Creek Running North

I haven’t read Duncan’s book. In my younger days, though, I found The Curtis Creek Manifesto an invaluable aid in helping me digest the experience of Northern New Mexico.

I’m old now, and my sight falls differently on the world.

Was this dude sentenced to “unwanted” Fishing Class, like being sentenced to Traffic School?

For fishing under the influence, or something?

Cause I really hate it when I’m sentenced to read books.  I feel like it should just be time served.

Is that review from Henry Raddick?

what bdl said.  the review is a prize-winner, though.  all that forced-fish-reading was not totally lost to the greater good of the easily-amused portion of humanity.

What’s this? More self-actualization achieved via the gratuitous maiming of countless innocent fish? Get with it, people! Sign on to the Fish Empathy Project now!

It’s time to get newspapers to ”either dump their fishing columns or relegate them to the crime and obituary sections where they belong”.

Sounds like an interesting read. And here I thought Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America would be the first and last tangentially about fishing in the Northwest “novel” I would read. (ignoring A River Runs Through It as being too explicitly about the fishing.)

I wish that I could get hold of the entire review from Fly Fisherman magazine which is excerpted on the back of my copy of Trout Fishing:

Reading Trout Fishing in America won’t help you catch more fish, but it does have something to do with trout fishing.

One of my favorite books, many years ago—I lost track of it, and now must go find and reread it.  Thanks for the reminder!

The cult accepts his grudgin apology.

Seriously, the world would be a better place if more people read The River Why