Mist on the River: An Angler's Quest for Steelhead

Mist on the River chronicles a search for wild steelhead salmon in the remaining wilderness of the Pacific Northwest.

As he says in the prologue to his book, Michael Checchio likes his fly-fishing on big western rivers where there are lots of mountains to look at, and where the steelhead don't come out of a hatchery but are born as nature intended, in the cold gravel of a clean stream. He finds all this and more up in British Columbia on his search for some of the last great runs of wild st...