The Habits of Trout (and Other Unsolved Mysteries)

Praise for the book:

Jerry Dennis, Author of The River Home and A Place on the Water

Tim Schulz is an excellent angler, a fine man, and he’s put together a delightful collection of essays and yarns. They’re clear-headed, big-hearted, witty, smart, honest, and good-natured—all the qualities I admire most in writings about fishing.

Jerry Kustich, Author of Around the Next Bend, A Wisp in the Wind, and At the River’s Edge

When tradition, friendship, family and fly-fishing all flow together, the result can be many memories that last a lifetime. In The Habits of Trout Tim Schulz’s stories and essays capture the very essence of his fly-fishing remembrances with words that touch the heart and inspire the soul. Schulz’s well-written pieces offer a glimpse into a northern Michigan way of life—a lifestyle very much worth sharing.

Bob White, Artist and Author of The Classic Sporting Art of Bob White

You know a book is good when you decide to read just a chapter or two, and then find yourself lost in its depths. You know it’s really good when, while you’re reading it, you’re making mental notes about which of your fishing bud- dies needs a copy. Tim Schulz tells a fine story. The voice in his words is clear and bright, like a particularly good day on the water.

James McCullough, Author of Voelker’s Pond and Echoes

Tim Schulz dedicates his energies to rivers and trout in a manner beyond ad- diction, and his first collection of stories epitomizes the light-hearted devotion with which he explores the habitats of trout and the lore of Michigan’s wild Upper Peninsula.

Hatch Magazine

There are some true gems in The Habits of Trout, passages that will make even the most jaded angler grin or nod his (or her) head in agreement and that will inevitably make other fly fishing writers green with envy in response to such gorgeous word-smithing.

Midcurrent

Schulz’s generous writing spins experience on the water into larger life lessons of love, family, and friends. It is a thoughtful and enjoyable collection of essays set in Michigan’s wild Upper Peninsula.

Preface for The Habits of Trout

Blog Posts and Essays

It’s About Time

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Small Stream Sisu

Steelhead are not native to Lake Superior.  They have, however, made their homes in the great lake and its tributaries since the late 1800’s, and in the minds of many local anglers, this fabricated fishery Read more…

Tawny Water

I feel her flow against me in the half lightA quarter moon shines down on my eyesGuitars and old friends in the cabin But I wait for one more trout to riseI don’t know why Read more…

The Musky Maxims

During my first night at Legacy Lodge in Winter, Wisconsin, an oracle appeared in my dreams. “You will catch one musky—and only one musky—sometime over the next three days, but the day and time will Read more…

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