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Great questions and great answers! Holly, have you read Ursula LeGuin's exceptional book Always Coming Home? If you're an Octavia Butler fan I think you might really like it -- it's one of the least-known but most beautiful of all her books. For those who haven't encountered it, it's a kind of dreamy speculative anthropology of a group of people living about ten thousand years into the future in what's left of the Napa Valley, but the anthropologist is from *our* time (well, the late eighties, when she wrote it). I think it's one of the most fascinating, complex, and imaginative takes on humans in a post-apocalyptic landscape ever written, especially in its envisioning of human-animal relations.
The Lower Colorado might have the big flathead that Hank desires...water is pretty clean there compared to most catfish water. They get huge eating sunfish and gizzard shad, and it's the only spot in CA where you can use bluegill as bait!
Great questions and great answers! Holly, have you read Ursula LeGuin's exceptional book Always Coming Home? If you're an Octavia Butler fan I think you might really like it -- it's one of the least-known but most beautiful of all her books. For those who haven't encountered it, it's a kind of dreamy speculative anthropology of a group of people living about ten thousand years into the future in what's left of the Napa Valley, but the anthropologist is from *our* time (well, the late eighties, when she wrote it). I think it's one of the most fascinating, complex, and imaginative takes on humans in a post-apocalyptic landscape ever written, especially in its envisioning of human-animal relations.
The Lower Colorado might have the big flathead that Hank desires...water is pretty clean there compared to most catfish water. They get huge eating sunfish and gizzard shad, and it's the only spot in CA where you can use bluegill as bait!