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THE SOUND OF WATER

THE SOUND OF WATER

An excerpt from "Letters to Trout Fishing in America"

Matt Smythe
Jan 24, 2025
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Wind River Cuttie. Photo by Mike Rice.

December 16, 2024

Dear Trout —

Addiction wears many faces, and the powerful aren’t even feigning sobriety as they bully this century’s manifest destiny into oblivion. Soon, water and wilderness won’t have any milk money to steal, so the powerful will take sneakers and hats, glasses and books, then tundras and bluewate…

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