Author: moldychum
“It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, but it’s like a trip to Disneyland. You get excited about riding the Matterhorn, and then, when it’s over, you realize you wasted all that time in line for a minute and a half upside down and the chance to puke.” –Murphy Brown Today marks the end of a long creative decline for this platform. In the beginning, many lessons were learned, the main one being that quality endeavors take time—time borrowed from family life, career, and hobbies. Often, the “brightest” ideas come out in the dead of night, under the illusion that…
Ed Sozinho is an award-winning commercial photographer and director with a keen eye for outdoor lifestyle, portraiture, and architectural photography. Ed’s work is about more than capturing moments; it’s about creating an experience, bringing the viewer into the center of the scene. Originally an award-winning architect, Ed’s journey into photography was fueled by a childhood dream and his deep love of design and the great outdoors. This unique blend of skills has carved her niche, leading to collaborations with outdoor brands, various clients in the architecture industry, and conservation groups. Beyond his camera, Ed is also a world-class fly caster…
From the folks at Sage: It is with a heavy heart that we share the passing of Don Green, our legendary Sage founder. In many ways, Don was a man of great integrity, a passionate angler, and a modern fly rod design pioneer. Don’s influence on fly rod performance extends well before Sage, since the 1950s – his innovation with the graphite material changed fly rod design forever. Through his awards, Don has remained humble, never seeking the spotlight, driven by the simple goal of making the best casting rods for anglers around the world. He empowered those in the…
; Hugh Falkus was a British writer, filmmaker, presenter, World War II pilot, and angler. In a highly varied career, he is perhaps best known for his successful books on angling, notably salmon and sea trout fishing; however, he is also a well-known filmmaker and broadcaster for the BBC. According to his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Hugh caught his first fish when he was four, learned to shoot when he was six, and became an expert helmsman by the age of fifteen. By eighteen, he had learned to fly; at twenty, he became a pilot in…
Before our friend Russ Miller landed in the Umpqua, he was trading in the Fishpond and wrote this appeal for fishermen to take action to help save the Thompson River. Since then, the mighty Thompson has become little more than a shadow of its former self and a lesson in what happens when you don’t fight for the last good spots. We all throw around the words “last cast” to close out a trip or our day on the river, but this is now the last cast for wild steelhead on the Thompson River. Almost two years ago to the…