Denizens of the Deep

By Rory E. Glennie

“Orange is the colour, my son, if you want to get coppers and quillbacks; yellow for Chinas; chartreuse for blackies; a touch of red somewhere in there too, helps.”  That was my remembrance of our chance meeting. 

Funny, I can’t recall his name or his face even though we chatted for over an hour about my new-found passion; he the sensei, I the young grasshopper. I’m sure there was more salient information that I should have retained, but I didn’t. Just those four short passages. They became my Rockfish mantra.