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The Sun Also Rises In The Pyrenees
It’s six a.m. on a July day in the Spanish part of the Pyrenees and I just left a beautiful inn with my backpack and fly rod to start a fishing day with my friend, Iván Tarin. There is no one on the streets. The temperature is cool but pleasant. We w
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Dear Dickhead
HEY, OLD FRIEND. I was standing by myself on the leeward side of a flat the other day and thought of you. The water was calm, without a breath of wind. Almost as if the quiet was too quiet, and I needed a disruption. I don’t usually write these kinds
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Largemouth Lair
MOM AND DAD were both farm kids raised in the Missouri Ozarks, Mom was among twelve siblings and Dad one of eleven. The aftermath of WWII eventually drew them and many siblings into the closest big city, St. Louis, for jobs and the beginnings of thei

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