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The complex relationship of water and land
Upper Owens River. Photo by McKenna
From our lofty human perspective, streams are simple things.
They carry water from one place to the next. They offer us places to quench our thirst, shores to sit a spell and ponder, holes for trout to hang out.
But we never see streams for what they really are: soggy, wedded partners with the world that hovers above them.
STOCK PHOTOTHE BIRDS AND BEES OF BROWNS
WHEN IT COMES RIGHT DOWN TO IT, trout aren’t all that different from people—especially when it comes to the way we reproduce. They do, after all, call pictures of anglers holding trout “fish porn.”
;)
By Mike McKenna
FROM THE WATERY PERSPECTIVE of the trout, a fly fisher is really just someone standing above the water waving a stick.
THE RESILIENT EAST WALKER RIVER
THERE WAS A TIME—more than one time in fact—when the East Walker River stopped running. Didn’t even crawl. It simply ceased to be.
Where once a river full of trophy trout trickled by Sweetwater Road (Highway 182), a silty arroyo of rotting rainbows and browns could be found.
But despite running dry twice, the East Walker River is alive and as well (if not better) than ever.
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