“Before the Rain”
Photo by Len Harris
By Larry Offner
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… a Joan Wulff fly casting DVD.
By Mike Sepelak
Twas the week before Christmas and down on the Haw
Not a fish was a’rising, the weather was raw.
The water was frigid and brisk was the air,
Too windy for fishing, but I didn’t care.
By John G. White
Two things a lodge owner will never do is trump you at pool nor admit he’s ever tasted a better battered bass or bluegill. The first is known as “lodge pool”; the second, diplomacy. Both are considered job security.
If you’re like me, and you are, you’ll run into the dude about mid-afternoon [...]
By Len Harris
As a young pup I was left to explore and to make my way on my own a lot. My sisters were quite a handful for my mother to keep track of. They ranged from age 3 to age 17. They were toddlers and young women. All of the problems of youth wrapped [...]
By Jim Witham
I slipped the key into the driver’s side door lock and twisted it to the left, expecting the click of the lock opening. No click. I twisted the key to the right. Still no click. Puzzled and a little concerned now, I waggled the key back and forth in the lock. Nothing.
I thought: [...]
By Mark Hollier
(A Sunfisher’s Diary)
It was a cool, crisp fall afternoon and the trees were blazing with autumn colors. This time of year puts me in a reflective mood. Nature is changing. The robust tapestry of spring and summer evolves into a colorful fall quilt that she pulls over herself for the big sleep of [...]
By Mark Dillow
The hum of the jet engines pushed me closer to my destination, a midwest city that was home to a customer. Business took me to a town only an hour away from the birthplace of my mother.
I was hopeful the meetings would conclude in time for me to make a pilgrimage to the [...]
By Richard Taylor
Ruben Leonard Ford, my father-in-law, was a wizard when it came to reading trout waters. He would let you fish ahead of him and take all the time you wanted. Then here he comes announcing as he goes just where all the trout in the stream are holding. Those pronouncements were followed by [...]
By Mike Sepelak
A time honored, traditional recipe. Good for both the body and the soul.
1 medium sized Colorado freestone river
2 lifelong fishing buddies, nicely aged and generously salt-and-peppered
2 large boxes of hoppers, humpies, and assorted terrestrials
1 flask of Kentucky’s finest
