After getting off the Yellow Breeches at 6:30 on Saturday, I drove only a couple hours before I was ready for dinner and a good night’s...

Yellow Breeches, Full of stitches, Mammy sewed the buttons on. Daddy kicked me out of bed For sleeping with the breeches on. The source...

Lou Zambello and I had been waiting for the sulfur hatch to start, but it was now after 8:00, so we were wondering if the hatch would...

If Pennsylvania is the bedrock of American fly fishing, that bedrock is folded and wrinkled like the fishing clothes stuffed into my...

The Beaverkill earned its well-deserved fame during the railroad era, when the fabled Ontario & Western (O&W) Railway ran from New York...

While making final plans for the Storied Waters tour, I was joking with friends that I had to be prepared for six weeks of bad timing....

On Monday, I gave a talk about the Storied Waters tour at Orvis headquarters in Arlington, Vermont to about 25 Orvis associates. Nearly...

After launching the Storied Water tour at Walden Pond, where Thoreau "lived deliberately" in 1845, I moved on to Manchester, Vermont...

For those who took my last post seriously, I'm sorry I caused you heartache. No, the Storied Waters Tour is not postponed until February....

NEW GLOUCESTER- Just hours after a festive send-off party yesterday, reality came crashing down on David Van Wie, forcing him to...

What does one pack for a six-week fly-fishing and writing excursion? Good question. I do most of my fishing in the remote backcountry...

My grandfather was a fly-fisherman. Born in 1875, Grampa Van Wie died in 1960 when I was three years old, so I don’t remember him at all....

I'm no expert on the history of fly-fishing, nor on fishing literature or nature writing. I am certainly an interested, passionate...

40 days and 40 nights. That is approximately how long my Storied Waters trip will be. Let's hope that I have better weather than Noah. My...

Walden Pond is my first stop on the Storied Waters tour. I have yet to find any evidence that Henry David Thoreau fly-fished. In Walden,...

Opening Day of fishing is just around the corner. Here in Maine, the first day of “open water” fishing is April 1. Note that this is...

My list of authors and books to read for The Storied Water Tour keeps growing and growing. Like Jack’s beanstalk, my pile of books will...

The wooden screen door slammed as Guy strolled out to his car to fetch the book and slammed again a moment later as he came back into the...