They met at a poetry reading, but Ehor Boyanowsky and British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes became friends through their shared passion for fishing. Against the backdrop of the Dean River, one of the world's greatest steelhead rivers, the two men explored their mutual regard for the planet's wild places. Boyanowsky draws on personal correspondence, interviews and journal entries to recreate their encounters and to paint an intimate portrait of a lifelong outdoorsman, conservationist and artist. In these tales of male friendship and the primal act of fly-fishing, the reader gets glimpses of the "nature red in tooth and claw"; that drew Ted Hughes to Canada - and rekindled his love of the natural world. Ehor Boyanowsky, a criminal psychologist and professor at Simon Fraser University, has written extensively on conservation issues and is the co-author of The Pocket Guide to Fly Fishing for Steelhead. He lives in West Vancouver.