Double Hook from Sierra Magazine

So I just received my latest Sierra Magazine, the May/June 2008 issue.  Two articles leaped from the pages like a (insert favorite fish here) hitting a (insert favorite fly/lure here) from the (insert favorite fishing water here):

Daniel Duane visits Alaska's waters, finding paradise regained in "Savoring Wild Salmon:"

IT WAS A QUIET TIME ON THAT BEACH in southeast Alaska, with the kayaks drawn up into the dune grasses and everybody gone for the day. Barefoot in the shallows, swimming in the cool water, sleeping in the sun, I watched gulls in the low golden light of the sea foam and little sanderlings higher up the wet sand, poking in the gold-green algae. I watched bald eagles come and go from their Sitka spruces, and I waited for the ebb tide when the creek mouth might drain and narrow and crowd a thousand pink salmon into an ever-tighter channel, so I could eat one.  more...

And Lou Ureneck, author of "Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-Fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska", reviews his catch of the best river DVDs, books and efforts:

Most of us who love rivers trace our passion to a stream. Mine was modest: a woodland brook that tumbled down a maple and chokecherry hillside and into the warm muddy river that flowed from an impounded lake. Standing barefoot and thigh-deep in that ice-cold current and gripping a fishing rod remains my most vivid childhood memory. The symbolism of the clear brook mixing with the muddy water along a fish-rich seam has fed my surface and subsurface consciousness for five decades.  more...

Enjoy!