Magic
"Or whipping its rough surface for a trout..."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Adirondacs
Red cheek and stripe. Hypnotic spots on a streamlined body. Nature's perfect predator and prey. I'm starting to believe that what I love most about these animals is the finding--the magic of making invisible things visible, and letting them disappear again.
posted by The Mad Fishicist | 1:20 AM
4 Comments:
You would have loved the latest Bobby Duvall movie, Broken Trail. There's a book--I'll be on the lookout for it for you. But in the movie he is captivated when happening upon some fly fishermen on a river along the trail in Wyoming. He asks them, what are you gentlemen doing? They respond, "fly fishing," and he takes a mental note. And then in the end of his life after riding hard throughout, he settles down in Wyoming and goes back to the river, learns how, and spends out the rest of his days fly fishing. Your description is beautiful.
What a beautiful description.
It made me feel I was right there with you.
I have truly come to appreciate and understand your love to fish.
Fish bite.
It really is a beautiful fish Isaac.
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