
Bourbon Out Of An Old Tin Cup
I felt like I had walked onto the pages of Trout Magic. There I was- casting into the fabled Frenchman’s Pond under the friendly guidance of Ernest “Woody” Wood, John Voelker’s son-in-law. Frenchman’s Pond – also known as Uncles – is a long narrow beaver flowage that appears in several of Voelker’s stories, a carefully guarded secret fishing spot. Voelker (always “John” to Woody, so even I started referring to him as John, as if I had known him, although I still think of him