Below is the first paragraph of a story that I have started writing recently. As I am not a writer but more of a fisherman and hunter, I would like some opinions from other people just to see if anyone else might think this story could be interesting.

P.S.; Please, be gentle,.






?You need a good, sharp hook to get a good hook-set.? He said. That was the first thing Bill Rice ever said to me. It was also the best advice I would get in my early life. I was only twelve years old when I met Mr. Rice (Bill, as he would rather I call him), but he never made a difference when it came to age or skill or the quality of equipment being used. He was that way with all three of us to be truthful. And, so it was that in the early summer of 1992 that I started to learn about fly-fishing, and more importantly, about life.