The Oakland Casting Club

“It’s an unlikely landmark — a little bit of Mayberry in East Oakland. Even some neighbors aren’t aware that there are two world-class fly-fishing casting pools in their backyard

. Oakland Casting Club members say passers-by often guess wrong about the pools’ purpose, assuming they are reservoirs or trout ponds.” Peter Hartlaub, the pop culture critic for The San Francisco Chronicle

, writes about the unexpected history of the Oakland Casting Club.