There is a new book on the market titled Island Salmon Fisherman (Harbour Publishing), and it will be greatly appreciated if you would rush right out after reading this and purchase one for yourself, and several for your many friends. This is the third collaboration between Island Fisherman Publisher Larry Stefanyk and me, and yes, we are already planning to do another in the near future.

To whet your appetite, short excerpts from Island Salmon Fisherman will be published over the next few issues, but first a little history about how it all got started....

The creek is not far, and when fall rains arrive it becomes alive with cutthroat trout that will find its deeper pools upstream in the freshet. But it becomes even more so alive as its water changes from a trickling, lazy-as-a-dog-in-sunshine flow, to snarling white watery fangs that reach out to tear at that which has lain dormant for so many long months.

Its course and headwaters are still well treed right to its banks, so it holds the rain well. But there are times when the deluge so fully soaks this rain forest, that even it cannot absorb the water. This is when to be on that creek.

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