Headwaters
The Adventures, Obsession and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman

Definitely informative and a lovely anthology about fishing. The individual stories were good but you can tell they were meant to be read individually, taken together they were a little formulaic. I did appreciate the information on commercial hatcheries! Good not great.......more

While I loved Tomine's fishing adventures and especially the personal family snippets, I also enjoyed his steelhead politics to a point. After awhile those caused my brain to become "glassy eyed" ... in the end, it was just too much although I thoroughly agree with his thoughts on fish farms, ag pol......more

A series of essays by Patagonia fly-fishing ambassador -- from reminiscences of fishing with his dad to stories about fishing in exotic places to musings on the loss of the steelhead population in the Pacific Northwest. Tomine's writing is engaging and entertaining, the stories range from humorous t......more

This book is an excellent combination of sobering and important information about fish survival on this planet with irreverent (and at times horrifying) anecdotes poking fun at himself and other fishing addicts. He had me at the first paragraph. I especially liked the short anecdotes between chapter......more

Time seems to disappear when I am fly fishing and the same was true when I read Headwaters by Dylan Tomine. His writing brought me to the many areas of the world I have only dreamed of fishing, exquisitely capturing all the joys and frustrations one encounters engaging in this religion. I must menti......more