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Category Archives: Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, northern CA)

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

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)

Trinity River Steelhead, and a Return to the Trinity National Forest

September 8, 2018by Matthew Dickerson

Mist clung to the steep hillsides closing us in on all sides. From time to time, it cleared enough to offer glimpses of higher slopes dominated by tall pines. For […]

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National Parks, Forests, and Refuges, Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, northern CA)
photo of a steelhead

Steelhead Fishing and the Olympics

September 8, 2018by Matthew Dickerson

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 […]

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Features, National Parks, Forests, and Refuges, Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, northern CA)

Drifting the Deschutes: Trout in a High Mountain Desert

March 2, 2016by Matthew Dickerson

October, 2015 When I think of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, I usually have in mind more coastal areas. All but one of my previous visits to Washington or Oregon […]

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

WASHING OUT AND RINSING DOWN: STEELHEAD IN NW OREGON

May 9, 2015by Matthew Dickerson

Earlier this month I spent a long weekend in Oregon. Oregon is deservedly famous for at least two things. One is craft breweries. According to 2013 Brewers Association statistics, Oregon […]

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

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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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