Bear Paw Meanderings

A couple of weeks ago Keith Hanson, Duke Pursley and I were having a conversation in “The Mountaineer” office in Big Sandy about fish. Duke had said that he hoped it warmed up soon because he wanted to catch some of the fish in his privately stocked pond. I asked him if the fish were rainbow. He scoffed at the idea and said it was only brookies for him. He loves them about ten inches long and all the bones come out when the back bone is removed.

That led me to dream about our Clear Creek cabins of my youth. My Grandpa Lucke used a cabin called the White House on Clear Creek as his cabin. It wa...