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: Western Maine
Western Maine (The Headwaters of the Androscoggin)
Acadia National Park (from a Lightweight Canoe)
Matthew Dickerson, May 2018 Note: Although this piece is not about trout or fly fishing, and doesn’t even technically take place take place inside Acadia National Park, it is about […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OF MAY, MUD, AND MOOSE IN MAINE
Matthew Dickerson The first moose was a big bull. It stepped onto the road a hundred yards in front of my car and began to saunter across, without consideration of […]
Holy Water
Holy Water Matthew Dickerson, May 2012 It was late Wednesday afternoon, May 23. I was wading knee deep in a small New England river. All afternoon, caddis flies had been […]
