Standard disclaimer: These stories may contain what at first glance seem to be exaggerations or inaccuracies. Those qualities often hover around river stories, like bees intent on collecting substance while inadvertently pollinating the imagination. I've never known a river man or woman who would not agree that sometimes a story unassisted will fill only ¾ of the glass and needs to be topped off with club soda in order that we might charge full price. Sometimes mere facts appear plain and will require a garnish, the verbal equivalent of a thin orange slice folded around a cherry and secured with a long toothpick, preferably a plastic sword.

Watch the bump.

Tom

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