The Armchair Outfitter

“I like to park my old fish car by the camp perhaps an hour or so before sundown. Generally I enter the neglected old camp to look around and, over a devotional beer, sit and brood a little over the dear dead days of yesteryear, or perhaps morosely review the progressive decay of calendar art collected there during forty-odd years. And always I am amazed that the scampering field mice haven’t carried the old place away, calendars and all . . .”

- Robert Tarver, “Big Secret Trout,” from Trout Madness