
Toast to a Bygone Bar
Donkey’s Bar was an outpost watering hole en route to great fishing

Donkey’s Bar was an outpost watering hole en route to great fishing



Six writers share their stories from the rugged, intoxicating landscape

The Devils River wends through the badlands of southwest Texas, unforgiving territory and the backdrop for these paddlers on a four-day quest for smallmouth and largemouth bass.

The bite for three hours was as hot as it gets for three anglers fishing a seamount 75 miles off Costa Rica.

Climbing mountains for fish is a spiritual endeavor for the author, whose parents pointed him toward a fuller way of life on Montana’s Northern Cheyenne reservation.

A longtime guide’s love letter to Montana, where rivers are deep with fishing options and the field of play is as wide as the eye can see.

A father-son relationship is strengthened during a fishing trip to New Zealand, as the young man prepares to leave home and the elder contemplates a new phase in their lives.

Two guides embark on a “Jungle Creek” expedition in the southwest Alaska bush before their summer work season begins. Their holy grail is an untouched rainbow fishery.

Donkey’s Bar was an outpost watering hole en route to great fishing

The lure of ever-bigger trout pulls anglers south.

The revitalizing rigors of fishing off the grid

Six writers share their stories from the rugged, intoxicating landscape

The Devils River wends through the badlands of southwest Texas, unforgiving territory and the backdrop for these paddlers on a four-day quest for smallmouth and largemouth bass.

The bite for three hours was as hot as it gets for three anglers fishing a seamount 75 miles off Costa Rica.

Climbing mountains for fish is a spiritual endeavor for the author, whose parents pointed him toward a fuller way of life on Montana’s Northern Cheyenne reservation.

A longtime guide’s love letter to Montana, where rivers are deep with fishing options and the field of play is as wide as the eye can see.

A father-son relationship is strengthened during a fishing trip to New Zealand, as the young man prepares to leave home and the elder contemplates a new phase in their lives.

Two guides embark on a “Jungle Creek” expedition in the southwest Alaska bush before their summer work season begins. Their holy grail is an untouched rainbow fishery.