A Change of Plan By Papafsh As the day slips into evening wispy clouds, like grasping fingers, drag across the glowing sky, a weather change is coming and we’re taken by surprise. The once soft balmy breezes now are chased away to hide, by a cold and harsh wind blowing down the mountain from on high. We’ve come to fish these waters, with anticipation high, for the noble wary swimmers that beneath the surface lie. Rods of cane and hooks with feathers are the tackle we will try, and we see the morrow clearly, in our thoughts as though by eye. Made our camp along the river on the high ground where it’s dry, under over-arching branches of the Hemlock, Fir, and Pine.   Stillness now has seemed to settle on the creatures of the glen, the wind is growing stronger and the storm moves ever nearer giving each of us a chill, it is cold and getting colder, now the rain begins to spill. First a spit and then a splatter as the drops fall from on high, then a fearful clap of lightening sears the dark and brooding sky, as we watched with dread and waited, our campfire now has died. Oh! The hearts of all men waver in the power of natures might, their hopes and dreams suspended on such an awful night. No longer do we ponder on pleasantries ahead, the perfect cast, the drag free drift, or trout we thought to play, no our needs are now much simpler……….let us live is all we pray!  The thunder rolled, the lightening flashed and trees began to fall, and as they slammed into the earth, it shook us one and all. How long it seemed the black of night, before it turns to gray, as the dawning oh so sweetly comes, we greet another day! Once light enough we venture out, from ‘neath our soggy battered tent, to see the work of nature’s wrath through which we have been spent. We marvel at the forces so destructively arrayed, the river now a torrent no more fishing there, we say. We pack our gear, ‘least what is left, and head out on our way, but take this vow between us, we’ll return again…….someday.     Hatches Magazine Subscription Price: $6.95 for each issue The Premiere issue is ready for shipping & the Fall 2008 issue will be available September 1st. Hatches Magazine Subscription Price: $6.95 for each issue The Premiere issue is ready for shipping & the Fall 2008 issue will be available September 1st.