Wicked Trout

Muggla

No rest for the wicked

Trout bum

"No one under the age of thirty qualifies as a trout bum. The whippersnapper living along a stream, or travelling from river to river, isn't a trout bum because he isn't committed to a way of life - he's on an adventure. He hasn't actually rejected such encumbrances as a wife, children and house payments. He just hasn't gotten around to considering them yet. But the thirty or forty year old man (or, of course, woman), who commercially ties just enough flies, guides just enough clients or sweeps just enough floors so that he can spend the rest of his hours on the water is a derelict in the eyes of the world who should confess his sins. Better yet, he should put that confession in writing so that the rest of us can cluck over his misspent life."

Gary LaFontaine 1986