John N. Maclean: Fishing Into the Twilight
Join us for our Speaker Series event featuring award-winning author John Maclean (son of Norman Maclean, The River Runs Through It) and his project Fishing into the Twilight, a substantial dive into the rewards and challenges of fly fishing in later years.
Setting off on a quest in old age is, like second marriages, a triumph of hope over experience. But giving up a sport like fly fishing, which has a vital spiritual as well as physical side, is self-defeating. True, you can't carry on a strenuous sport the way you did in younger years. One challenge of old age, however, is to find new ways to do the things you love. Fly fishing in old age has many rewards. You know the good spots, have more time to fish them, and more money to get there and back. The talk will visit streams from the Blackfoot River in Montana to Penns Creek in Pennsylvania that are subjects of articles. The plan is to keep writing articles and make a book out of them, a triumph of hope over actuarial tables.
Monday, May 12, 2025
6:00PM-9:00PM
