Writing About Fishing

Henry Hughes is a regular contributor to Anglers Journal, a premier magazine devoted to the culture of fishing. His work includes poems about growing up on Long Island, essays on artists and fillet queens, as well as adventurous accounts of dropping bait to big sturgeon in urban Portland, fly-fishing for small trout in the Idaho wilderness, and negotiating the winds and guides of Iceland. “Hughes writes about fishing with passion, insight, humor and wisdom,” responded one reader. “His words swim true.”

No work of fly fishing literature has enjoyed more popular, critical and commercial success than Norman Maclean’s novella, A River Runs Through It, and the accompanying illustrations tell us a great deal about how readers and artists responded to the story. A River Runs Through It has been presented in three distinct editions: the first edition, “The Little Blue Book” (1976), designed and illustrated by Robert Williams; “The Picture Book” (1983) with photographs by Joel Snyder; and The Pennyroyal Edition (1989), designed and illustrated by Barry Moser. The art of Snyder and Moser, in particular, steered the semiautobiographical novella toward more realistic, nonfiction representations; and, as the treatment of portraits will show, Norman Maclean, himself, became the celebrated subject of the text.

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