Gene Hill, dean of American outdoor writers, is an associate editor of Field & Stream and the author of eight books of essays on the out-of-doors. Prior to being with Field & Stream he was the executive editor of Sports Afield and a vice president, creative director of J. Walter Thompson.
Gene says he has trained and field trialed better-than-decent Labrador retrievers and a couple of middling English setters. And he has hunted birds and big game in a long list of places and is an eager, if not notable, clay-target shooter. Fly fishing takes up what time is left, especially in tarpon and bonefish water, unless there is a chance for Atlantic salmon.