Everyone has fishing stories: glory days, big hatches, and secret spots. But eventually, the photos from those trips all start to look the same—big smiles while holding a fish close to the lens. Maybe you’re wearing a different hat or new sunglasses, but otherwise, it’s just another fish in a net.
What makes these trips truly memorable, we realized, aren’t the stories about the fishing. It’s the stories around the fishing. Anyone can tell a tale about the 28-inch rainbow they landed on a size 22 BWO.
But what about the mangy cat with the broken back that walked on its front legs while its atrophied hind legs swiveled like a pendulum? That is the story we tell when we talk about the Miracle Mile trip in Wyoming.
Or the time we fished until dark and John caught a bat on a backcast? Its screeching attracted dozens of other bats, all circling as we dared each other to remove the hook—until someone finally found a glove and held on while Chris grabbed the forceps.
We’re tired of looking at pictures of fish. We want to hear the stories from the trip—the moments that actually make it stick.
This is a platform to tell those stories and connect with others who enjoy the process as much as the outcome. Give us the real stories from your trips, the campfire stuff, and let us know if you relate to ours.
Wader Writings.
Fishing stories actually worth sharing
Yea, I got that
The gear we like, the flies we throw, the things we consume.
Fishing for Stories
Feel free to share your stories of adventures that are also worth repeating.
The Suite
Our band of misfits. Lovable losers, no-account boozers, and full on honky-tonk river rats.
The Hoss. CEO. Head of the pack.
If it’s for fishing, he has one. If it is swimming, he will catch it. If it is worth talking about, he will share it. Master story teller and historian. He has the perspective to see through the water and into the sole of the river.
The Mead. CMO. Hydration superstar.
On the river and off, he handles the libations and our library of stories. With a elephant’s memory and the wit to go with it, he keeps the tails going. Managing the visual guidelines and the physical flylines is his special talent.
Banksy. CFO. Head of debt.
Calm, cool, and collections. Manages the water and navigating boulders with the same ease of a P&L statement. Always up for an adventure and the opportunity to explore a new stream, he manages the stats and records the takes.
Silver. The Curiosity cat.
Half blind and half crazy, but up for a challenge. He rolls by the creed of “it’s better to be lucky than good…” and he is lucky. An instigator and trouble maker, but a lover of all things wet and wild.
The DJ. Salt water dreaming.
Not known as the DJ for his taste in music, but possibly for the distant journeys he takes to cast into the wind. A story teller and a movie maker, spinning the narratives into a new reality.
Markesman. Only on top.
Dry flies or no flies. He has a way to get most any fish to rise, a master of the aerial line ballet that convinces even the most finicky of fish to take a bite. The ninja of a stream, in and out, before one even knows he was there.