It only seems apt to run the Stray Cast here.
After all, this Web log is named for the Stray Cast, which has snapped off the end of the outdoors column in the Sun-Times on Wednesdays since April 2, 2003.
Here's today's:
As much as I love them, putting Walter Jacobson and Bill Kurtis back together is like thinking we can go back to the days when lugging a bucket of perch off the Montrose Horseshoe was a snap. (Ditto for Terry Boers and Dan McNeil.)
Or like thinking I can still pull dawn to dusk wades without consequences.
I like the fact that it's still possible to do but don't like to face the fact that there is now a price to be paid.