Travel writer and fly fisherman Arnie Sabatelli will discuss his new essay collection at The American Museum of Fly Fishing. His writing will inspire you to look more fully at the world around you, especially the fish-filled waters covering two-thirds of our planet.

Two-Thirds Water is a collection of fly-fishing essays covering Arnie Sabatelli’s broad and varied lifetime experience of fishing all kinds of waters, salt and freshwater, from remote Adirondack ponds to the Long Island Sound, Bahamian flats, Michigan steelhead rivers, and tiny streams high in the mountains of Mexico.

In these essays, whether he’s praising the raw, muscularity of catching bluefish, enjoying the solitude of hiking into remote places to fish from a canoe, looking at quantum physics to address nuanced dimensions of catching fish with a fly, or using fishing memories to express feelings of personal loss, Arnie reaches for and grasps the mystery and beauty at the heart of fly fishing.

“A vibrant, smart, and essential new voice. These essays are engaging and magical.” — Nick Lyons, author of Spring Creek

The American Museum of Fly Fishing was established in 1968 in Manchester, Vermont, by a group of passionate and enthusiastic anglers who believed that the history of angling was an important part of American culture and tradition. The Museum was created to serve as an institution to research, preserve, and interpret the treasures of angling history.

ARNIE SABATELLI is a writer who has taught writing and literature at the college and high school level for many years. He currently teaches nonfiction writing at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT. His fishing essays have appeared broadly, including in The Flyfish Journal, Fly Fisherman, and Fly Rod and Reel. He has also published short fiction, poetry and academic essays on the works of Ernest Hemingway.