This is about worms, flies, and cheeseballs, anchovies, sardines, herring, flashers, spoons, plugs, and jigs. It is about a boy's passion for the sport of fishing, the perils we sometimes face when we step out of bounds, and about a father who understood each adolescent is different, and who convinced my mother that the length of the leash for each needs adjusting accordingly. It is about the loss of direction, and an unsettled life after he was gone. Mr. Pat