Being one with the water

Rivers run through me.

I was born and raised in a city that sits on a bend of the Ohio.

I fished the Wabash when I was a kid, and watched my father help pull a net full of catfish from the Embarras in Illinois when I was too small to help.

I fished the St. Johns, Lopez and the Loxahatchee in Florida. I floated the Suwanee, Santa Fe and the Ichitucknee in the same state.

When I moved west I fell in love with the Yellowstone. From its humble beginnings high in the mountains above Yellowstone Lake to its confluence with the Missouri, the Yellowstone has called to me.

I was part of a group effort...