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Four Days on the Snake River, Hell’s Canyon

April 9, 2022by Matthew Dickerson

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) […]

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Features, National Parks, Forests, and Refuges, Northern Rockies (CO, WY, MT, ID), Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, northern CA), Uncategorized

A Visit to Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge

December 17, 2019by Matthew Dickerson

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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Features, Uncategorized

Alabama Redfish out of Gulf Shores and Fort Morgan

December 15, 2019by Matthew Dickerson

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 […]

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A Morning on Sipsey Fork: Alabama’s Year-Round Trout Stream

December 15, 2019by Matthew Dickerson

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 […]

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Central and Southern Appalachians (TN, NC, GA, SC, KY), Features

Chasing Big Game in the Colorado Rockies (with Small Midges): Fat Trout on the South Platte

July 26, 2019by Matthew Dickerson

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 […]

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Features, Northern Rockies (CO, WY, MT, ID)

Mountain Fork Trout, Broken Bow Oklahoma

July 25, 2019by Matthew Dickerson

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. […]

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Central (MN, MI, WI, IN, AR, OK), Features, National Parks, Forests, and Refuges

The Voices of Rivers

July 25, 2019by Matthew Dickerson

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 […]

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Alaska, Features, Maine, National Parks, Forests, and Refuges, Northern Rockies (CO, WY, MT, ID)

Six Score Rainbows on the Mackenzie River (Oregon)

July 23, 2019by Matthew Dickerson

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 […]

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Features, Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, northern CA)

Hoosier Trout

July 23, 2019by Matthew Dickerson

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 […]

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Central (MN, MI, WI, IN, AR, OK), Features

J.R.R.Tolkien, Hobbits, Food, and Thankfulness

November 21, 2018by Matthew Dickerson

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 […]

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About Me

These pages feature writings, reflections, photographs and other subject matter from Matthew Dickerson, author of: Downstream: Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia (2014), Trout in the Desert: On Fly Fishing Human Habits, and the Cold Waters of the Arid Southwest (2015), A Tale of Three Rivers: of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout (2018) and The Voices or Rivers: Reflections on Places Wild and Almost Wild. David O'Hara, co-author of Downstream has also contributed. [... read more]

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This site is for those who love and care about cold rivers, clean waters, wilderness, and the creatures that live in these places–especially wild trout. It is therefore also about preservation, conservation, and restoration of these important habits, and everything which impacts them or depends upon them. Which is to say everything, since we all live downstream of each other. In writing about rivers and streams, we also write about forests and lakes and oceans.

More often than note, these pages are also about fly fishing, an activity which has not only brought great delight to the authors, but also prompted many times of quiet listening, attentiveness, and aware of what lives above, beside, and beneath the waters where we cast flies.

Some of the material on this site has previous appeared in the Addison Independent in earlier versions. See http://www.addisonindependent.com/

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