Anglers Journal

The Armchair Angler

Tributaries

By Ryan Brod

Islandport Press

Good prose is like a good cast: You feel it when the lure sails at the right angle, squeezing between the overhanging limb and landing in the plate of shadow beside the drowned log. It appears good and right, and at the same time difficult to replicate. How often does that cast find a limb?

Ryan Brod writes prose that finds its mark with

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