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Article: A nice spot, but there's no trophy catch here
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- February 20, 2009
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Fly fishing is a gentle, esthetically pleasing sport that requires a considerable amount of patience and concentration to access its subtle and transcendent joys.
The same can be said for Michael Melski's The Fly Fisher's Companion, a growing-old drama that artfully hooks onlookers with its old-school humour and ageless wisdom. The Cape Breton playwright is best known for his more topical Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad and was named one of the 100 Canadians to watch by Maclean's magazine.
At Prairie Theatre Exchange, Melski introduces a pair of old guys who have come to the fishing lodge they built 50 years ago for one last trip to cast their lines into the Margaree River, which the gung-ho angler ...