Description
It doesn’t matter if you’re in the woods every other weekend or every other day. Outdoorsman or angler are broad terms and applies to a large population. However, the title does not encapsulate someone who frequently engages in either. Ultimately, anglers, hunters, hikers, etc., are ordinary people whose lives move from anecdote to anecdote, until life gets serious. An outdoorsman is not immune to failure, complex life decisions, nor are things simpler. Being on the water with a fly rod or in the alpine with a rifle does not provide answers because neither a mountain or a fish can talk. However, when life brings trauma, a fly rod can be the best weapon with which to keep fighting. Going Home is a memoir about fishing, without being just about fishing. It s about a man contemplating direction and his sense of home after he is jerked from his linear journey of a life spent chasing fish.
Jeff Lund, a freelance writer and columnist, writes for Sitnews and the Capital City Weekly. He is a contributor to Alaska Sporting Journal and California Sportsman. Jeff grew up in Klawock, Alaska and attended the University of Arizona in Tucson. He picked up fly-fishing partway into a ten year high school teaching career in Manteca, California, and shortly thereafter began writing an outdoor column for a local paper. Jeff ultimately succumbed to the pull of Southeast Alaska and moved back in the fall of 2013. He lives, writes and teaches high school English and journalism in Ketchikan.
