Asheville's Rob Neufeld on a new book on fly fishing by David Joy
What once was sacred has become quaint. Take, for example, “the way of animal powers,” the phrase Joseph Campbell used to describe the hunter’s mindset. Today, getting into the head of an animal and having a kill-worship relationship with it seems exotic.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- The limestone streams of central Pennsylvania famously pour from the ground at precisely the cool temperatures favorable to trout. But on a chilly January mountain morning on Spring Creek, the brown trout waited for some warming sunlight to break through the clouds.
"Jacks Drift," by J. Wilfred Cahill, is a fantastic work in defining life in a most descriptive fashion as fly fishing being the catalyst for all the events so described in the pages of this work.
Bill Kies speaks to Seniority. Photo: Anne W. Semmes / CT Q: How long have you lived in Greenwich? A: All my life -- I'm a townie. Q: How do you think Greenwich has changed over the years?