Letting Go of the One that Got Away

It’s never good to live life looking downstream for very long

Jeff Ikler
Aug 29, 2017 · 6 min read

You couldn’t exactly call what we were about to do “casting.” Standing on the edge of a creek that was maybe 10 feet across at its widest point, our guide instructed my father-in-law and I to flick more than cast our fly lines into the current.

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Personal career & leadership coach, fly fisher, space nut, writer, teacher - a river runs through it

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