Where Have All the Eels Gone?

Ask the author and artist James Prosek — he knows

“Juvenile American eel” by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Northeast Region is licensed under CC PDM 1.0.

“A fisherman,” according to an old Russian proverb, “can spot another fisherman from far away.” This is true. And within the fishing clan there is a set of private yet shared moments that bond fishermen together in an almost spiritual communion. The explosion of spray and color when a big fish charges a topwater lure. The…