Next Bend Journal

The Next Bend Journal is where we slow down. Stories and reflections on the water, the vise, the fire at the end of the day, and the reasons we keep fishing. This is the reading, not the how-to.

The Longest Day
Around the Fire

The Longest Day

The solstice lands on a Sunday this year. June 21. The longest day - and the whole day has the quality of borrowed time.

Around the FireCamp Chairs and Headlamps

Camp Chairs and Headlamps

Some of the best parts of fly fishing happen after the fishing is over. After the last cast, when the camp chairs come out and the headlamps glow in the dark.

Around the FireThe Beer That Ends The Day

The Beer That Ends The Day

There's a moment at the end of every fishing day I've come to love more than the fishing itself. Not the cast, not the fish. The beer.

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