In this episode, fly fishing guide Jimmy Lampros describes a strange encounter with an unexplained light in Western Maryland’s remote Savage River forest.

Jimmy’s experience mirrors a passage from Harry Middleton’s incredible book about Appalachian brook trout fishing, The Spine of Time:

At once, angling broadens a man’s vision while often threatening to blind him. Beauty comes like lightning, spontaneous, brief, brilliant, dangerous, with a light or a motion or a shape that unsettles emotions. For a sharp instant, everything pulses with an electric-blue glow, a cold light, a light that is stark and casts no shadow.