HEADWATERS

Christmas Island. The Russian Arctic. Argentine Patagonia. Japan. Cuba. British Columbia. Dylan Tomine takes us 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 deeper into his beloved steelhead rivers of the Pacific Northwest and the politics of saving them. Tomine celebrates the joy - and pain - of exploration, fatherhood and the comforts of home waters from a vantage point well off the beaten path. Headwaters traces the evolution of a lifelong angler's priorities from fishing to the survival of the fish themselves. It is a book of remarkable obsession, environmental awareness shaped by experience, and hope for the future. HEADWATERS is a collection of stories and essays tracing Dylan Tomine's passion for fly fishing, the adventures inspired by this obsession, his gradual awakening to the destruction of his beloved natural environment and his evolution as an environmental advocate. Along the way Dylan travels around the world, from Russia to Japan to his Pacific Northwest home waters, looking back on a childhood spent on the water and ahead to what the future holds for his own children. HEADWATERS is at once captivating, gritty, authentic, often funny, and ultimately uplifting; an apt book for our times. Dylan Tomine is an ambassador for outdoor clothing company Patagonia, a longtime fly fishing writer and recognized leader in the fly fishing community. His stories and essays have appeared in The Flyfish Journal, The Drake, Fish & Fly, Fly Fisherman, Orion and other publications. His acclaimed book Closer To The Ground, earned National Outdoor Book Awards Honorable Mention in 2013, was recommended by "O" The Oprah Magazine, and received glowing reviews from The Washington Post, Outside, Publishers Weekly, Orion and others. Dylan appears in a number of films and videos, including DamNation and Chrome, and recently produced and appears in the feature-length documentary, Artifishal, which premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival in 2019.