Dylan Tomine
Dylan Tomine is a Patagonia ambassador, fisherman, producer of the film Artifishal, and author of Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family鈥檚 Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table. He lives with his kids and their furry, four-legged buddy Halo on an island in Puget Sound.
An excerpt from Dylan Tomine鈥檚 Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession, and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman proves he was born to fish and born to write.
欧博会员入口 are killing what we love. The vast system of hatcheries and open-water fish farms we鈥檝e built is an expression of our affection for cold-water fish鈥攁s food, as recreation, as commercial resource. And yet, despite our best intentions, these human-engineered attempts to make up for resource extraction, development and dam building鈥攖o somehow do better than…
Through the years I鈥檝e talked to Bruce Hill on the phone more times than I can count, often at odd hours, about subjects big and small. Recipes for teriyaki sauce and salmon caviar. Conservation campaign strategies. Guitar techniques. Family. Personal issues and challenges. For so many reasons it鈥檚 been a steady comfort in my life…
Teaching your kids to fish is smart. Having Yvon Chouinard teach your kids to fish is genius.
Lelu Island and the adjacent underwater region known as Flora Bank lie at the mouth of the Skeena River, one of North America鈥檚 great salmon superhighways. Flora Bank contains the highest abundances (25 times more) of juvenile salmon compared with all other sampled habitat in the Skeena River estuary. It is considered the most critical…
Both of my kids love their science classes in school, and Skyla often mentions wanting to be a marine biologist when she grows up. So when the field biologists from the聽Wild Fish Conservancy聽invited us to participate in some beach-seine sampling, as part of their project to assess juvenile salmon habitat around Puget Sound, we jumped…
President Obama鈥檚 recent protection of Bristol Bay from oil and gas exploration may feel like a victory for fish and the environment, but I think it鈥檚 really about time and money. Which in this case, is just as good. Here鈥檚 why: Oil and gas reserves, as we know, are limited by however much is already…
The kids and I decided to squeeze in one last, close-to-home, weekday excursion before school started, so we headed over to the newly dam-free Elwha River for a little float. The last piece of the upper dam was removed last week, so it seemed like a good time to go see what had changed since…
Before reading the excerpt, see what Patagonia’s founder, Yvon Chouinard, has to say about Closer to the Ground. A note from the publisher: Why I love this book Dylan Tomine鈥檚 Closer to the Ground is a lot more than your usual tribute to local food or to a local sense of place, or how to…
Patagonia Fly Fishing Ambassador, Dylan Tomine, brings us today’s post – an update on the current state of the seafood industry as seen from a seat at the 9th Annual Seafood Summit in Vancouver. He attended this year’s Seafood Summit, along with Yvon Chouinard, who provided the gathering’s keynote address. Here are Dylan’s observations from…
