Fish Tales
Small Stream
With apologies to John Mellencamp. Well, I was born in a small stream And I can breathe in a small stream Gonna die in a small stream And that’s probably where they’ll bury me
A Cast Away in Montana
A Cast Away in Montana: Trailers
Written by Tim Schulz.Illustrations by Bob White. Foreword by Jerry Dennis. A Cast Away in Montana is the captivating story of a passionate angler’s first trip to Montana. Through Tim Schulz’s humorous, insightful, and reflective storytelling, readers not only discover Read more…
Fish Tales
Too Valuable
Lee Wulff famously said, “A gamefish is too valuable to be caught only once.” Reasonable people can—and do—debate the scope of this credo, and I suspect Lee did too. But if that script was written for a particular scene, it Read more…
A Cast Away in Montana
Grayling
“What I have asked you to imagine is the story of Michigan’s grayling. I often fish the Otter River, where Walter Erickson caught the last of these fish in 1934. There are still more deer than people along this river Read more…
Fish Tales
The X Caddis
Many people mistakenly believe the X Caddis is a pattern invented by Craig Mathews and John Juracek. Instead, Craig’s wife, Jackie, devised the idea and tied the first pattern for Craig and John while working on something to imitate an Read more…
Fish Tales
A Tale of Two Scenes
Spend enough time in the wild, and sooner or later, you’ll get a front-row seat in the grand theater of life and death. In one scene, a deer’s skull, spine, and matted hair lie still in a Michigan forest—decaying remnants Read more…
Fish Tales
Tight Lines
Want to catch a smallmouth bass that is so strong you might hook it in Wisconsin and land it in Michigan? Want to see a fish sip your popper from the surface, then fight like a spurred Brahma bull? Want Read more…
Fish Tales
Keep ’em wet
What angler doesn’t love a memento of the fish of a lifetime or maybe just the fish of the day? But if you plan to release that fish, you should consider its lifetime, not just yours. Many people have a Read more…
