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"Poetic singularity"

"Poetic singularity"

A shorter one, just touching on some great moments of fishing

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James Freitas
Dec 24, 2022
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In “Twenty-fish Days,” in his book of fishing essays, The Longest Silence, Tom McGuane reflects on some days chasing striped bass on the fly rod. One of the days is greatly successful. He has a “twenty fish day,” hence the title. I’ve had some of those myself. McGuane had such success fishing for stripers, he writes, “To say that it was like taking cand…

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