A Sacrifice

The continuing saga of Capt. Christopher Garlington



The John Gone’s usually full of happy Captains taking shots between runs, playing poker, smoking cigars. The good life.

Not today.

On any other day, you strike out in any direction you’ll hook Marlin, Wahoo, Yellowfin, drink some beer, come back at sunset for a dockside picture.

But today we’re at each other’s throats. All hope bleached out by fifteen days without fish. Fifteen days of trolling, chunking and chumming. Fifteen days convincing our clients a shark’s as good as a Wahoo. Fifteen days without that beautiful, terrible sail vaulting out of the water. Fifteen days.

“The water demands sacrifice!”

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