The writer and artist James Prosek makes drawings of the fish he catches in order to enhance his powers of observation.
By Matthew Orr on Publish Date April 18, 2015.To me, trout fishing, in particular fly-fishing, is many things, but above all, it is a conversation, a communication — with a creature to which we are connected by common ancestry not so very long ago (420 million years, give or take). The rod, the line and the hook are the tools of this communication, but the fly or lure is the ultimate translator between languages, between our world of names, structures, systems and hierarchies and theirs of instinct, impulse and experience.