Anglers Journal

Into the Wind

“Step forward while the light and shadows are still clear, the sun, low on the water, still steady. Enter the moment you seem to be living in.”
Carl Dennis

The full moon was a few days off, and steady 2-to 3-foot swells rolled over the empty point. I’m drawn to this long stretch of surf, sand, glacial debris and wind whenever cracks appear in my world.

I’d lost two friends this fall, and my earliest fishing mentor passed the previous year. I was starting to wonder if this was a random patch of

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