Category: fishing

• October 25, 2023

  Salmon’s Envy

  I was talking to a salmon and thesalmon was talking back, he’s a friend of mine,about the value of oxygen andthe problem of gasping for breath once you’vestepped out of your element to walk inanother’s shoes . . . it occurs to me thata salmon speaking of sneakers is quiteabsurd, but there it is .…
• October 10, 2023

  Fly

  mountains, the placid water, sluggish atriver’s bend, the fly placed just right, quick flickof the wrist and timing is everything,the trout strike in the dying day . . . I watchedthe old man tie this lure, enchanted byhis fervor and curious how a twistof thread and wire becomes siren to theseriver dwellers. He’s gone now,…