Monte Burke
Monte Burke is a Garden & Gun contributing editor and the New York Times best-selling author of Saban and Lords of the Fly, among other books. He is also a contributing editor at Forbes and The Drake. He grew up primarily in Alabama and North Carolina and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughters.
Arts & Culture
Focused on (and in) the field, a party animal off of it, the yellow Lab has captivated fans, charmed recruits, and brought a little bit of cheeky mischief to the sidelines
Sporting
In the heart of Patagonia lies a land suspended in time, one teeming with some of the world’s richest—and most improbable—stretches for fly fishing
Arts & Culture
Three decades after the release of the film, a collective story of its making reveals Gump still looms large in the lives of the stars and the locals who helped turn a movie no one wanted into an Oscar-winning smash
collections
“Once you get a couple of these things, you start appreciating the history and the beauty and the engineering”
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
It’s not just the number of national championships—it’s the way he won them
Travel
Whether you’re after fin or feather, find an experience you won’t get stateside at these retreats across the globe
Adventures
Tucked into cool mountain foothills, the sylvan city beckons with a break from Southern heat
interview
Silver screen, small screen, even your music stream—the Houston native has them covered
Sporting
A longtime panhandle fisherman on why the region draws him back year after year
Sporting
The foremost collector of the state’s vintage reels trolls auctions, meets, and antique stores for his quarry
Land & Conservation
There’s been a noticeable decline of the species in Florida Bay and the Keys. A look at why—and what we can do to reverse the trend
Arts & Culture
Every month for a decade, Hody Childress quietly delivered cash to a local pharmacy for those in need. In the wake of his death, strangers have picked up the tab
Sporting
Acclaimed anglers and conservationists Andy Mill and Paul Dixon honored by the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust
Hurricane Ian
What happens when you pack up all your valuables to flee a hurricane—and instead drive straight into the eye of the storm? One man’s harrowing account
Sporting
Many consider permit to be the pinnacle of fly fishing. But it took hitting a personal low before Nathaniel Linville could truly begin his quest to become one of the best permit fishermen alive
Conservation
On the back of a determined West Virginian—and private landowners and government agencies
alike—the vaunted and cherished brook trout just might be making a miracle comeback
Sporting
The latest from Orvis, the Helios 3 Blackout, makes the right kind of waves
Sports
In a state that produces the nation’s most elite high school quarterbacks, all eyes in Texas have been on Quinn Ewers. But the player with the trademark blond mullet and the rocket-launcher arm seems to be one of the few not buying into the hype
Sporting Scene
How an ace Eastern Shore wood-carver crafts his acclaimed birds