Gone Fishing in Ottowa

“A place where not only does a person have to trudge to work through malarial heat and bone-snapping cold, but must do so while enduring the indignity of a chest covered in plastic conference and ID badges—a look known as ‘The Full Ottawa.’ Was that why being on this stretch of river, just a long roll cast away from Parliament Hill, gave me such a dirty little thrill?” John DeMont takes perverse pleasure in casting a fly into waters that get nary a glance from the urban overprivileged. From The Walrus magazine.