Mark Hume finds the perfect spot to cast a line and meditate on his life in ‘Reading the Water’
When he was just a tyke, Mark Hume lived on a farm in the Okanagan Valley where “a big Barred Rock rooster … attacked any perceived threat” to his flock of hens. “Whenever he saw me,” Hume writes in, “he charged, and I ran.” Then one day when the rooster attacked, the boy “blindly swung a stick, struck the side of his head, and knocked him cold.” When the creature regained consciousness, “he staggered a few steps, eyes rolling, found his balance, looked at me, and ran for the henhouse.
. Using fly fishing as a controlling metaphor and working in the environmentalist tradition – more like the disciplined Roderick Haig-Brown than the outraged Farley Mowat – Hume tells his life story from boyhood through marriage and fatherhood into late middle age. He does so without being cloying or self-indulgent and while delivering a restrained jeremiad: For god’s sake, people, we must stop laying waste to our environment.
Again, near Salmon Arm, Hume notes that in 1905, so many sockeye flooded up the Salmon River that “a fisheries officer described how the water level rose, lifting his boat, when a massive school of fish moved into the stream from the lake.” But then the settlers came and cleared the forests, removing the shade and so heating up the water.
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