Beneath the Surface: Angling’s Endless Journey
There had been signs, probably more than I wanted to see. Sometime around my midfifties, I began to…
Beneath the Surface
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Beneath the Surface: Redbands
A couple years ago, I was traveling with a journalist friend who was seeing the West for the…
Beneath the Surface: The Arroyo Seco
I moved back to Los Angeles a couple years ago after living in a part of New Mexico…
Beneath the Surface: Anticipation
Living in the San Francisco Bay Area years ago, the anticipation of a fishing getaway to the mountains…
Beneath the Surface: The Essence of Our Sport
What is it about fly fishing that has inspired countless writers over the centuries to attempt to convey…
Beneath the Surface: Light
By VPB The light broke on us as we dozed,six old guys, muzzy with scotch and sunafter dinner…
Beneath the Surface: ‘Splainin’ It, Yet Again
“Uh oh,” I heard a familiar voice say inside my head — the voice of Ricky Ricardo from…
Beneath the Surface: Damp Clay
The old man was losing a sense of himself. Clait simply didn’t know who he was anymore, and…
Beneath the Surface: Tubing
In my fly-fishing life, going on thirty years, float tubes have been a constant part of my experience…
Beneath the Surface: The Lonely Shore
Whoever it was who said that fishing is a disease and fly fishing its terminal phase must have…