Headwaters

Dylan Tomine vividly recounts an arc many anglers experience, from passionate beginnings, through diligence and expertise, to enlightenment. – Author and Artist Tom McGuane

Headwaters traces the evolution of a lifelong angler’s priorities from catching fish to the survival of the fish themselves.  From Christmas Island and the Russian Arctic to Argentine Patagonia and Japan, Dylan Tomine traipses to the far reaches of the planet in search of fish and adventure, with keen insight, a strong stomach and plenty of laughs along the way. Closer to home, he wades deeply into his beloved steelhead rivers of the Pacific Northwest and the politics of saving them. This is a book of remarkable obsession, environmental awareness shaped by experience, and hope for the future.

The very best in angling literature, with prose that is, at various times, hilarious, profound, and mournful. --Monte Burke, author of Saban and Lords of the Fly

A rare opportunity to glimpse the essential but often hard-to-pin-down reason so many of us return again and again to cast our hope into the water. – Callan Wink, author, Dog Run Moon and August

“What is fly fishing? Everything.” A spirited defense of that thesis. – Kirkus Reviews