1994
Pete Fromm, “Home Before Dark”
Finalists:
Scott Waldie, “Take Two”
Mallory Burton, “The Virtual Angler”
Kent Cowgill, “Day of Mourning”
Seth Norman, “Amazing Grace & a Caddis Case”
David S. Warren, “Doc Howe”
1995
E. Donnall Thomas, “Ephemerella”
1996
Harry Humes, “Ghost Pain”
Finalist:
Joel Parkmann, “Uncle Sergei’s Madness”
1997
Gary Whitehead, “For Keeps”
Finalists:
Peter Fong, “Letter from Yellowstone”
Kent Cowgill, “Spanish Fly”
Seth Norman, “Hobard’s Gate”
Thomas McIntyre, “Greenwell’s Glory”
1998
Seth Norman, “Edith’s Rule”
Finalists:
T. Felton Harrison, “An Afternoon on Cape San Blass”
David S. Warren, “Looking for Charlie’s Hat”
Pete Fromm, “Blood Knot”
1999, 2000
No award given
2001
Kate Small, “Lateral Lines”
2002
Richard Chiappone, “Opening Day”
2003
Keith McCafferty, “Autumn Hope”
Runner-up:
Lyman Yee, “The Headlock Manifesto”
2004
Bil Monan, “The Surrender”
2005
Rhett Ashley, “Tex, Mex, and the Amazons”
Runner-up:
E. Donnall Thomas Jr., “Fortune Cookie”
2006
No award given
2007
Jeff Day, “In Hemingway’s Meadow”
Finalists:
Donald J. Goodman, “Lives of Fly Rods”
Josh Greenberg, “Shake and Float”
Michael Baughman, “Time to Kill”
2008
Michael Doherty, “The Shining Path”
Second place:
Maximilian Werner, “Angler’s Ball”
2009
Pete Fromm, “The Land Beyond Maps”
Second place:
R. C. Hooker, “The Secret Life of Walter Troutty”
2010
Kent Cowgill, “Two Men in a Museum”
Second place:
John Larison, “A Way Home”
Honorable mention:
Michael Doherty, “The Marble Run”
2011
Michael Doherty, “Seven Great Flies for the Boston Metropolitan Area”
2012
Dave Karcynski, “Awake in the Moonlight: Notes at Hex Time”
2013
Richard Chiappone, “Requiem for a River Bend”
2014
Jerold Hamza, “Prose to Poetry, or Dance to the Music”
2015
E. Donnall Thomas Jr., “Rubies and Amethyst”
2016
Kent Cowgill, “La Bouchon Souris”
2017, 2018
No award given
2019
Jimmy Watts, “A Wet World That Burns”
Honorable mentions:
Richard Chiappone, “The Honeymooners”
Michael Doherty, “Les Poissons Toxiques”
Finalists:
Colten Braybrooks, “Osprey, the Fisherman”
Bob Linsenmen, “The Last Brook Trout”
Kristin Millgate, “The Wading Game”
Ben Moyer, “At the Heart of the Hollows”
Frank Sargeant, “Some Fish Make Rivers”
Tim Schulz, “The Manistee River Waltz”
S. Paige Wallace, “Learning to Mend”
2020
Alexander Benoît, “Blue Lines”
Honorable mentions:
David Gray-Clough, “The Best Fish I Ever Caught”
Michael Thane, “Grace Note”
Finalists:
Trigg White, “Caddis Flats”
Robert H. Miller, “Homecoming”
Jon Tobey, “The Mertrout”
Anthony Lavers, “A Small Act of Reverence”
2021
Jody Martin, “Simon’s Daughter”
Honorable mentions:
Mike Chalmers, “Solitude”
Paul Kennebeck, “The Lower Squall”
Paige Wallace, “Pretending to Listen”
Finalists:
Andrew Harris, “Eider in the Silence”
Jody Martin, “Fly Fishing with God”
Richard Landerman, “A Priest and a Promise”
Jim Bale, “Metamorphosis”
2022
Frank Sargeant, “A Dog Named Fish”
Honorable mentions:
Sarah Holly Bryant, “Vanity Plates”
Paul Kennebeck, “Western Waters, 2022”
Finalists:
David Gray-Clough, “The Leather Shop Man”
Richard Landerman, “How Bobby Crump’s Trout Won the Bronze Star”
Katie MacDonald, “How Many Anglers . . .”
Chris O’Byrne, “The Wedding Planner”
2023
Matt Powell, “Middle-Seat Meditations”
Honorable mentions:
Jacob Sotak, “The Cerulean Trout”
Thomas Walters, “Fixer-Upper”
Finalists:
John Humphrey, “Fish on the Wall”
Jon Tobey, “Crossing the Blue Ceiling”
Mike Toth, “Hope Truly Is the Thing with Feathers”
2024
George Rogers, Last Salad on the Gairezi
Honorable mentions:
Chris Bishop, “Blind Willie’s Pool”
Joseph Jackson, “How to Say Gila”
Finalists:
Moncrieff Cochran, “The Man from Leksand”
Mark Cudney, “From the Clear Waters”
Katie MacDonald, “Between the Snow and the Second Line”
Michelle Werrett, “Following Filleul”
David Wickline III , “Beginnings”