by Jim Enger | Aug 10, 2009 | Creative Nonfiction
When I first got to know the Boardman River I had another, secret, name for it. My private name for it was the “Compromise River.” I called it that because the Boardman ultimately empties into the Grand Traverse Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan, right in downtown Traverse...
by Capt. Tony Petrella | Jul 3, 2009 | Creative Nonfiction
If you want to teach your wife or girlfriend how to shoot, simply put her into a pair of borrowed waders that force her to waddle around like a penguin. Then make her lurch around for six hours in a frigid steelhead stream in early March, sublimely confident the whole...
by Jim Enger | Jun 18, 2009 | Creative Nonfiction
Every Michigander knows that the lower half of his state is shaped like the back of a left-handed mitten. If you were to draw a line from the tip of the thumb on Lake Huron, straight west to the City of Ludington on Lake Michigan, you’d more or less divide the Lower...
by Joseph Meyer | Jun 10, 2009 | Casting, Creative Nonfiction
After teaching fly casting for several years now, I have found that my line of demarcation is about twenty years old. Younger than that and the metaphors that I use to teach fly casting are worthless. It must be a sign of my aging process but I am mystified that those...