PAGE A10, KEIZERTIMES, MAY 3, 2019
Fishing! The tug is the drug
ATHLETE
Everyone should have a
passion for something. For
some it’s their vocation and
that’s laudable. For
me, it has always
been fi shing. I en-
joy my work but it
is a way to a means.
It all started
when I caught my
fi rst fi sh on a fl y
when I was 4
years old. I
don’t remem-
ber much as
a four-year
old but I
remember
that fi sh. By
my eighth year, I
was always count-
ing the days to
the next fi shing trip. I would
spend my time reading Field
and Stream or Outdoor Life,
gleaning all I could about an-
gling and faraway rivers and
lakes I could hardly imagine
ever going to.
There was always time to
walk down to Claggett or
Labish creeks to catch a cut-
throat. One-day trips to the
Little North Fork or Santiam
Rivers with my parents and
younger brother. These trips
were great but the week long
vacations spent on the Up-
of the Week
presented by
BRYAN HERNANDEZ
Senior at McNary High School
Sprinter -Track & Field
Hernandez won both the 100 and 200 meter
races at McNary’s dual meet with McKay on
Wednesday, April 24, and set personal-best
times in both events. He fi nished the 100 in 11.37
seconds and the 200 in 23.17
WHAT HIS COACH SAYS
“We’ve always known he’s had talent, but this
year, Bryan has come out and he has wanted
to work ... I’m looking for him to put himself in a
position to make it up to state.
— Frank Gauntz
McNary Varsity Track & Field Head Coach
per Deschutes or Williamson
River (in Klamath Coun-
ty) were the real adventures.
The occasion-
al weekends
spent on the
Metolius Riv-
er were special
and became
my
favorite
river to fi sh.
All these
ve n t u r e s
as a boy
led to my
passion for
fl y fi shing.
As I grew
older, I pro-
gressed from
want
to
catch lots of
fi sh to wanting to catch a big,
diffi cult fi sh. This journey has
taken me from casting to ris-
ing trout to swinging fl ies for
steelhead and salmon.
It is said that a steelhead
is a fi sh of a thousand casts.
The tug is the drug and I’m
addicted. Cast. Mend the line.
Let the fl y swing across, take
two steps down and do it
again. Some feel this boring
and futile. I will admit to the
futility at times but always
knowing that tug might come
at any instant. The adrena-
crossword
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line rush that follows makes
it all worthwhile. Being able
to land one of these fi sh, re-
moving the fl y and allowing
the fi sh to return to the river
is more than just satisfaction.
The wonderment of the river
and surroundings that make it
all possible is both exhilarat-
ing and cathartic.
So this is my passion. A pas-
sion of serenity and rhythm.
The peace of the surround-
ings and the motion of the
cast. Of being one with the
river and all it shares with me.
The river is like life, always
changing, never the same.
It has been a long jour-
ney from when I caught
that fi rst trout when I was 4
years old. The journey is what
should be appreciated and
learned from. In the follow-
ing months, I hope to share
some of my journey through
my fi shing life — good and
bad, cold and warm, wet and
dry. If you have a true passion,
it doesn’t matter.