The Vagaries of Current
Oct 02, 2018
3 minutes
By Galen Mercer
The first thing I learned from him was not to wade. The second and most enduring thing was not to cast. Anglers upstream and downstream might be wading, and others would certainly be casting, but Artie never began that way. Always, always, he began by standing on the bank, smoking ceaselessly, waiting and watching.
On a bank, never in the stream, he would survey the water, sometimes for half an hour, sometimes longer, looking for things that made no sense to others but made
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