The 2005 Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Fiction Award

After our Fiction Award committee selected "Tex, Mex and the Amazons" as the 2005 winner of fly-fishing's most prestigious short-story competition, we decided we'd better find out a little bit about the author, Rhett Ashley, of Leaburg, Oregon, since we'd never heard of him before. When we called him, Rhett told us he was 66 years old, and he responded to our resumé request as follows: "When I was 13, I ran away from home on the Potomac River in Virginia and ended up in Appalachia, working for a stone-mason uncle. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.