Celebrating the essence of being “out there.”

The following is the winning entry in the creative writing project of English 10 at Fort Atkinson High School. The winner was Joshua Fritzsche, 15, of Fort Atkinson; his essay is titled “The Beast Beneath.”
The project was created by Matt Noll, teacher of English 10, and Len Harris, a fishing guide from Richland Center. Students [...]

By James Olin Desonier
(Editor’s Note: The following was written by Desonier, a south Louisiana native, when he was 15, as an assignment for his writing class at the Magnum School in Shreveport. Today he is married and living and working in St. Croix, and they are expecting their first child.)
Although five o’clock in the morning [...]

By Roger Emile Stouff
Havilah Babcock, an outdoors writer and Professor of English at the University of South Carolina during the first half of 20th century said his addictions afield only once landed him in trouble.

By Richard Taylor
Time is veiled, dark night and darker day
Looking back, fleeting images scurry
Nothings revealed, truth and truer still
One can only see through a pale glass.

By Len Harris, Jr.
Lenny Harris was a family man with five daughters and one son. He loved the outdoors and though his daughters showed no interest in learning the ways of a woodsman, Lenny was blessed with an anxious pupil in his son, “Len Jr.”

Capt. Gary Henderson
(This is the first edition of a regular column by Far & Away associate editor Gary Henderson, of Florida, centering around the people, happenings and other events working in a fly shop.)

Many years of guiding on our beautiful, pristine flats on the east coast of central Florida; months spent searching the surface [...]

By Adam Parker
The Brazos River is, in my opinion, the best river in Texas.  It may be rivaled in beauty by the Guadalupe and it tributaries, and it is certainly rivaled in size by the Rio Grande, but to me it has meant Home for the last ten years of my life.