Chapter One – Plans up in smoke The air was thick with the weight of summer as Bryan gazed at the phone in disbelief, his heart sinking faster than the lead weights he had spent months preparing for his dream trip. He had waited four long years for this—The Zoo, an exclusive carp lake nestled deep in the French countryside, where legends swam beneath the still, mysterious waters. Now, it seemed as though the world itself...

Fate was in my corner when my wife, Linda, and I relocated to a community on the east coast of Florida, in anticipation of and several years before my retirement. We found a neighborhood between US Route 1 and the intercoastal waterway, only about fifteen minutes or so south of New Smyrna Beach. There’s a long, u-shaped street between the highway and the river, with a community dock jutting out into the river. We’re fully...

Parents always try to protect their children and keep them from making the same mistakes they did when they were growing up. That’s why I find myself in a quandary now, even as I'm looking forward to a major advancement in my career. My name is Justin, and my wife, Julie, and I are forty years old and living in California. I’m an aerospace engineering director and I was just offered a vice-president’s position with a comp...

Driving the roads of Montana state Fishing the rivers, creeks and lakes Stopping at fly shops, talking bout trout Checking his maps, making his route High in the mountains, deep in the trees Surrounded by beauty, sound of the stream Casting his fly, his mind is at peace Tug on his line, catch and release Sending her emails, including photos Standing in rivers, holding cutthroats Describing to her each place that he goes D...

"Hey Lils! I'm about to head out on the boat and do some fishing. Want to come?" "Sure! Let me throw my bikini on and grab a pole! I'll be out front when you get here!"I absolutely love fishing, so when my cousin Zack called me, I was not turning him down! It didn't hurt that he was really nice to look at, too. A day of fishing on the boat, with a blonde, tan, shirtless, hottie. I'm not complaining! Zack and I were never...

In December of 1960 I was selected to serve an 18 month tour of duty in Turkey and to be stationed at Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey where a fleet of our U-2 spy airplanes were based. You may or may not have heard of the incident when the USSR shot down one of these spy aircraft piloted by Gary Francis Powers a few months before I arrived at Incirlik. I've always enjoyed fishing for both the sport of it and to put f...

My name is Ed, and my wife Joan and I have lived in the Atlanta area for many years, ever since moving here after graduation from college. We are now forty-five years old, and live in a nice suburb, and both of our kids are in college. Joan and I met when we were both freshmen in college, and we have had a great sex life, at least up until the last six months. Joan was almost insatiable, and usually wanted sex every day....

"Let's not think about that yet. I just want to enjoy the time I do have you and don't want to think about goodbyes yet." "Me either love. So now what do you want to do?" he flashed me this childish grin, "let me guess... Fish?" "You got it. Good lord baby we know each other pretty well. Are you okay with doing some more fishing my love?" "Yes of course..." We get minimal clothes on and grab our poles. We throw our lines...