Rivers Always Reach the Sea: Angling Stories

From the New York Times bestselling author of Saban and Lords of the Fly comes an exquisite collection of angling stories that span the twenty-first century.

The thirty-one pieces in Rivers Always Reach the Sea--essays, as well as profiles of some of the biggest names in angling, including Lefty Kreh and Andy Mill--take the reader from the rainforests of Chile to the windswept tundra of Russia, from the remote mangrove-choked basins of Florida’s Everglades to the congested littoral zone of New York City, and to many places in between.

The quarry includes trout, Atlantic salmon, tarpon, bonefish and striped bass, but the real quest is for something else entirely. Told in a voice described by the novelist, Carl Hiaasen, as ＂funny, wistful, and wonderful,＂ the stories in Rivers Always Reach the Sea keep the focus on the ＂why＂ of the sport of fly fishing, and not the ＂how.＂

Monte Burke is the author of Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon, and the New York Times bestseller, Saban: The Making of a Coach, a biography of Alabama head coach, Nick Saban. He is also the author of 4TH And Goal: One Man’s Quest to Recapture His Dream, which won an Axiom Award for biography, and Sowbelly: The Obsessive Quest for the World Record Largemouth Bass, which was named one of the best books of the year by Sports Illustrated and Amazon, and was chosen for Barnes & Noble’s ＂Discover Great New Writers＂ program. After a 14-year stint as a reporter, staff writer and editor at Forbes, he is now a contributing editor at the magazine. He is also a contributing editor at Garden & Gun and The Drake. Connect with him via Twitter @monteburke, or through monteburke.com.

David DiBenedetto is the editor in chief of Garden & Gun magazine and the former editor of Salt Water Sportsman. His writing has appeared in numerous publications and has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing and Take Me Fishing: 50 Great Writers on their Favorite Sport. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his family.