Black River Dreams is a collection of 16 essays written by Maximilian Werner.  The book is 176 pages long and includes no pictures.  But thats okay, cause you don’t need them.  The author, Maximilian Werner, does an awesome job of painting a picture for you with enough adjectives to make Hemmingway blush- yet they’re not [...]

I drew the line off my fly rod and draped the loose coils in my left hand. I felt the 30 lb, wire leader between my fingers as I grasped the hook in my right. The eye of the fly looked at me as if to say “you better mean business this time.”
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I’m deeply saddened to report that Rusty Gates is no longer with us.
Once in a lifetime there is someone that touches your life in so many ways. Rusty Gates was one of those people. His spirit and tenacity had an affect on everyone involved in environmental causes, from hikers to hunters to the many of [...]

Last week, I was interviewed over the phone by journalist, Morgan Lyle.  The article was printed yesterday in one of my local papers, the Schenectady Daily Gazette.  You can see it at Morgan’s most excellent fly fishing blog, The Fly Line.
With all of the fly fishing websites aaround these days, I have no idea how [...]

There comes a point in every fly tyer’s life that they’ll want, or need, to use epoxy.  Unfortunately, epoxy is oftern frustrating to work with.  You’ve gotta mix it right; you’ve only got a limited amount of time to get it on there, etc.  It’s because of this that several alternatives to epoxy have become [...]

So, if you’ve been reading with any frequency, you know I’ve been working on a secret website project of sorts for about 5 months or so.  Well about 3 months into this project, I was messing around with one of the database thingies and lost everything.  Everything.  Moral of the story- if you call database [...]

This post has been sitting in the drafts pile since early August, so after yesterday’s free magazine post, I figured now was as good a time as any to hit the publish button on this one.
I spoke with Brian O’Keefe the other day about a new project he’s been working on with Todd Moen called [...]

Just click the images below to go to the website for a free copy of the current issue of each magazine, add the digital version to your cart, checkout, download.
I haven’t gone completely through each one yet, but from what I did look at in each-just the pictues- they look like decent publications.

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In case you missed it, the Fall ‘09 issue of Hatches Magazine is making it’s rounds between bathrooms and fly tying benches around the world.  Click here to order your copy today!