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Outside of his professional life, Brittenham was a passionate fly-fisher with decades of experience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025

The 71-year-old writer, activist, expert fly-fisher and new grandfather welcomes me into his town home, just 50 steps from Rattlesnake Creek, to discuss what Michael Pietsch, his editor at Little, Brown, calls his “magnum opus.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

Since returning home to Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter, famed fly-fisher, softballer and jogger, has been honing his skills at yet another avocation.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'm sure," said he, laughingly, "Tom Dyke never encouraged you in such sporting-tackle, glorious fly-fisher as he is."

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

The conversation is between Halieus, a fly-fisher; Poietes, a poet; Physicus, a man of science; and Ornither, a sportsman.

From The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World by Tomlinson, Charles