Hey man –
I got an English degree in college and used to help my friend Dewey Hildebrand out with a defunct website called Fly Fishing Today. Some of the guys here will remember that. One day we decided we needed some content besides a forum, so we both wrote a few articles. One of mine happened to be on a topic which was being fact-checked by Phil Monahan, then editor for American Angler magazine. Phil reached out to me through an old school email and asked if I’d be interested in writing for him a little bit. I jumped on that, and I haven’t really stopped writing since.
Incidentally this site was created when Fly Fishing Today’s servers got hacked and Dewey decided to let it go. So in a sense The Itinerant Angler is is a cousin of that site (which itself was a cousin of the old Flyfish.com in much the same way).
Zach