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"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after."
Henry David Thoreau 

Volume I Issue 3 March, 2008
Shining Times
By Edward Laine
Wilderness to change lives forever.
Go! 3/08 (Fly Fishing)
Smoke from a Distant Fire
By Capt. Gary Henderson
What other things it carries may conjure magic...

Go!
3/08 (Fly Fishing)
Dry Run Creek
By Dan Sears
Now, boy, lift the rod now.

Go! 3/08 (Fly Fishing)
Hero Pictures
By Joseph Meyer
A bamboo Orvis rod, and a lot of courage.

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Of Raw Onions, Moon Pies and Muscadine Grapes
By Frank N. Musso
Rites of passage. Now and then.

Go! 3/08 (Fishing)
Sunday Sunrise Service
By Ron Snow
Go! 3/08 (Fly Fishing)
Volume I Issue 2 February, 2008
Thin Places
By Roger Emile Stouff
"It's thin there," he said. "Thin."
Go! 2/08
(Fly Fishing)
It's My Religion
By Capt. Gary Henderson
Church is in service. Reverence is due.
Go! 2/08
(Fly Fishing)
In Praise of the Black Gnat
By Colston Newton
It might be science, it might be all about blind hogs.
Go! 2/08
(Fly Fishing)

In Search of Water
By Larry L. Littrell
Some journeys begin with but a single bluegill.
Go! 2/08
(Fly Fishing)

Volume I Issue 1 January 1, 2008 
Shades of Red
By Captain Gary Henderson
Standing mid-thigh in the stained, brackish waters of the Indian River on Florida’s mid-eastern Atlantic coast, I cradle my fly-rod in my arms, the golden fly still in its keeper, and wait with growing anticipation as I watch to the east. It will be magical; it will be different than all before it and those yet to come.
Go! 1/01/08
(Fly Fishing)

Counting Coup
By Roger Emile Stouff
Lightning, jagged and spectacular, crashes from cloud to cloud. Magnificent and dazzling against the broiling black thunder heads, they leap like celestial panthers from fold to billow... Go! 1/01/08
(Fly Fishing)

Bud's Bayou
By Larry Offner
The ritual. It always started with a stop at Schweggman’s Supermarket on Friday afternoons, and the purchase was always the same: three dozen chicken necks.
Go! 1/01/08
(Fishing)

Bayou Bound
By Larry Offner
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Go! 1/01/08
(
Fishing)

Fish? What Fish?
By Debbie Offner
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Go! 1/01/08
(
Fishing)

Roger Stouff
Editor and Publisher
Gary Henderson
Associate Editor
Larry Offner
Associate Editor