The 2018 Izaak Walton Award Honoring Rachel Finn

About the HonoreeRachel truly embodies Walton’s ideal of the “compleat” angler.…


The 2019 Izaak Walton Award Honoring Tom Rosenbauer

About the Honoreeby Paul Schullery The breadth and depth of Tom Rosenbauer’s…


The 2020 Izaak Walton Award Honoring Flip Pallot

Flip Pallot is often referred to as a total outdoorsman, which is most…


Vernon S. “Pete” Hidy: The Chronology of a Reluctant Fishing Icon

By Lance Hidy Pete Hidy, ca. 1972. Photograph by Elaine Hidy. Hidy…


How Merriweather Lewis's Cutthroat Trout Sealed Custer's Fate at the Little Bighorn

By Richard Lessner Trout fishing was an important part of European settlement…


The 2017 Heritage Award Honoring Tom McGuane

About the Honoree Tom McGuane has built an impressive literary…


W.B. Yeats and the Fly

By Gordon M. WickstromPOETRY, IT HAS BEEN SAID, is the most esoteric of the…


H. M. Bateman: Cartoonist Extraordinaire and Fisherman for Life

BY JAMES D. HECKMAN   The Last Trout. From the Tatler, c.…