Cutting the Tether: The Real Trout Bums

I think it was John Gierach who said that no one under the age of 30 can qualify as a trout bum. Well, Dutch Holland, USN Retired, has held the credentials longer than most, according to Randall Sumner in the Seattle Times. “He’d had five wives, he said, ‘and had bought more washers and dryers than Sears.’ He said that he was still mostly friends with his exes, except the last one who wanted his canoe. He cut it in half with a chain saw and left her half on the yard of his last real house in Las Vegas.”