Amber Liquid Anglers and Sportsmen

  This year's list is inspired by literary license. Thus, the Two Hearted River. Ernie didn't actually write about the Two Hearted. ...

 Above: a copyright free image from the Art Institute of Chicago.   Part of the social distancing policy for we hermits involves social invi...

  At left, my trout family. Picture courtesy the Lovely Courtney. We make our own way upstream. We look for cooler water. We try to find a p...

  At left, my walleye fishing buddy Mike (takes me into Canada with him when Canada is open)  in front of the Nemo Dark Timber tent we used ...

  Waiting. We spend a lot of time at trout camps waiting. Watching. Thinking. Talking.  Sure we fish; but, for every hour on the stream is ...

  My buddy on the water last Saturday. We fished the Upper Manistee (Deward) during a too bright day. It started well. We waited for shadows...

  The Deward Tract on the Manistee River last weekend. It was a beautiful weekend but the nights were very cold. I slept in my Canadian 0 de...