Downstream from Trout Fishing in America by Keith K. Abbott

Author:Keith K. Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9822252-6-4
Publisher: Astrophil Press
Published: 2012-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

Richard never abandoned that vision. Although he was one of the funniest and most companionable friends I have ever known, he never was a happy man, and for good reasons. The solitude and peace fishing provided was a godsend to his childhood, and his reverence for it never diminished. He loved trout fishing because it saved his young life and his sanity, many times, when his days and nights were truly awful.

The peace that trout fishing can bring was well known to me. My father and I fished every weekend he could, from opening day to closing, and together we caught, killed, and ate hundreds of trout all over western Washington. On summer vacations, we fished in British Columbia and all around national parks in the western states.

For my father, fishing a new lake or trout stream was as calming and reviving as prayer might be for others. Saturday or Sunday afternoons, as we drove back from a morning of fishing, he felt grateful. He had usually revisited his sense of wonder and his sense of humor at our luck or lack of it.

For Richard, fishing also renewed his lyricism, fueled his off-the-wall humor, and restored his pleasure in the unexpected bonuses of travel and life. In Trout Fishing in America, he describes the details of a productive day:

…traveling along the good names—from Stanley to Capehorn to Seafoam to the Rapid River, up Float Creek, past the Greyhound Mine and then to Lake Josephus.

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