“God damn it, I had paid, and paid big, to keep those bastards at bay. I let out a big whoop, in celebration and then deliberately made the longest cast I’d ever made, …which converted into another salmon in the air and then on the bank.”

https://mtstandard.com/news/state-and-regional/longtime-montana-artist-russell-chatham-dies-at/article_2df20acf-4c92-5dee-bac9-adc584af1ea8.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest

Russ was a man who stuck to his beliefs about fishing and art and living, and grew up fishing during times that he…” naively assumed would continue to happen.”

https://www.anglersjournal.com/columns/russell-chatham-dies-at-80?fbclid=IwAR0Sn9WG4tyPthS-ZmQveoNE6tVDfl6OA7gwb1M33xCliWkOnV5mbgcVG0I

But they didn’t. They came to an end.

Russell Chatham passed away yesterday in Northern California…he was 80.