Story: A Fish Named Dave

Tim Schulz has an incredible story over in Hatch Journal a few fish he named Dave.

Sure, he named a fish. It’s named after Dave Delisi, the person who bought Tim a couple of rods at Sweetgrass years in the past. Tim named the fish as a result of he caught the identical on on a number of events. It’s a enjoyable, lighthearted story that we’ve all in all probability skilled ourselves at occasions. I’ve typically puzzled what number of occasions I’ve caught the identical fish, particularly right here on my native creek the place I fish a couple of days each week.

“Dave Delisi—who on the time served as my vendor, inexperienced grocer, and sweet man at Sweetgrass Rods—alluded to a brown trout whose attract had eroded my already meager capability for self-control,” Schulz writes. “What makes one fish stubbornly reject a fly one other will eagerly take, I’d ask at 3 a.m., hoping ten extra revolutions of the ceiling fan would launch insomnia’s grip on my consciousness. This quest to reply a patently unanswerable query had reworked me—an in any other case succesful man—right into a neurotic ninny.”

You’ll be able to learn the total story right here.