I awake in the middle of a big, soft bed in a room that I don’t recognize – an omen of good adventure that I’ve known since childhood. The walls are planks of wood that smell of the forest even though they were milled over a hundred years ago. The early morning light slants into the room through a canopy of trees high above the window. It occurs to me that I am in a cabin, a lodge actually, in a forest far away from home. I am at Camp Brûlé, on the banks of the Little Cascapedia, on the Gaspé Peninsula… and I am here to fish for Atlantic salmon!
That I am here at all is stroke of fisherman’s luck, a small amount of cunning and great deal of generosity on the part of Thomas & Thomas Fly Rods and the staff at Camp Brûlé. Two years ago Thomas & Thomas fly rods introduced a new line of spey rods and held a contest to help them pick a name for the new line-up. I won that contest. Another guy won too. Both of us submitted DNA as a name for the new rods. So now here I am a trout fisherman and itinerant steelheader from the west coast, angling for perhaps the greatest game fish the Atlantic Ocean has to offer...
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