Why We Fish

Words to live by: an ode to a river by the estimable writer Roderick Haig-Brown, spoken by Mel Krieger.

Words to live by: an ode to a river by the estimable writer Roderick Haig-Brown, spoken by Mel Krieger.

Big, beautiful Dolly Vardens, a remote river, gin-clear water and great fishing highlight this video.

Dick Goin’s long battle to restore salmon to Washington’s Elwha River is the subject of the recently released full-length film The Memory of Fish

Jeremy Wade of River Monsters wrestles with a 100-plus-pound Nile perch in a swift river in Africa’s Rift Valley

Contradictory worldviews collide along a river in Montana, where a guide wrestles with heady questions of conservation, ethics and hypocrisy.

A high-flying marlin sails into the cockpit of a sportfishing boat, leaving the crew but a moment to duck for cover.

Wilderness Fishing