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David A. Van Wie
Oct 21, 20216 min read
REVISITING Corey Ford and The Boys
Last weekend was a celebration of the 70th anniversary of Dartmouth Rugby. Alumni of all generations gathered at the Corey Ford Rugby...
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David A. Van Wie
Jan 11, 20191 min read
Manuscript Submitted
NEWS FLASH - Lyme, NH - I just submitted the completed manuscript for Storied Waters to my publisher, Stackpole Books. The manuscript is...
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David A. Van Wie
Sep 4, 20185 min read
River Road
It’s fitting that the guy who spent six weeks last year driving over 5000 miles on the Storied Waters fly-fishing and literary odyssey...
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David A. Van Wie
Mar 27, 20183 min read
From Bread Loaf to Bestseller? We'll See!
I have some great news to share! First, I have a contract with Stackpole Books, a leading publisher of fly fishing and fly tying titles,...
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David A. Van Wie
Mar 21, 20183 min read
Points North: The Final Word on Kingdom County
Jim and Charlie Kinneson are getting on in years. But Charlie, now 80, can still lift and carry the Old Town canoe on his shoulders...
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David A. Van Wie
Oct 29, 20173 min read
A Dozen Funky Fly Names
Fishing flies are literally examples of art imitating life. In our never-ending quest to fool fish into thinking that an artificial fly...
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David A. Van Wie
Oct 5, 20178 min read
A Reader's Guide To Storied Waters
Fans of the Storied Waters odyssey may want to catch up on some of the books and authors that I featured during my trip. As the weather...
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David A. Van Wie
Aug 26, 20173 min read
Walking To Charlottesville
I haven’t read all of Howard Frank Mosher’s novels yet, but so far the books I have read all include trout fishing. There isn’t much...
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David A. Van Wie
Jul 19, 20177 min read
Epilogue - The Storied Waters Chronicle
“Fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion… trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed...
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David A. Van Wie
Jul 1, 20179 min read
Dud Dean and a Dream Come True
During the night in Jim Lepage's camp on Caribou Lake, I dreamed of trout fishing, just as Thoreau had at Abol Stream. This was no...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 30, 20179 min read
Kennebago to Katahdin: Back in Thoreau Country
Henry David Thoreau was badass. Many people think of philosophers, naturalists and social activists as what, shall we say, soft? But...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 30, 201710 min read
I Took To The Woods
I am not sure what I expected, but certainly not this. When I was planning my #StoriedWaters trip, I included the Rapid River in Maine,...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 27, 20177 min read
they shake the mountains when they dance
I’ve never actually seen one of the Boys dance at the Dartmouth College Grant, except maybe a little victory jig when someone lands a big...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 14, 20176 min read
The Kingdom River
In his critically-acclaimed book, Vermont River, author and fly-fisherman W.D. Wetherell never tells us exactly which river he is writing...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 13, 20178 min read
My Homerian Odyssey
My Storied Waters journey has only been four weeks so far, not ten years. Still, like Homer's Odysseus, I have seen some fantastic...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 9, 20176 min read
Grackles Unlimited
When mayflies are hatching, it’s not just the trout that take notice. Swallows (during the day) and bats (at dusk) divebomb from above...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 6, 20174 min read
The Trout Also Rises
It has been a cool, wet spring in northern Michigan. The rivers have been running high, and the bug hatches are off by about a week or...
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David A. Van Wie
Jun 2, 20176 min read
Bourbon Out Of An Old Tin Cup
I felt like I had walked onto the pages of Trout Magic. There I was- casting into the fabled Frenchman’s Pond under the friendly guidance...
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David A. Van Wie
May 31, 20174 min read
Amazing Grace
This whole trip is Gracie's doing. Last year, when we were preparing to publish The Confluence, I had to get permission to reprint the...
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David A. Van Wie
May 29, 20175 min read
Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin
Everyone has a hero, or so we say. My heroes are not your typical war or sports heroes, nor people who performed some superhuman or super...
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