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POP CULTURE | RATE-A-RECORD | 70s ROCK N ROLL
Rate-a-Record-Vol. 18 — Forgotten Rockers.
The memory of Scottish rock n roll discovered in the Canadian mountains.
It’s an early July evening during my grade 11 summer, and I’ve returned to town after an epic day of fly fishing on my home river. Situated in the high alpine mountains of the British Columbia interior, the mining town is surrounded by slopes thick with evergreens cut by crystal clear trout waters at their base.
And although it’s only 20 minutes or less from my front door to the rushing waters, it takes only a hundred yards into the woods to entirely disappear from the civilized world. Then, you are left to your own devices facing nature in all her glory while keeping an eye out for one of her beasts.
A new family had recently moved to town, relocating from the broad, flat horizons of the prairie to our mountain paradise, and I met the man of the fam in our local fly-fishing shop; he was anxious to learn the sport and was enquiring about a local who might guide him to waters and how to coax from them the gorgeous Westslope Cutthroat Trout. It was a fortuitous arrangement. All I did was work and fish, and having a partner with a truck, meant I could explore the waters that lay waiting deeper in the…
