As close as I could reckon it was 16 years since I’d been to Virginia. That’s when I went back to move my mother to Texas, where she’d be closer to my sister. Moving Mom pretty much finished off any ...

There’s an old joke that asks, “What does a fish say when it swims into a wall?” “Dam.” For more than 80 years, the dam spanning the river at the Rapidan Mill has blocked the migration upstream of any ...

As we all watched news video of Rapidan Dam being rendered inoperable by recent torrential rains, we were left wondering: “So what should we do now?” Much of the news has focused on the spectacle of ...

For more than 80 years, the dam spanning the river at the Rapidan Mill has blocked the migration of any number of freshwater and anadromous fish seeking to spawn upstream. That’s why a group of local, ...

I sat next to Matt Supinski, the respected Great Lakes steelhead and salmon guide, in the Author’s booth at the Edison, N.J., Fly Fishing Show. We exchanged the normal pleasantries about the guide ...