Brian Clarke: "Transported, Metaphorically"

June 1, 2009 By: Marshall Cutchin

In the London Times, world traveler Brian Clarke faces the toughest question of all — What’s your favorite place to fish? — and decides that although sea run browns and glimmering bonefish flats are hard to beat, late May and early June on an English chalk stream take him even further away. “The water crowfoot and its flowers would be sweeping the currents like drowned hair. The mayflies would be hatching, the fish would be up and the surface would be punctuated with slow, oiling rings.”