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In writing this book, author, naturalist, and educator Steve Ramirez traveled thousands of miles by plane, motor vehicle, boat, and foot. Each chapter includes his fishing with a notable person in the worlds of fishing and conservation. His fishing partners in this book include Bob White, Chris Wood, Kirk Deeter (and many other leaders within Trout Unlimited), Ted Williams of The Native Fish Coalition, Matthew Miller, and John Karges of The Nature Conservancy, and many more. In the course of this journey, Ramirez explores and fishes mountain streams, alpine lakes, National Wild and Scenic Rivers, desert canyons, brackish water estuaries, and the rolling ocean off the coast of Cape Cod. About half of this book was written while traveling through the COVID-19 pandemic and it touches on the lessons that COVID can teach us about nature and human nature. In Casting Onward, the author expands beyond the geographical scope of Casting Forward by fishing for native fish within their original habitats across American. Each story is told in part through the eyes of the people who have lived alongside and come to love, these waters and fish. Woven throughout these adventures are the stories of the people he meets and befriends while pursuing a mutual love of nature and the best of human nature, as the first criterion for finding common ground. This is a hopeful story, in an all-too-often seemingly hopeless time. It is a story of fishing and friendship. It is a story of humanity’s impact on nature, and nature’s impact on humanity.

ISBN-13: 9781493062294

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.

Publication Date: 05-01-2022

Pages: 280

Product Dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

Steve Ramirez is a writer, educator, master naturalist, philosopher, and outdoor adventurer who lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country. He has lived in and traveled across four continents chronicling the unique historical landscapes, human cultures, and natural worlds that are in danger of vanishing. Steve’s stories have been published in various magazines and journals, including but not limited to: Trout, Under Wild Skies, Explore, Texas Sporting Journal, Texas Trophy Hunters, The Houston Literary Review, Cutthroat: Journal of the Arts, and The Pecan Grove Review. He is an avid fly-fisher, hiker, naturalist, hunter, and outdoor educator who lives in a house in the hills, surrounded by trees, in Boerne, Texas.

Table of Contents

Foreword Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited ix

Prologue xv

Chapter 1 First Cast-Longnose Gar, Lower Potomac River, Fletcher's Cove 1

Chapter 2 Striped Bass and Bluefish, North Atlantic, Cape Cod 13

Chapter 3 Northern Pike, Smallmouth Bass, and Muskellunge, St. Croix National Wild and Scenic River 27

Chapter 4 Brook Trout, Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania 39

Chapter 5 Guadalupe Bass, Llano River, Texas 49

Chapter 6 Apache Trout, White Mountains, Arizona 55

Chapter 7 Gila Trout, Gila Wilderness Area, New Mexico 63

Chapter 8 Rio Grande Cutthroat, Pecos Strain, Jack's Creek, New Mexico | Rio Grande Strain, Columbine Creek, New Mexico 75

Chapter 9 Guadalupe Bass, San Marcos River, Texas 87

Chapter 10 Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, Pyramid Lake, Nevada 97

Chapter 11 Guadalupe Bass, Nueces River in the Texas Hill Country 113

Chapter 12 Colorado River Cutthroat Trout, Yampa River Watershed, Northern Colorado 121

Chapter 13 Greenback Cutthroat Trout, Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Northern Colorado 137

Chapter 14 Bear River and Colorado River Cutthroat Trout, East Fork Bear River and Middle Fork Blacks Fork River 149

Chapter 15 Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, Wheeler Creek, Utah | Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout, Raft River Mountains, Utah 163

Chapter 16 Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Middle Fork Salmon River, Dagger Falls, River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho 179

Chapter 17 Bluegill and Other Sunfish, Texas Hill Country 189

Chapter 18 Desert Redband Trout, Owyhee Range, Idaho 197

Chapter 19 Redfish, Texas Gulf Coast 213

Chapter 20 Mixed Feelings-Invasive Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout, Oak Creek, Sedona, Arizona | Gila Trout, East Verde River, Mogollon Rim, Arizona 225

Chapter 21 Just One More Cast-Brook Trout, Headwaters of the Potomac, West Virginia 241

Epilogue-Choosing to Change the Fate of Humanity … and the Fate of the Earth, Moving from the Anthropocene (Age of Humanity) to the Naturaecene (Age of Nature) 253

Acknowledgments 258

Selected Bibliography 259