Business Traveler

February 1998 – By Lori Lincoln

All addicts have their own code, so at first I was baffled listening to the anglers debate the merits of matching the hatch versus purple egg-sucking leeches and woolly buggers while we snacked on fresh oysters.

I’d only arrived at Boardwalk Lodge by float-plane a half an hour before, and already I was caught up in a heated debate about why steelhead bite or don’t. Over pre-dinner cocktails, I’d met a few frustrated fishermen who had logged hours on the local rivers and had nothing more to share than tales of nips on their flies.