Much of the fun of getting to know a new fishing buddy is the slow and pleasant process of asking questions about their life and answering questions about yours.

“Where’d you grow up?”

“What do you do for a living?”

“If you could have any superpower, what would it be?”

That’s the routine Tom Hazelton and I worked through during our first trip together when he asked a question I didn’t expect.

“Are you retired?”

Retired? I suppose I’m old enough to have children Tom’s age. Still, for that to have happened, I’d have had to muster the courage to speak to a girl—any girl—in high school. Because I didn’t develop that particular superpower until I’d made it through four years of college, both of my children are much younger than Tom.

Early middle aged? Maybe. Retired? No.

You can read the rest of this chapter from The Habits of Trout over at Hatch Magazine.


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