Good to see Michael Morrison's letter  today on fishing the Long Tom  River, and his reference to David Turner's great book on the river..
Eric, thanks for your note on fishing in the Long Tom for the crappie and catfish.  I wonder how many people have read the essays of Richard Brautigan on fishing the Long Tom-he wrote that the Long Tom was "in his DNA."
Brautigam, who grew up in Eugene, was a counterculture favorite and author of "Trout Fishing in America," though his writings about the Long Tom appear in others of his books.  He usually fished up the hills above Elmira, while others are more familiar with fishing  below the Fern Ridge Reservoir.