This past weekend I spent time camping along the Beaverkill nestled deep
in a fold of the Catskills. With no cell phone service I had the
opportunity to get caught up on my reading in between a little trout
fishing, socializing and relaxing with the family. In the stack of dead
trees that accompanied me was Trout magazine. Trout was fairly high in
the stack, well above the well recognized "how to" periodicals. During
the past few years I've come to have a keener appreciation for the
writers who are closer to the literary end of the spectrum than the
"hook and bullet" end. The Drake, Flyfish Journal and Gray's Fly Fishing
issue (though I feel it's aging out) are my new staples. Trout's in
that class too though that's a fairly recent development.
I first met Kirk Deeter in 2012 shortly after he was announced as editor
of Trout Magazine. Kirk's vision for Trout, the in house magazine of
Trout Unlimited, was to be of such high quality that folks would join TU
just to get the magazine. That sounded awful ambitious.
You can read the rest of this review at Hatch Magazine.
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