The Master of Meander: Cross-Fishing
Reports of a hurricane approaching our Puerto Penasco rental condo closed schools, restaurants, and main street shops, blowing…
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The Master of Meander: Trolling for Monsters
It will be a soft late-summer night, breezy but warm. Swallows will swoop through a blood-orange sunset. Then,…
A Crime of Passion
“Why fly fish for carp?” more than a few still ask. Although the answer should be self-evident —…
The Master of Meander: Hoarders
A closer study of Jimmy’s home revealed an elegant riot — less a cabin than a plank-walled meeting…
The Master of Meander: Experts and Words
Experts abound. Some expound: educate, inspire, and encourage, or, as happens on an inexplicably popular cooking show, berate,…
The Master of Meander: The (D)Angling Conversation
The e-mail conversation had nothing to do with mental illness, originally. Robert Ketley — a name you’ve seen…
The Master of Meander: The Significance of Smaller Lives
Steve and I took a long drive recently to visit the favorite river we’d been avoiding since the…
The Master of Meander: Gibbous Moon Interrupted
Fishing doesn’t always require solitude and silence. Fishers do, sometimes, and I’m among those who occasionally need no…
The Master of Meander: Making Do
It’s a fair bet your first trout was bred in a concrete pond, fed pellets while growing up…
The Master of Meander: Owning Eureka
A friend dropped off a box of flies the other day. He’s a jeweler who likes close work,…