“Book Review: A Cast Away in Montana,” by Michael Garrigan, Hatch Magazine, December 2024
Schulz is a great storyteller, a student of the water, and a damned good writer. If you’re looking for a book that’s not just about fly fishing, but about rivers, dogs, the people we fish with, and what draws us to water, you can’t go wrong with A Cast Away in Montana.
“The Armchair Angler,” by Noah Davis, including a review of A Cast Away in Montana, Anglers Journal, Fall 2024
What Schulz captures is the joy, awe and reality of a first trip to Montana, something that can never be replicated, which might be why he wrote the book: to hold on to that feeling for as long as possible.
“A Cast Away in Montana,” by Glen Blackwood, Michigan Trout, Fall/Winter 2024
A Cast Away in Montana is more than just a fly fishing book. It is a book of passion, exploration, observation, emotions, rivers, and trout—a book whose layers are many and should be peeled back slowly and savored.
“Book Review: A Cast Away in Montana,” by Spencer Durrant, MidCurrent, November 2024
It’s not like any fishing book I’ve read recently. Montana is more personal, more self-aware, and warm than almost anything you’ll encounter in magazines or online. In many ways, it’s fishing writing like it used to be, when we told stories simply for the joy of telling them, instead of selling ad space for waders or thousand-dollar fly rods.
“Keeping Connected in the Off Season,” by Michael Salomone, including a review of A Cast Away in Montana, VailDaily , November 2024
The angling adventure provides the substance for Schulz’s competent prose. His words fall easily off the pages, garnering accolades from readers far beyond the stubby bearded clan. Even in the hands of my mother, a retired university professor, the book holds its worth. She’s not an angler or hunter but a fan of the written word — and now a fan of Schulz.
“Fishing Ghosts,” by Chris Camuto, including a review of A Cast Away in Montana, Gray’s Sporting Journal, October 2024
He is guided through the complex water above Ennis Lake: “We’re in a series of braided channels that provide what must be four times the fishable water you’d see in a more traditional section of a river. The braids spread like arteries and veins, bringing life to the beating heart that is Ennis Lake.” On the Madison and on into the book, Schulz’s sentences capture the more elegant rhythms—the push and pull, the sideways slips and glides—of drift boat travel, as well as the profound stasis of standing on a gravel bar and casting to rising or hidden fish. The languid western angler in him emerges, as do many fine angling scenes.
“Fading Rainbows: A Review of A Cast Away in Montana by Tim Schulz,” by Christopher Schaberg for The Fly Fish Journal, October 2024
In Schulz’s book there are enjoyable meditations on the nature of consequences—Schulz brings a shrewd scientist’s eye to this everyday phenomenon—as well as on his strategy for insomnia: mentally tie flies and see how many you can get done before you doze off. I dig it.
“Exploring Michigan’s Trout-Infested Upper Peninsula with Tim Schulz,” Destination Angler Fly Fishing Podcast, September 2024 (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
“Tim Schulz — A Cast Away in Montana,” The Fly Culture Podcast, September 2024 (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
“A Cast Away in Montana by Tim Schulz,” by Mack Hassler for the U.P. Book Review, August 2024
The vividness of the journey, along with the sense of community among those who do this sort of fishing, who fashion their own lures, and who are always looking to cast themselves farther, makes a very successful book.
America Outdoors Radio, June 2024 (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
“A Cast Away in Montana & Upper Michigan Stories with Tim Schulz,” Fly Fishing Consultant Podcast, May 2024 (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
“Interview With Author Tim Schulz,” BookMarketingBuzzBlog, April 2024
I try to make my writing warm, intimate, humorous, and textured. Regarding the fly fishing component, I relate to the shared experiences anglers are most familiar with while avoiding cliches and forced sentimentality. I set the bar high for angling writers I’d like to emulate: John Voelker, Nick Lyons, and John Gierach, to name a few, although their writing styles are unique and beyond comparison.
“Tim Schulz: Anatomy of a Fishing Season,” Michigan Tech Husky Bites, March 2021 (YouTube recording)
My greatest strength? Patience. I’m really good at sitting on a log or a rock and waiting for a fish to start feeding. I can do it for hours. Most of the big fish I’ve caught have been because of that. My greatest weakness? Patience. I’m really good at sitting on a log or a rock and waiting for a fish to start feeding. I can do it for hours. Most of my fishless days have been because of that.