Thankfulness
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 […]
Big Trout, Warm Weather
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. […]
