Dan RodricksDan Rodricks is an award-winning columnist for The Baltimore Sun, and, over a journalism career spanning five decades, he has been the host of local and regional radio and television shows as well as The Sun's podcast, Roughly Speaking. His column, lunched in The Baltimore Evening Sun in 1979, is one of the longest-running in the U.S. and has garnered regional and national journalism awards. Over the course of writing some 6,000 columns, and in his broadcasting work, Rodricks from time to time revealed his love of nature and interest in environmental issues. Excerpts of some of his outdoors columns appear in Fathers' Day Creek. Rodricks lives in Baltimore and has been fishing with a fly rod for nearly 30 years. He won a national broadcasting award for a radio documentary about his home waters, the Gunpowder River, north of Baltimore. He has fished extensively in western Maryland and Pennsylvania, and in the Chesapeake Bay. Read More Read Less