The Tug Is the Drug

About Chris Santella

Chris Santella is a freelance writer based in Portland Oregon where he resides with his wife and two daughters.  He is the author of 19 books including Fifty Places To Fly Fish Before You Die Fifty Places To Play Golf Before You Die Why I Fly Fish and Fifty Places To Drink Beer Before You Die (all Abrams) and Cat Wars:  The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (Princeton University Press with Dr. Peter Marra).  The Fifty Places series has sold over 500000 copies.   Santella is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Washington Post Trout Fly Rod & Reel The Drake American Angler and Fly Fish Journal.  His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker Wall Street Journal Travel & Leisure and Links among many other publications.  When hes not at his desk Santella loves to swing flies for steelhead on the Deschutes Sandy and North Umpqua Rivers and to front Catch & Release a four-piece rock band that plays original compositionsincluding a tune called The Tug is the Drug.