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trout fishing

  • The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing. Read more

  • RE-Reading Rivers

    Today I turn 66 years of age. An age that I once thought of as old, but now of course view in an entirely different light. A few months ago, thinking about my brother Paul being gone and how when I think of him I always think about fly fishing, I looked at Sue and asked,… Read more

  • In the summer of 1984, I drove a 1964 Galaxy 500 (Deluxe Sport Coupe) 1713 miles from Dillon, Montana to Saginaw, Michigan with only one companion – a beat-up paperback edition of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America. The radio was original with the car. In eastern Montana and western North Dakota I could seldom pick… Read more