Matter of Style: Fly Fishing into the Winds of Change

Leaving behind a job as a public school teacher, acclaimed writer Scott Sadil (rhymes with cradle)began building Tamalita, a lug-rigged beach yawl suitable for exploring the remote tidewaters of Baja California’s Magdalena Bay. Before he could finish planking his new boat, however, Sadil received an email from Gray’s Sporting Journal, for the past fifty years America’s preeminent hunting and fishing magazine. Gray’s needed a writer of Sadil’s stature to take over the duties of their angling...