<p>We begin Season 17 with a conversation about fishing the 17 year periodical cicada this past summer. We talk about big flies, big water and big trout. </p><p>For so many of us, it was the rarity of the event -- there’s no other chance for this kind of fishing, right here, in our home waters, for another seventeen years. That’s a big marker in time. Because when you look back that far, it seems like a whole different life. In truth, it’s was a whole different world all those years ago, without high speed internet on everybody’s phones.</p><p>Think about that. That’s how much changes in seventeen years. So you start to wonder what things will look like in 2042. Who will I be in seventeen years? And you kind of realize that you <em>cannot</em> repeat it again. It won’t be the same. Things will be different.</p><p>I think most of us see fishing as this thing we do — the trout are always there, the hatches come and go, and we’ll fish the Henrickson’s next year too. We’ll probably be out ...