Richard Formato

Richard Formato is an avid catch-and-release fly-fisherman from Wytheville, Va. When not on the water, he operates a small business there. Formato loves to fly-fish in his native Southwest Virginia because of the great water and wonderful people. He also loves to fish the flats and shallows of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic whenever work and weather permit. He is on the Department of Conservation and Recreation's board of directors and is a trustee of the Shenandoah National Forest and Skyline Drive.

Recent columns

• What about Bob?
• Notes from the Charlotte Fly Show
• A chance meeting
• A wish for Jack

• Column archive
• Talk fly-fishing

What about Bob? - 3/20/2006

Notes from the Charlotte Fly Show - 3/3/2006

A chance meeting - 2/15/2006

A wish for Jack - 2/1/2006

Not so Rusty - 1/21/2006

Stalking the gray ghosts of Andros - 12/30/2005

Stream of dreams - 12/15/2005

Tom Brown's essential fly box - 12/1/2005

Blazing the way - 11/16/2005

Catching Mr. Brown - 11/9/2005

Citizen Kaine - 11/3/2005

Unique name for a unique company - 10/24/2005

Good time for blue-winged olive fly - 10/11/2005

Permission, not forgiveness - 9/30/2005

Put and Take hardly sporting - 9/22/2005

Hashing out Little Stony - 9/9/2005

It is not the time - 9/2/2005

Meet the beetles - 8/26/2005

"Almost" Heaven - 8/19/2005

Summer's stimulating flies - 8/12/2005

Fishing an American icon - 8/5/2005

A warden's work in the wild - 7/22/2005

Influences - 7/15/2005

Hot fun in the summertime! - 7/7/2005

Where are the smallmouth? - 7/1/2005

Guess what rhymes with screamer? - 6/23/2005

Orvis is back! - 6/16/2005

In the shadow of J. Wysor's style and presentation - 6/9/2005

Get off my bass - 6/2/2005

Vanishing Virginia - 5/26/2005

Take a kid fishing! - 5/19/2005

Rough, tough fishing in Craig Creek - 5/12/2005

On the Cabin Creek Trail - 5/5/2005

Why TU? - 4/20/2005

Any great trout stream keeps its own secrets - 4/13/2005

Zippo - 4/7/2005

Stewarts Creek surprise - 4/1/2005

A heart in the sand - 3/24/2005

Reel Recovery - 3/17/2005

How about a lifetime ban? - 3/9/2005

The fee side - 3/5/2005

Show time! - 2/23/2005

What's HOT for 2005 - 2/16/2005

Uncle Fred - 2/9/2005

For the love of winter fly-fishing - 1/26/2005

Happy trout - 1/19/2005

May you always have tight lines - 1/12/2005

Lessons from the Little Stony - 12/7/2004

Casting in robust Davis Run - 11/22/2004

Johns Creek soliloquy - 11/16/2004

A Pigg in the park - 11/2/2004

Retreat on the Jackson - 10/19/2004

Trout fishing the river called Roanoke - 10/11/2004

Smith Creek downstream - 10/5/2004

Rainbows from macro to micro - 9/28/2004

Time for teaching - 9/22/2004

Bath to Highland and back with a fast-learning novice - 9/14/2004

Barbour's Creek - 9/7/2004

Hardy brookies make hike to Cornelius Creek worthwhile - 8/31/2004

Road trip to the not-so Little Schuylkill, Pa. - 8/24/2004

Smith River soaking - 8/16/2004

A different North Creek - 8/9/2004

Dreams come true for fighter pilot home from Iraq - 8/2/2004

On the Rapidan, knee-deep in history with a dry fly

Summer retreat to the Little Stony - 7/19/2004

Giant rainbows bask in sunny 'Maggie' - 7/12/2004

Bleached leech - 7/5/2004

Casting, lasting strategy for the Rose River - 6/28/2004

Revisiting old mountain streams - 6/21/2004

Pigging out on trout from the Pigg - 6/14/2004

Snapping at the Bullpasture - 6/7/2004

Little natives strike in Ramseys Draft - 6/1/2004

Pigg River ramble - 5/20/2004