Murphy and His Law
© Tim Tipton 2021 Murphy and His Law "Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not waste so much time watching and waiting for the world to be perfect." --- Norman Maclean “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” ---- Murphy’s Law It started two days after Christmas and continued through the early portion of summer. What is IT? My sudden inability to catch fish and have things go wrong on fishing trips. Things I’ve never seen, at least not this much. It started on my home stream. The stream where I caught my first trout over 25-years ago. I took a new friend on his first fly fishing excursion, and we got skunked. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. It was one day and even the best anglers can have a bad day. It wasn’t the kind of day I was hoping for, but there was a lot more fishing to do. Over the next few weeks, I would return to Otter Creek and catch plenty of fish, including one day when...