Table of Contents
Preface vii
A Scholar of Worms 1
Shaping up for the Hunt 7
A Bit about My Writing Life 15
Big 23
$7,000 TV Historical Extravaganza 29
Wild Life in a Room with a View 35
Risk Assessment 47
The Forty-Pound Brown Trout 55
Bear Hunters 61
A Lake Too Far 71
The Chicken Chronicles 77
Secret Athlete 81
The McManus Principles 85
Basic Lying Made Easy 89
A Chainsaw Kind of Guy 97
The Lady Who Kept Things 103
September Song 109
The Longest March 115
The Stalk 119
The Horse in My Garage 125
The Tent 131
To Smoke a Steelhead 135
The Teachings of Rancid Crabtree 141
Christmas Shopping 147
Who Ate My Shakespeare? 151
Romantic Moments 155
The Canoe 159
The Writing of "The Green Box" 165
A Routine Fishing Trip 169
The Brown Pelican 173
Canoodled 177
Christmas Over Easy 183
Dog People 189
Finding My Roots 193
The Longest Three Miles 197
Scrabble's Powers of Observation 201
The Dark and Other Dangers 205
