Imagine a land more than a dozen times the size of Montana, a land of immense inland seas, oceans of uncut forests, and myriad untamed rivers filled with huge northern pike, arctic grayling, and char. It is also a land of rock and of ice that lies glistening beneath flickering northern lights, a place where grizzlies wander among isolated mountain ranges, where polar bears roam among herds of caribou on the tundra flats. This is Canada's far north, the place of Arctic Aurora.
John Holt is a writer living in Livingston, Montana with his wife, a photographer, Ginny. They spend much of their time traveling to out-of-the-way, little-known parts of Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon and Northwest Territories. While on the road they camp, fish, canoe, hike and photograph. Other interests include fly tying, cooking, the Chicago Cubs and reading.
Holt's 16 published books include the first title in the Wilderness Adventures Press series Flyfishing Adventures - Montana, Yellowstone Drift - Floating the Past in Real Time, Coyote Nowhere - In Search of America's Last Frontier, Arctic Aurora - Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories, Hunted: A Novel, Guide Wars, Knee Deep in Montana's Trout Streams and Chasing Fish Tales .
His writing has appeared in publications that include Contemporary Sportsman, The Flyfish Journal, Men's Journal, Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod & Reel, The Angling Report, American Angler, The Denver Post, Audubon, Art of Angling Journal, Field & Stream, Gray's Sporting Journal, Montana Magazine, and American Cowboy.
He's is currently completing a collection of essays on native trout species in Montana called Lunar Allure and researching a book on tactics for taking large brown trout titled Stalking Trophy Brown Trout for The Lyons Press.
