The Drake

Flyfishing Delirium

N A RECENT TRIP to British Columbia, I hooked a steelhead. The steelhead then became unhooked (this happens). But the encounter nonetheless left me very excited. So excited, in fact, that after semi-sprinting down to the next run, I entered the river several yards higher than I should have and attempted to wade through

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