Sunday, March 10, 2019

"One Man's River"

As children we have those moments when we say to ourselves " I've seen that before" or "I have been there" when in fact we were never "there" or we "never saw that".....As we get older we experience these same feelings and they seem to be more realistic and vivid. Just the other day I to had one of these moments when I saw someone I knew, only to find that was not the person I knew but in fact the person I was talking to had been to the same place where I remember him from. Please don't think I've flipped, but this does happen and it brings me to the reason for this post.



Several weeks ago I received this book from a reader of Small Stream Reflections. I placed the book on my desk and had planned to start reading it in the following days. I continued what I was doing before placing the book down and soon I found myself picking up the book and thumbing through it....I never put the book down. I read it from cover to cover. It was like I was the man who wrote it. I never in my life heard of the author, O. Warren Smith..until that day. The book never crossed my many paths in search of fly fishing reading material. When I think of the places, sites, and real old book stores I've visited I never saw anything written by this man. The way O Warren Smith wrote is very similar to what I write. They were musings, jotting down parts of life's happenings along a small stream. Some of what he wrote were so much like my writings. His love of the little stream he fished is so well expressed. Now this book was published in 1942, five years before I was born....






8 comments:

  1. I never heard of him either so I did what I normally do and that is search the web. Everything's on the web. Found at least 1 more that he has written, but got to all the places where I had to sign in (Facebook, Amazon, etc) and bailed.

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    1. Mark Kautz
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      Mark he has written four or five more books in the 1920's.

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  2. Alan,
    You are so blessed! First, your beautiful rod from Silk and Cane and now this charming and wonderful book! ".....You are entering another dimension" as Rod Serling used to say! The third blessing you are about to receive is a warm and rather early spring! This would be my wish for you my friend and for all of us really!
    We cannot wait to hear from you with both a rod review and a book review too!
    Dougsden

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    1. Dougsden
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      Doug I remember the Twilight Zone, Rod Serling now there was an interesting mind.
      The book I've read and it is like me living back at the time he wrote the book. It's a great read.
      Reports on the rod will come at a warmer time.

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  3. Darn, I hate it when someone talks about a good book. I just had to order it. LOL.

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    1. David-Mary Noll
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      David if you can find it by all means buy it. I loved it cover to cover.

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  4. It's a hard book to find. I believe it's actually a reprint of his earlier book "Musings of an Angler". Ken Callahan of Callahan and Company used booksellers, usually has a copy or two hanging around (but not at the moment)

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    1. mike
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      Mike you are correct. It was Musings of an Angler.
      It's worth the hunt to locate it.

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