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[01 Tom Darling]
Tom Darling is a British novelist and journalist. His most recent novel, Summer, was published by Little, Brown and Company and his journalism has appeared in various newspapers and magazines, from The Independent in the United Kingdom to Gray’s Sporting Journal in the United States. He has a master’s from Trinity College Dublin, and for over a decade Ireland has been his home. Before that, while living in his native England, he worked as a farmhand and forester. He caught his first Atlantic salmon in Scotland when he was 9 years old (it was almost as big as he was) and he’s been chasing fish of all kinds ever since.
[02 Matt Lewis]
Matt Lewis is a fisheries scientist, a college professor and the national vice chair-south for Native Fish Coalition. Lewis utilizes the pursuit of redeye bass to educate anglers on watershed-level conservation by combining his experience in the field of genetics with his passion for native fish to increase our knowledge of the conservation challenges facing redeye bass. He wrote Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters, and is currently finishing up his second book, a flyfishing guide to Alabama. In addition to many scientific journal articles, Matt’s writing has appeared in American Fly Fishing, Backcountry Journal, Bass Angler Magazine and others.
[03 Blaine Peetso]
Blaine Peetso lives and writes in the Peace Country of northwestern Alberta, where he spends most of his time following rivers, chasing dogs and neglecting responsibilities. He’s a working-class aesthete, a discount beer connoisseur and a horrific procrastinator whose work has appeared in The Drake Magazine and in the Mouthful of Feathers anthology.
[04 Matt Smythe]
Matt Smythe is a chief water treatment specialist in western New York. His prior vocations include senior staff writer for Free Range American and Coffee or Die, communications director for the American Fly Fishing Trade Association, freelance creative director for several ad agencies, and autopsy specialist at the now-defunct Genesee Hospital. His book of poetry, Revision of a Man, came out in 2022, and he has had stories, essays and poetry published in The Flyfish Journal, The Drake Magazine, Southern Culture on the Fly, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and numerous anthologies and literary journals. You can keep up with him on his Substack, “Glorious Mayhem.”
[05 Håvard Stubø]
Håvard Stubø is a jazz guitarist and flyfisher from Narvik, Norway. With nine albums under his belt, Stubø’s music has taken him around the world, and he’s made the most of every opportunity to cast the fly rod along the road. Stubø has a master’s degree in performing jazz from the Norwegian Academy of Music and he has worked with many of Scandinavia’s leading musicians. Growing up in Narvik, he started flyfishing at an early age. Since then, he has spent all his summers chasing brown trout and arctic char under the midnight sun. Together with Rolf Nylinder, Jazz & Fly Fishing and others, he has made numerous flyfishing videos. He lives in Narvik with his wife and two sons.
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