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. […]
Category Archives: Features
Acadia National Park: Of Salters, Alewives, and Estuaries
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 […]
Brown Bears (and Trout and Salmon Eggs) in Katmai National Park
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 […]
BOOK RELEASE! “A Tale of Three Rivers”
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 […]
Steelhead Fishing and the Olympics
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 […]
Excerpt from “Glacier National Park: A Four-Part Series”
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 […]
Seven Nights in the Wind River Range
Seven Nights in the Wind River Range: Visiting the Popo Agie Wilderness of the Shoshone National Forest, and Catching Cutthroat Trout and Brook Trout by the Score Matthew Dickerson July […]
Wyoming’s Wild and Native Trout
A Mess of Wild Brook Trout: Reflections on Native, Wild, and Invasive Trout of Wyoming, especially the Shoshone National Forest including the South Fork of the Little Wind River in […]
Wild Wyoming Cutthroat (in the Bridger-Teton National Forest)
Wild Wyoming Cutthroat (in the Bridger-Teton National Forest) Matthew Dickerson. July, 2016. (Originally appearing in the Addison Independent) I’d been in Wyoming six days with barely a chance to wet […]
The Balm of Brook Trout
The Balm of Brook Trout Matthew Dickerson. June, 2016. (Reprinted from the Addison Independent) It began with a trip to a river I have been fishing since I was thirteen […]