Friendship… is born at the moment when one man says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’ — C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves I had known Doover1 for several years, but it wasn’t until I walked into his faculty office in the microbiology building at the University of Georgia and he told
Author: Bill Hager
Homecoming on the Soque River
There I was, two weeks ago. Standing 10 feet upstream of one of the biggest rainbow trout I’ve ever seen. Had he seen me? Was he feeding? Even if he took my fly, did I have a chance of landing him in this small Georgia stream? I’ve always been intrigued by the Soque River, which
Walt Randall: ‘Speying for Love’
From Walt: if Hallmark were to make a Christmas movie about fly fishing, it might look something like “Speying For Love.” This story is a sequel to Bill Hager’s “The Christmas Trout,” which appeared on this blog last Christmas. When last we saw Marcy, she was standing in Willowemoc Creek near Roscoe, NY, flushed from
Squeezing It In
I’m aware of very few professions that are as demanding as being a professor at MIT. Those men and women do their research night and day, weekdays and weekends, year-round. Furthermore, they do it because they love it. So when my friend Brent, an MIT prof, said he was free to fish last Saturday, I